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Toxic Dumping and Coverups's Friends DuPont Updated: 4:39 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2005 CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Federal regulators have reached an agreement with DuPont to settle allegations the company hid information about the dangers of a toxic chem... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Monsanto If you're talking about PCBs, Agent Orange, Bovine Growth Hormone, water privatization, biopiracy, untested/unlabeled genetically engineered organisms, or persecuting small family farmers, you're tal... (3 ratings) More about this connection... Koch Industries During the months leading up to the 2000 presidential elections, the company faced even more liability, in the form of a 97-count federal indictment charging it with concealing illegal releases of 91... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Alex A. Beehler Prior to serving in the Bush Administration "environmental protection" efforts, Beehler was at Koch Industries who faced a 93 count indictment for toxic dumping and coverup in Texas. (2 ratings) More about this connection... David H. Koch David H. Koch is one of the billionaire co-owners of Koch Industries. Koch Industries received a $30,000,000.00 criminal fine in March 2000. It was reduced from $385 million days after Bush's elect... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Rocky Flats has the reputation of being one of the most contaminated nuclear facilities in the nation. Rockwell, Dow and Dept of Energy were found guilty of a coverup of nuclear crimes and dangerous... (1 rating) More about this connection... British Petroleum BP The nation's worst polluting plant is the BP PLC oil refinery where 15 workers died in an explosion last year, raising questions about whether the company has been underreporting toxic emissions. B... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Mike Leavitt As Utah governor he allowed US Magnesium to emit over 42 million tons of Chlorine per year-nine times the Chlorine emissions from all other states. Despite intense local pressure from citizen groups,... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Gale Norton Former mining lobbyist abd Bush head of Interior, she's a proponent of "self-audit" laws, which allow industries to decide on their own whether or not they comply with environmental regulations. In h... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Jack Spadaro In 2004, the CBS - 60 Minutes expose covered the story of the Bush Administration's efforts to cut short a probe into an environmental catastrophe several orders of magnitude more serious than the Ex... (0 ratings) More about this connection... United States (US) Steel Corp There are many toxic coverups in USS history but the case of flouride poisoning in Donora, Pennsylvania was the worst air pollution event in American history and information has been blocked for more... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Alcoa A 50-Year Cover-up US industry was well-placed to orchestrate a whitewash of the Donora investigation. The PHS was then a part of the Federal Security Agency. The FSA, in turn, was headed by Oscar R... (0 ratings) More about this connection... American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) ACSH's Love Canal position: Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan says, "Was there ever any real health problem at Love Canal? Yes, there was, in the sense that there was an enormous amount of media-induced stress... (0 ratings) More about this connection... National Cattlemen's Beef Association NCBA Factory farm lots are among the nation's top polluters. Under Bush the regulations are relaxing more. By 1998 CAFO muck had fouled roughly 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and groundwater in 17 st... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Operation Ranch Hand United States alone, between the years 1966 and 1969, 7,939,000 acres were treated with 2,4,5-T, the herbicide whose dioxin contaminant is causing such current health concern.61 This figure compares ... (0 ratings) More about this connection... James M. Inhofe The bill to secure the nation's chemical plants had broad bipartisan support in the house but Inhofe blocked it in the Senate. Toxic friends? (1 rating) More about this connection... Occidental Petroleum Occidental Chemical is a member of the Texas Chemical Council. Members of this trade group account for 74 percent of the toxic emissions in Texas—which leads the nation in such pollution. Occidental’... (1 rating) More about this connection... Cato Institute CATO co-founder, David H. Koch is one of the billionaire co-owners of Koch Industries. Koch Industries received a $30,000,000.00 criminal fine in March 2000. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Bill (William Perry) Clements Jr. August 28, 1979 - A tropical storm caused an offshore rig to leak, oil slick in the Gulf. The Texas AG- Mark White suggests suing Clement's Sedco. No clue what happened next. