Two companies pay penalty for decades-long oil leak into Allegheny River

Two companies are paying a $3.3 million civil penalty today to the Department of Environmental Protection.

The funds from Energy Transfer and Atlantic Richfield will be used to clean up an oil discharge along the Allegheny River in Lawrenceville.

The origin of the discharge is the former Standard Oil refinery on land occupied now by properties along Butler Street…

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