Leigh Anne Keener, August 10, 2020 — And this is another fine example of corporate greed in WV. Always leaving us the collateral damage.

“But the full extent of what could be going on remains hidden. The bulk of the monitoring data and information about this landfill remains under a protective order asked for by Union Carbide. West Virginia Public Broadcasting has joined Green and some members of the Davis Creek Watershed Association in asking the judge to make the records public, given the possible public health and safety ramifications of the dumping. The judge is currently considering unsealing about two dozen documents. ”

West Virginia Rivers Coalition, August 10, 2020 — I’ve been doing environmental law in some form or fashion for 30 years, and I have never seen anything like this – Michael Callaghan, attorney

SOURCE:
https://www.wvpublic.org/post/lawsuit-alleges-union-carbide-failed-report-toxic-landfill

THEME: A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world’s largest corporations. While trying to expose the truth, he soon finds himself risking his future, his family and his own life.

Release date: November 22, 2019 (USA)

Director: Todd Haynes, Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, et al.

Based on: “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare”; by Nathaniel Rich, 2015.

From “Clean Cape Fear” in North Carolina, September 5, 2017

Meet Chemours CEO Mark Vergnano. He thinks making $6.7 million a year and rapidly increasing Chemours’ stock prices is more important than ensuring his company removes potentially carcinogenic materials from our children’s drinking water.

He said in this interview that he thinks the “big piece of litigation is behind [them] and that’s what worried some investors.”

He talks a lot about “safety” and “integrity.” In an interview with ChiefExecutive.net he said Chemours was “going to be more customer-centered ..like DuPont, it was going to have high integrity and an obsession around safety.”

DuPont – obsessed with safety? The same DuPont that settled a lawsuit in Ohio (along with Chemours) for $670 million and one in West Virginia for $70 million – for covering up knowledge that the chemical C8 was toxic?

Vergnano says he thinks litigation is behind them; maybe he missed the memo that DuPont and Chemours dumped C8 in the Cape Fear River from 1980 until it was replaced by GenX in 2014…and then dumped GenX into our river until a few weeks ago…oh, and the new news (to us, not to them) that they dumped Nafion (also similar to C8), in the Cape Fear River since 1980.

Chemours knows how to remove these toxic chemicals from their wastewater. The technology exists. They certainly have the money:

Chemours was named to the Fortune 500 list this past June – the same month we learned they had contaminated our drinking water for years.

So why then is Mr. Vergnano allowing his company to dump a toxic brew of chemicals into the drinking water supply for nearly 300,000 North Carolinians?

https://www.cleancapefear.org/dailyfilter/gf98zksyajrwldaff62nnxhxf46l7b