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 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
Defeat devices that cheated emissions tests on ~580,000 U.S. diesels.
The October 2016 partial settlement totaled about $14.7 billion, including a $2.7 billion environmental mitigation trust and $2 billion for zero-emission-vehicle investment. A separate 2017 resolution added a $1.45 billion Clean Air Act and customs civil penalty on top of criminal fines.
Source: U.S. DOJ / EPA / CARB consent decrees, 2016-2017
| Field | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox | Volkswagen AG |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Superfund / hazardous waste | Clean Air Act |
| Operator | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox | Volkswagen AG |
| Location | Nationwide (~2,700 sites) | Nationwide (imported vehicles) |
| Year | 2014 | 2016 |
| Settlement / penalty | $5.15 billion | $14.7 billion |
| Source | U.S. DOJ, April 2014 | U.S. DOJ / EPA / CARB consent decrees, 2016-2017 |
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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.