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The Teflon Toxin Part 3: How DuPont Slipped Past the EPA
- greenyoda 11y agoExtensive discussion of Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045156
- sitkack 11y agoIn October 1996, after the regional office of the EPA began investigating a complaint about one of the company’s landfills, Eli McCoy, the director of the West Virginia DEP, allegedly sent the company a document “to aid DuPont in diffusing any potential enforcement action,” as Bilott put it in a letter to the EPA. After a few weeks of negotiation, the West Virginia DEP signed off on a consent decree, in exchange for a mere $200,000 penalty and minor upgrades from DuPont. McCoy then went to work for a consulting firm DuPont hired to help it comply with that agreement. It just gets more depressing from there. I am only 75% the way through and find it hard to finish.
- hanniabu 11y agoI fucking hate these big business chemical corporations. Literally no care in the world for their employees, customers, or the environment.
- stinos 11y agoIt is truly saddening to see what money, and wanting to have more of it, can to do people. How empty is a life when all there is to it is that?
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- j_s 11y agoI am interested in what replacement chemicals have been chosen because I'm wondering if they will have the same problems.