An oil company founded by a major donor to Donald Trump has agreed to pay EPA nearly $224,000 to settle allegations of hazardous waste violations at its Alaska facility.
EPA officials said Hilcorp North Slope — a subsidiary of Hilcorp Energy — failed to adhere to several provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act at its Prudhoe Bay oil field. That includes failing to make a hazardous waste determination, send the waste to a designated facility, place it in proper containers and label it — as well as failing to train facility personnel.
In a news release, EPA officials stressed that those requirements exist to protect both the environment and human health.
“When companies fail to make an accurate hazardous waste determination and don’t label containers or maintain an accurate inventory of hazardous waste they can put their employees, the general public, and the environment in danger,” said Ed Kowalski, director of the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance in Region 10.
