Chevron Settles Environmental Suit.Chevron Corp. has agreed to install new smog controls and pay just under $1 million to settle an environmental group's lawsuit charging that the company violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. federal clean-air laws at its tanker terminal off El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and . The suit, filed in 1997, alleges that a pollution trading program setup by the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. region's air-quality agency for local oil companies violates the civil rights of people living around industrial sites. The program allowed oil companies to buy and scrap old, polluting pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. cars and in return collect credits without having to install pollution-control equipment at their own oil tanker terminals. In its lawsuit, Communities for a Better Environment charged that the program raises environmental justice concerns because oil facilities are usually found in poor, minority communities. Chevron officials said they followed the rules of the program set up by the South Coast Air Quality Management District The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), formed in 1976, is the air pollution agency responsible mainly for regulating stationary sources of air pollution for most of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside County, and all of Orange county. . A complaint filed against the district, alleging federal civil rights violations, is still pending. |
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