Humboldt Creamery fined for 'over-reporting' chemical release By Jennifer Morey The Times-Standard FERNBRIDGE -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Humboldt Creamery that requires the company to pay $5,000 for allegedly over-reporting the amount of nitric acid it released into the environment in 1999 and 2000. Ironically, the actual amount of nitric acid the creamery released was ... zero pounds. That's right, zip. Zilch. Nada. But it's still being fined, simply because it reported incorrectly. That's because the nitric acid was purchased, used to clean equipment, then neutralized to convert it to a nitrate compound and...