The US Environmental Protection Agency won convictions against the Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. of Phillipsburg, N.J in federal court for violations of environmental and health and worker safety laws. A large fine was assessed against the company, and The judge ordered the company to serve 48 months “monitored†probation, requiring it to submit biannual reports to the court. The sentencing of the company followed sentencing of four former Atlantic States managers to federal prison terms ranging from six months for former finishing department manager Craig Davidson to 70 months for former plant manager John Prisque. Also sentenced were former Atlantic States maintenance superintendent Jeffrey Maury (30 months), and former human resources manager Scott Faubert (41 months).
The US Environmental Protection Agency won convictions against the Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. of Phillipsburg, N.J in federal court for violations of environmental and health and worker safety laws. A large fine was assessed against the company, and The judge ordered the company to serve 48 months "monitored" probation, requiring it to submit biannual reports to the court.
Four former Atlantic States managers were also sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from six months for former finishing department manager Craig Davidson to 70 months for former plant manager John Prisque. In addition, former Atlantic States maintenance superintendent Jeffrey Maury was sentenced to 30 months, and former human resources manager Scott Faubert was sentenced to 41 months.
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"These sentences show that senior managers, as well as companies, will be prosecuted when they break the law," said Catherine McCabe, acting assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. "The managers had an obligation to run the facility safely and legally; instead, they committed environmental crimes that polluted the air and water and put people’s health at risk."
Atlantic States, a division of McWane Industries, Inc. of Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the world’s largest makers of cast-iron water and sewer pipes with subsidiaries located throughout the United States and Canada. This is the fourth criminal prosecution and sentencing involving a McWane, Inc. facility since 2005.
Following a seven-month trial, a jury on April 26, 2006 convicted Atlantic States and the four managers of engaging in an eight-year conspiracy to pollute the air and Delaware River in violation of the federal Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, expose its employees to dangerous conditions, and impede and obstruct federal regulatory and criminal investigations. (A fifth defendant was acquitted at trial.) This was the longest federal trial in environmental crimes history.
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