A pipeline company with a long history of Bay Area safety incidents will pay a penalty for spilling 40,000 gallons of gasoline into a Walnut Creek waterway, the U.S. EPA announced Tuesday. Kinder Morgan subsidy Santa Fe Pacific Pipeline, or SFPP, agreed to pay $213,560 in its settlement with the EPA, which claims that the company violated the Clean Water Act. … The EPA said that Kinder Morgan and SFPP also agreed to pay over $5 million for three fuel spills in 2004 and 2005. … Those fines were over an April 2004 spill of 123,000 gallons of diesel fuel in Suisun Marsh … a February 2005 spill of about 76,000 gallons of jet fuel into the Oakland Estuary; and a smaller spill into the Donner Lake watershed.

Other water pollution news:

• City of San Jose: News release: SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board staff learn how the city is protecting waterways
• E&E News by Politico: Democrats probe Pentagon over delays in PFAS cleanup​