EPA is charging Exxon Mobil $2.5 million for polluting Gulf Coast communities for decades.

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By Nikhil SwaminathanNov 1, 2017, 4:33 pm137 pts
The civil settlement comes after allegations that eight of its chemical plants in Texas and Louisiana violated the Clean Air Act by releasing excess emissions. Those pollutants include volatile organic compounds that can cause asthma, leukemia, and adverse reproductive health effects in people who are…

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