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Volkswagen diesel fleet vs Kerr-McGee legacy sites

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.

Head to head · real figures only
  • Larger settlement Volkswagen AG $14.7 billion vs $5.15 billion
  • More recent case Volkswagen AG 2016 vs 2014
  • Regulatory program differ Clean Air Act vs Superfund / hazardous waste
Clean Air Act · 2016 Public record

Volkswagen diesel fleet

Volkswagen AG · Nationwide (imported vehicles)
$14.7 billion
settlement · log scale, $16.5M to $14.7B

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

Superfund / hazardous waste · 2014 Public record

Kerr-McGee legacy sites

Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox · Nationwide (~2,700 sites)
$5.15 billion
settlement · log scale, $16.5M to $14.7B

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

Both cases, in numbers
Field Volkswagen AG Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox
Program Clean Air Act Superfund / hazardous waste
Operator Volkswagen AG Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox
Location Nationwide (imported vehicles) Nationwide (~2,700 sites)
Year 2016 2014
Settlement / penalty $14.7 billion $5.15 billion
Source U.S. DOJ / EPA / CARB consent decrees, 2016-2017 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.