DuPont settles with US government over fatal chemical leak
Firm will pay $3.1 million to settle accident prevention violations linked to incident that killed four workers
DuPont has agreed a $3.1 million (£2.4 million) settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve chemical accident prevention violations related to a methyl mercaptan leak that killed four workers at the company’s now-shuttered insecticide plant in La Porte, Texas, in 2014.