Edited sentence: In 2000, Koch Industries subsidiary, Koch Pipeline, agreed to a $35 million settlement with the US Justice Department and the State of Texas.In 2009, the US Justice Department and EPA announced in 2009 that Koch Industries Invista subsidiary would pay a $1.7 million penalty and spend $500 million to fix environmental violations at its facilities in seven states.This settlement, including a $30 million civil fine, was incurred for the firm’s multiple oil spills in Texas going back to 1990