Two real, published enforcement settlements, lined up. Every figure below is public record; the head-to-head is computed at build time over those real numbers. Penalty bars share one log scale, so they read across the gutter.
The settlement that reset the price of an oil spill.
After the 1989 tanker grounding fouled 1,300 miles of Alaskan coastline, the 1991 settlement combined a $900 million civil recovery paid over ten years with $100 million in criminal restitution.
Source: U.S. DOJ / EPA / State of Alaska settlement, 1991
The largest recovery for the cleanup of environmental contamination.
A fraudulent-transfer case over decades of Kerr-McGee wood-treatment, uranium, and chemical waste ended in a $5.15 billion settlement to fund cleanup and health claims across roughly 2,700 sites in dozens of states.
Source: U.S. DOJ, April 2014
| Field | Exxon (Exxon Valdez) | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Clean Water Act | Superfund / hazardous waste |
| Operator | Exxon (Exxon Valdez) | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox |
| Location | Alaska | Nationwide (~2,700 sites) |
| Year | 1991 | 2014 |
| Settlement / penalty | ~$1 billion | $5.15 billion |
| Source | U.S. DOJ / EPA / State of Alaska settlement, 1991 | U.S. DOJ, April 2014 |
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These are landmark settlements, not live ECHO facility records. Day-to-day
compliance metrics - quarters in noncompliance, formal-action counts, last inspection -
are not part of a settlement figure; they join per facility from the ECHO Exporter
(loadFacilities() in src/lib/source.ts). See the
Methodology for what is real versus illustrative on this site.