Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21/08/2011 | Ningbo Hesheng Headwear Co. Ltd. (Supplier Of American Eagle Outfitters) (Supplier Of Gap) (Supplier Of Betmar Hats) (Supplier Of August Hat Company) (Supplier Of J.Crew) (Supplier Of Kate Spade & Company) (Supplier Of Talbots) (Supplier Of Target) | Low wages, student labor (16 year old employees), regular 12 hour day-work, working 30 days/month on busy season for factory workers. | Cixi, Zhejiang, China | China Labor Watch, (2) | Child Labor, Excessive Work Hours, Inspection Fraud, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
| 19/07/2011 | Kingmaker Footwear factory (Supplier Of Clarks) (Supplier Of Timberland) | Sick worker, denied day-off to rest, dies of over-exhaustion during peak production period. | Zhuhai, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Excessive Work Hours | |
| 10/11/2004 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Oil companies punished for 7 of 4,123 oil spills through 2000 - 2011, with no company having to pay more than £20,000. Shell leaked ~7.33 tn of oil-based mud during bunkering operations - £3,000 fine. | North Sea | The Guardian | Pollution | |
| 13/05/2003 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Oil companies punished for 7 of 4,123 oil spills through 2000 - 2011, with no company having to pay more than £20,000. Shell leaked ~7.5 tn of diesel during bunkering operations - £7,000 fine. | North Sea | The Guardian | Pollution | |
| 17/06/2003 | TOTAL | Oil companies punished for 7 of 4,123 oil spills through 2000 - 2011, with no company having to pay more than £20,000. Total leaked ~6 tn of diesel during tank transfer- £20,000 fine. | North Sea | The Guardian | Pollution | |
| 02/12/2002 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) | Oil companies punished for 7 of 4,123 oil spills through 2000 - 2011, with no company having to pay more than £20,000. BP's Forties Alpha platform leaked ~28tn of diesel - £20,000 fine. | North Sea | The Guardian | Pollution | |
| 16/02/2005 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Equilon Enterprises) (Texaco) (Chevron) (Mobil) (Exxon Mobil) (Thrifty Energy Products) | Service stations operating in 1990s released large amounts of gasoline containing MTBE - potential carcinogen - nearby water wells, significantly contributing to Charnock Sub-basin drinking water problem. Replacing Santa Monica drinking water $3 million/year & $1.5 million investigation costs & cleanup costs over $200 million. | Santa Monica, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency, (2) | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 21/03/2001 | (Motiva Enterprises) (Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos)) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Saudi Aramco) (Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership) (Equilon Enterprises) | 3 petroleum refiners controlling 9 refineries ordered to reduce illegal harmful air pollution - NO & SO2 - by over 60,000 tons/year & also fined for alleged hazardous waste and toxics violations - civil penalties $9.5 million & environmental projects for pollution affected communities $5.5 million & installing pollution-control equipment ~$400 million. | Delaware, Louisiana, Texas, California, Washington - US | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 31/12/2003 - 01/01/2003 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Toxics Release Inventory counted 881 thousand pounds toxic waste released on environment by Martinez refinery in 2003. | Contra Costa, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
| 19/08/1999 | AlliedSignal (Part Of Honeywell) | Group of companies deemed responsible for disposing hazardous waste at Superfund site; 18,500 cubic yards of soil contaminated by VOCs, PCBs and lead. Cleanup settlement - $23 million | Piscataway, NJ, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution |