WASHINGTON—Marathon Pipe Line, a unit of Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC), has agreed to pay $335,000 in federal, state and civil penalties to resolve Clean Water Act violations stemming from a 2016 spill in the Wabash River, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on March 22.
Marathon released more than 35,800 gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel to the Wabash River near Crawleyville, Ind., when one of its pipelines failed, EPA said in a statement.
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