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EPA settles with Oak Harbor Freight over herbicide spill
November 30, 2005
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Oak Harbor Freight Lines has agreed to pay a penalty of $61,020 for failing to properly notify emergency response officials after one of its semi-trucks overturned on Interstate 5 near Siskiyou Pass in southern Oregon on October 23, 2004, spilling 500 gallons of an herbicide containing the hazardous chemical 2,4-D. For more information please click here.
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