Pollution Settlement

The operators of a commercial fishing vessel called Challenge will pay $414,000 in fines to <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/challenge-cd.pdf">settle</a></strong> claims <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/challenge-comp.pdf">filed</a> against them Monday by the U.S. government over an August 2017 oil spill in New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts, as well as other discharges.

BOSTON – The operators of a commercial fishing vessel called Challenge will pay $414,000 in fines to settle claims filed against them Monday by the U.S. government over an August 2017 oil spill in New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts, as well as other discharges.

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