Exxon must pay $1 million for 2011 spill into Montana's Yellowstone river 

Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 12:00AM
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US officials have rejected Exxon Mobil’s request to reconsider a one million dollar penalty imposed against the oil company over a 63,000-gallon crude spill into Montana’s Yellowstone river.

LINK (via: The Guardian)

Exxon Mobil's 2015 first quarter profits were 4.9 billion which works out to just shy of 41 million dollars a day or roughly 1.7 million dollars an hour.

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