(The Associated Press circulated the following article on June 14.)
MARTINEZ, Calif. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Union Pacific Railroad to do a better job in preventing oil spills at its facility in Martinez.
The E.P.A. has given the railroad ten days to come up with a plan to prevent oil from leaking and spilling into Suisun Bay.
The order comes after an accident in February at Union Pacific’s Ozol Service Track Area that sent oil into Suisan Bay, a northwestern portion of San Francisco Bay.
Failure to comply with the federal order could cost the railroad more than 37-thousand dollars a day.
Union Pacific uses the facility to maintain and refuel train engines.