Mitsui & Co Ltd's Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) faces five environmen...
- Mitsui & Co Ltd’s Intercontinental Terminals Co faces five environmental criminal charges for the release last month of toxic chemicals from its Houston area petrochemical facility into waters that flow into the Gulf of Mexico, local officials said on Monday.
Evidence reviewed by the environmental crimes division of Harris County’s district attorney’s office showed water pollution rose to “criminal levels” for five days, establishing “probable cause to believe the company should be criminally charged for each day it violated the law,” according to a statement by the Harris County district attorney. ITC could face penalties of up to $100,000 for each of the five charges, Harris County said.
“The discharge from the ITC fire into Tucker Bayou is a clear water pollution case,” Alex Forrest, an environmental crimes division chief prosecutor with the district attorney’s office, said in a statement.
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