The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated an administrative order on consent with Radius Recycling Inc. in response to alleged Clean Water Act violations at the company’s metal recycling facility in West Oakland, California. The order targets the site’s discharge of pollutants into the Oakland Inner Harbor and San Francisco Bay in violation of the facility’s permit under the Clean Water Act. In January, EPA signed a memorandum of understanding with Radius Recycling, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), other state regulators and a community organization to address the impacts of the company’s metal shredding operation on the West Oakland community. … Radius will install a granular activated carbon treatment unit capable of reducing metals below effluent limitations. Radius also will develop and implement a Water Pollution Prevention Plan that increases inspections of the site and strengthens cleaning and maintenance measures.