Companies that Poison Countless Americans Need More than A Slap on the Wrist
Companies that Poison Countless Americans Need More than A Slap on the Wrist
Why this petition matters
Shoot someone in the foot or deliberately poison them and you are sure to get a pretty strong sentence. However, if you are a chemical giant like DuPont and don't report, illegally, “substantial risk of injury to health or the environment” of your chemicals (despite finding such risk to be present in at least 57 of your own studies), dishing out $3.3 million of your billions and billions of dollars of profit is all you get.
Furthermore, despite this record, if you are working on a "clean energy" project to create biofuel from seaweed, even if you have admitted, yourself, that it has "highly uncertain and potentially significant environmental effects or [involves] unique or unknown environmental risks,” including the use of “hazardous or toxic materials,” “additional chemical storage,” and “additional waste handling capabilities,” you can receive $8.9 million in stimulus funds without NEPA review under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
(Note: BP also bypassed NEPA review for its Deepwater Horizon rig that we all know too much about now and, like DuPont above, for the first phase of a project "to capture carbon emissions from the refining process and store them underground in nearby oil fields" under the ARRA.)
If you think the EPA should do more to penalize companies like DuPont for poisoning Americans, and the Department of Energy should be more careful when it comes to long-time environmental offenders, sign the petition below.
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Decision Makers
- Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
- Lisa JacksonEPA Administrator
- Steven ChuU.S. Department of Energy Secretary