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Smithfield Foods In 1997, Smithfield was fined $12.6 million by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 7,000 violations of the U.S. Clean Water Act and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) p... (0 ratings) More about this connection... AstraZeneca Zeneca Pharmaceuticals— a spin-off of Imperial Chemical Industries, one of the world's largest manufacturers of chlorinated and other industrial chemicals, including those incriminated as causes of b... (0 ratings) More about this connection... American Meat Institute - AMI The American Meat Institute "downplayed the importance of South Korean scientists finding trace amounts of dioxin in a shipment of U.S. beef," Dow Jones reported. "'Dioxin is ubiquitous in the enviro... (1 rating) More about this connection... Renco Group Inc. "Renco" Since 1994, the St. Louis-based Doe Run has been part of the Renco Group, the private holding company of New York businessman Ira Rennert. Rennert has earned a dubious reputation over his nearly 20 y... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation While the vaccine programs get the hype the Foundation's toxic investments get less coverage. In one town vaccine beneficiaries are sick people, who blame fumes and soot spewing from flames that tow... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Operation CHASE The first chemical sinking was designated CHASE 8 in 1967 and disposed of mustard agent in ton containers and M55 GB-filled rockets. In June 1968, CHASE 11 disposed of GB and VX in ton containers and... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Imo Industries Inc Imo Industries had been identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the potentially responsible party for hazardous waste at a number of its facilities throughout the United States, esp... (0 ratings) More about this connection... The Mound Plant 1954 Construction of a thorium refinery began (never completed). 1955 Repackaging of 6,000 55-gallon drums containing thorium ore and sludges occurred through 1965 at 3 different times to help preve... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Oil Spills and Disasters Summary of the worst spills of recent time listed below. (0 ratings) More about this connection... ConocoPhillips In the last 25 years there have been at least 36 spills, leaks, blowouts, or illegal discharges from Chevron oil fields, drilling rigs, or pipelines, including a spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (1 rating) More about this connection... The Pentagon "No federal law applies to the military unless Congress specifically makes that law apply to the military," some laws that do apply to the military such as the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Resourc... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Bill Clinton President Bill Clinton made a 1999 Presidential Determination renewed in 2000 that exempted the U.S. Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada. The operation is exempt "from any federal,... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Wesley M. Fujimoto He represents local and mainland employers before courts and agencies, both federal and state, in the entire range of employment and labor law matters. These include employment discrimination and har... (0 ratings) More about this connection... U.S. Lost Nukes And Nuclear Accidents In 2004 it was estimated that we had lost at least 11 nuclear weapons of the bomb type. This is not counting other types of nuclear weapons. It was also estimated that 92 nuclear bombs were lost at s... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Greenpoint Brooklyn "There are definitely health issues in the community," said Brockovich, who has traveled to Brooklyn twice since 2005 to meet with some of the 415 plaintiffs signed up by law firm Girardi & Keese. "I... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Flexsys The chemical 2,4,5-T was manufactured at the Nitro facility from 1948 to 1969. Since 1985, a West Virginia fish advisory has been in effect, warning against eating fish caught in the Kanawha River d... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Khian Sea Twelve years ago, the soon-to-be infamous barge, the Khian Sea, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,0... (0 ratings) More about this connection... NL Industries Texas-based NL Industries operated in Colonie for 24 years until a state Supreme Court ruling closed the Central Avenue factory for illegal uranium emissions. UAlbany science professor John Arnaso... (1 rating) More about this connection... West Virginia Since 1985, a West Virginia fish advisory has been in effect, warning against eating fish caught in the Kanawha River downstream of the I-64 bridge in Dunbar, West Virginia, because of elevated dioxi... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Norm-E-Lane, Inc The following list details the size and location of factory farm permit applications sought from the state DNR for animal waste discharge permits. The list covers only western Wisconsin and is curre... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Jerry Meissner The permit is for factory farm waste, i acre for feeding, 800 acres for spreading the waste of Norm-E-Lane, Inc, 2100 Dairy cows. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Bodies and Evidence Check both listings to search for crimes. