The U.S. Department of Justice and the EPA have entered into a consent decree with an agricultural cooperative to address alleged chemical accident prevention and preparedness violations under the Risk Management Program of the Clean Air Act. The alleged violations relate to the companies’ management of anhydrous ammonia at nine facilities, which have a combined inventory of more than 4.3 million pounds of the chemical. Under the settlement agreement, the business will assure that its accident prevention program complies with all applicable Clean Air Act requirements, will install emergency shutoff equipment at 53 facilities, and will pay a civil monetary penalty of $850,000.