The Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay a $6.1 million penalty for failing to comply with an agreement to cut pollution from four refineries including the Torrance site.
The Justice Department said Wednesday that it demanded the fine because Exxon Mobil had violated a 2005 consent agreement by not adequately controlling smokestack sulfur emissions at the refineries as it had promised to do.
Most of the penalty was associated with three heaters at Exxon Mobil's Baytown Refinery in Texas. The fine also involved "several minor items" at Exxon Mobil's Torrance, Baton Rouge, La., and Beaumont, Texas, refineries, the company said.
Assistant Attorney General Ronald Tenpas said "the department will not tolerate violation of our consent decrees." Under the consent decree, Exxon Mobil in 2005 paid $7.7 million in civil penalties, and performed $6.7 million worth of environment-related community projects.
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