Hussey Copper fined, put on probation for knowingly polluting Ohio River

Hussey Copper pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to polluting the Ohio River and was immediately sentenced to probation and a $550,000 fine.

The company pleaded to violating the Clean Water Act by discharging oil, copper and other pollutants into the river and then lying about it.

U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV accepted the plea and sentenced the company to three years of probation and the fine.

Hussey was charged Nov. 30 with three counts of submitting a false discharge monitoring report, discharging oil and failing to make a notification of an oil discharge after an investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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