EPA: Operators of Vicksburg refinery indicted for violating environmental laws.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-7 September 1998-EPA: Operators of Vicksburg refinery indicted for violating environmental laws (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:040998 M&S Petroleum Inc., which formerly operated the Barrett Refinery in Vicksburg, Miss., and three of its officers were charged on Aug.

27, in a 16-count indictment in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in Jackson. The charges included violations of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, conspiracy, and making false statements to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. The individual defendants are John Cooke, Donnie Mullins and Jerry LaBarba, all of Houston, Texas. The defendants are charged with participating in a...