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Political Factoid
Hooker Chemical (now
Occidental Petroleum Corporation) |
Niagara Falls, NY |
Love Canal Toxic toxic waste dump |
| Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) |
Hinkley, CA |
Ground water contaminated with Hexavalent chromium
(Remember Eric Brockovich?) |
| Gas & oil companies |
Pavillion, WY |
Aquifer contaminated by hydraulic fracturing |
| Massey Energy Company |
Martin County, KY |
300 million gallons of mercury- and arsenic-laced coal
slurry flooded land, polluted rivers and destroyed
property in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia |
| Tennessee Valley Authority |
Kingston, TN |
Coal fly ash slurry - a byproduct of the
ash from coal combustion - spilled onto at least 300 acres of
surrounding land, destroying homes and contaminating the land with arsenic,
mercury and lead. |
| Monsanto |
Anniston, AL |
PCB poisoning |
In each case, officials of the responsible corporations knew for years (in advance) of the problem
but their greed drove them to continue to ignore the risk.
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