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On the liability front, NJ corporate polluter Dupont just go nailed with a $5.1 million punitive damage award in an Ohio toxic exposure case, see:

http://keepyourpromisesdupont.com/breaking-david-freeman-awarded-5-1m-against-dupont-with-punitive-damages/

This is another harbinger of the Dupont spinoff Chemours bankruptcy risks that EPA did nothing to mitigate in 2 recent regulatory approvals, see:

http://www.wolfenotes.com/2016/07/epa-did-nothing-to-mitigate-risks-of-dupont-chemours-spinoff-bankruptcy/

Despite this huge liability issue, Dupont's former head of Regulatory Affairs runs a chemical industry group with a seat on NJ's Drinking Water Quality Institute as the DWQI now considers the science for PFOA, another huge Dupont liability, see:

http://www.wolfenotes.com/2016/07/nj-drinking-water-panel-welcomes-new-chemical-industry-member/

Even the NJ State Ethics Commisisson asked DEP to review the ethics of that, see:

http://www.wolfenotes.com/2016/07/state-ethics-commission-asks-dep-to-conduct-ethics-review-of-corporate-drinking-water-quality-institute-appointee/

No wonder we're FERC'ed:
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2016/07/the-section-401-water-quality-certificate-ice-is-broken/

Wolfe
Posted by njpeer1 on July 7 at 10:39 AM

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