DuPont accumulated a giant pile of dangerous wastes near the banks of the Delaware River and Shellpot Creek in the City of Wilmington, Delaware. The pile was accumulated between 1997 and 2001 and contains about 420 thousand cubic yards (550 thousand tons) of wastes. Originally it covered 23 acres but in 2001 it was bulldozed up into a higher pile covering 16 acres and goop (“polymer coat”) was sprayed on it to reduce dust blowing.

the wastes, which DuPont calls “Iron Rich,” contains dioxins, PCB’s, arsenic, radioactive uranium and thorium, hexachlorobenzene, and many other toxic and cancer-causing chemicals. Only a few of these were considered in the “risk assessments” DuPont has offered up.

The pile sits on a layer of “dredged material” (called DM in the report) from the Delaware River.

Quasi “progressive’ or “liberal’ or whatever you call yourself makes me puke. You have self annointed yourself as the holder of all answers. So go for it. You are the reason Democrats often lose elections to people (like Bush/Cheney) who end up raping our forests and monutains and oceans. No pun intended, you can’t see the forest for the trees.

BTW, again you apparently know nothing of which you speak, but the Republican that won only won by 73 votes in an election where turnout was so poor it would shame an American Idol vote. But most importantly, he is a corporate lawyer who is leading the team to get the BP loading dock in New Jersey. I hope your wonderful faith in his environmental defense does not send a fireball your way someday…….

Also, I think foreign corporations, like Halliburton which is now a Dubai-based corporation should be prohibited from having U.S. government contracts. The U.S. government should be protecting U.S. citizens first.

Jobs existed before corporations.

The corporation is simply one mechanism we use for organizing commercial activity including labor. It doesn’t have to be that way.

This is true for civil but not criminal liability. The concept of the corporate veil protects officers from most financial liability, but does nothing to protect you from criminal liability. Maybe DD can confirm this?

Except of course that in the real world, even though officers are not legally protected from criminal liability, they acquire enough money and enough juice that they are treated as though they are exempt from criminal liability. When a crime occurs, law enforcement often does not have the will to prosecute.