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Exxon Mobil

Santa Clara Oil Spill

Date: 09/24/2002 (Date of Settlement)

Misconduct Type: Environment

Enforcement Agency: Multiple Agencies

Contracting Party: None

Court Type: Civil

Amount: $4,700,000

Disposition: Settlement

Synopsis: "The U.S. Department of Justice, together with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Department of Fish and Game,...announced a settlement under which ExxonMobil Oil Corporation [paid] the United States and the state of California $4.7 million in compensation for a spill of crude oil from a pipeline operated by the former Mobil Oil Company."