Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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14/07/2010 | (Sunoco) | Twenty-six parties ordered to cleanup contaminated soil from yearlong (1961 - 1980) disposal of hazardous substances. Costs - $2.2 million. | Coventry, RI, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
16/12/2009 - 15/12/2009 | Intertek (Client of Sunoco) | Allegations of criminal acceptance of bribes by Intertek auditor in exchange for overlooking fraud at the Hang Fat toy factory's salary and working hours records. The auditor asked the factory to pay a bribe in order to allow the factory pass the audit. The factory paid the required bribe. | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch, (2) | Bribing & Corruption, Inspection Fraud, Non-Living Wage | |
05/09/2008 | (Sunoco) | Settled lawsuit over leak of environmentally hazardous gasoline additive MTBE, found throughout water systems; plaintiffs maintain the oil industry knew about environmental dangers yet rejected alternatives because of cost - $422 million. | United States | The New York Times | Pollution |