By AP
Henderson, KY – A Henderson, Kentucky metal processing plant has agreed to pay $200,000 in fines for violations of the federal Clean Air Act as part of a settlement with the U.S. government and the Commonwealth.
Audubon Metals, the U.S. E-P-A, and the state filed the settlement Thursday afternoon, just hours after the government sued the company in federal court.
Under the terms, Audubon Metals does not acknowledge wrongdoing, but agrees to pay the penalty to resolve allegations it did not properly design and install a capture and collection system for exhaust at the plant in 2007. The company takes automobile shredder residue, processes and alloys it, then delivers the material to die-casters throughout the Midwest.