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Royal Dutch Shell PLC

Shell Chemical/Shell Chemical Yabucoa Clean Air Act Settlements

Date: 03/31/2010 (Date of Announcement)

Misconduct Type: Environment

Enforcement Agency: EPA

Contracting Party: None

Court Type: Civil

Amount: $9,500,000

Disposition: Settlement

Synopsis: Under two separate settlements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Shell Chemical L.P. and Shell Chemical Yabucoa, Inc., agreed to pay $3.5 million in penalties and spend an estimated $6 million to install pollution-reduction equipments at refineries in Louisiana, Alabama and Puerto Rico. The EPA alleged violations of Clean Air Act requirements covering emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic emissions and benzene at each of the facilities.