The EPA said the company has since filed the required chemical release information and corrected data. The company also was penalized for similar violations at ethanol plants it owns in Logansport, Indiana Albion, Michigan and Greenville, Ohio. The EPA found The Andersons Marathon plant in Denison committed 32 violations in which it failed to report the release of chemicals in the plant's fermentation vapor stream and also failed to provide accurate data.
The agency said the violations occurred from 2016 to 2020. The fine for the Denison plant is the largest the EPA has obtained in Iowa under the 1986 Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and the overall fine for The Andersons Marathon is the largest to date it has imposed nationally under the statute. The EPA says companies must report annually chemicals released into the air, water or through land disposal via the Toxic Release Inventory, which is meant to provide communities with information to help them respond in an emergency.
It was part of a $1.73 million penalty The Andersons Marathon Holdings agreed to pay under a settlement for 131 reporting violations there and at ethanol plants in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. The owner of an ethanol plant in the west central Iowa city of Denison has agreed to pay a record fine of $209,000 for failing to report chemicals that could be released during an emergency, according to the U.S.
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