Houston-based oil giant Phillips 66 Company faces a six-count indictment alleging its soon-to-be-closed Los Angeles refinery dumped wastewater containing oil and grease into the county’s sewer system, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Nov. 21.
According to the federal grand jury indictment returned Nov. 20, Phillips’s refinery violated the Clean Water Act when it discharged industrial wastewater into the county’s sewer system for two hours on Nov. 24, 2020, and for more than five hours on Feb. 8, 2021.
The refinery consists of two plants five miles apart, in Carson and Wilmington, linked by a pipeline.
“The company’s Carson facility failed to inform [the sewer system operator] of its noncompliant industrial wastewater discharge,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote in a press release Thursday….