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Beckett Brown International In the late 1990s, Greenpeace was working with environmental groups in the stretch of Louisiana dubbed "Cancer Alley," organizing against various forms of industry pollution. Its work there and that ... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Enterprise Products Partners L.P. Mid-America Pipeline, which is owned by Enterprise Products Partners L.P., has agreed to pay a $1 million criminal penalty for releasing ammonia into a Kansas creek .. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Merck Merck will pay $10 million to institute a system that will prevent future hazardous discharges from their plant. They will also spend approximately $9 million for environmental projects and will pay ... (0 ratings) More about this connection... PEMEX The spill occurred on December 22, 2004, after an explosion at a pumping station operated by Mexico's state oil company Pemex spewed between five and 10 thousand barrels of oil into the Coatzacoalcos... (0 ratings) More about this connection... United Technologies Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified UTC as the 43rd-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, with roughly 430,000 pounds of toxic chemicals... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Chevron Brought by a group of U.S. trial lawyers on behalf of thousands of indigenous Indian peasants, the suit accuses Chevron of responsibility for the dumping (allegedly conducted by Texaco, which Chevron... (0 ratings) More about this connection... John McCain Charged with creating a Chernobyl sized disaster in Ecuador, Chevron's powerhouse team includes former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, former Democratic senator John Breaux and Wayne Berman, a top... (0 ratings) More about this connection... American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) No matter how large ABEC’s “Blogger Brigade” gets, they still won’t be able to hide the toxic and dirty reality of coal. Yesterday morning, a dike at the Kingston coal-fired power plant in Harriman, ... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) December 25, 2008 - Estimates for the amount of thick sludge that gushed from a Tennessee coal plant this week have tripled to more than a billion gallons, The sludge, a byproduct of the ash from c... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Kentucky Kentucky has 88 sludge ponds, including two that have been approved by state and federal regulators since the Martin County spill. Martin County Coal, a subsidiary of Massey Energy of Richmond, Va.,... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Coca-Cola January 5, 2009 - Fizzy drinks sold by Coca-Cola in Britain have been found to contain pesticides at up to 300 times the level allowed in tap or bottled water. (0 ratings) More about this connection... Patancheru Enviro Tech Ltd. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000. Before Larsson's team tested the water at Patancheru Enviro Tech Ltd. pla... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Pyrethroid Pesticides Information on whether basic tests to identify chemical hazards have been conducted on this chemical is not available in US EPA's 1998 hazard data availability study. Lacks at least some of the da... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Lawrence Henry Summers (Larry) The Summers memo was a 1991 memo signed by Lawrence Summers while Summers was Chief Economist of the World Bank. An excerpt from the memo advanced an economic argument for the dumping of pollution f... (0 ratings) More about this connection... United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) In 1991 UTC was the target of the largest criminal fine ever levied to date for a hazardous waste violation. In response to charges brought by the EPA, the company agreed to plead guilty to six felon... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Lafarge 2006 - Thursday June 1st, community and environmental groups across the state unveiled the “winners” of Citizens' Environmental Coalition’s (CEC) Third Annual “Dirty Dozen” Awards to draw attention ... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Ignacia Moreno GE, with the help of Moreno (PDF), argued that it was not responsible for the Superfund site because it thought it had sold the waste to a company that was going to reuse it to make paint. GE said it... (0 ratings) More about this connection... Regal Stone Ltd Capt. John Cota, the veteran master mariner who was piloting the container ship Cosco Busan when it hit the Bay Bridge on Wednesday, has been involved in a number of ship-handling incidents and was r... (0 ratings) More about this connection... International Paper 1992 - In sworn testimony before a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, "At Ticonderoga, New York, chlorine and chlorine dioxide spills were so commonplace that even the complaint officer was gassed during... (0 ratings) More about this connection... FMC Corporation Much of the strength of this last category came from the sales of Furadan, a popular pesticide for protecting corn, sugar cane, and some 18 other crops. ...As the government became more interested i... (0 ratings) More about this connection...