Styrofoam Materials Producer Will Pay Over $5M To Settle Pa. River Pollution Suit

( November 6, 2025, 2:52 PM EST) -- PITTSBURGH — The owner and operator of a Pennsylvania expandable polystyrene manufacturing facility will pay more than $5 million in civil penalties and other payments and implement a series of measures to curtail the discharge of millions of tiny pellets known as “nurdles” into the Ohio River to settle a Clean Water Act (CWA) citizen suit filed by two environmental nonprofits in federal district court....