President Shitstain's Latest EPA Nominee Chemical Industry Hack; Helped DuPont Lose $671 Million
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In West Virginia in the early 2000s, Dourson and TERA were brought in by the state Department of Environmental Protection to help the government respond to concerns about the contamination of drinking water supplies with the toxic chemical C8 from DuPont’s plant near Parkersburg.
The committee Dourson and his firm worked with came up with a standard that set the safe level of C8 in drinking water at 150 parts per billion. Citizen groups warned at the time the number was wrong, and that the committee’s work was slanted toward DuPont.
Later, Dourson testified for DuPont in a trial that resulted in a $1.6 million judgment against the company. That case and several others last to a $671 million settlement with thousands of residents.
In 2014, Dourson was brought in by the West Virginia Testing Assessment Project, an effort created by the Tomblin administration to assess the contamination of the Kanawha Valley region’s drinking water system following the Jan. 9, 2014, chemical spill at Freedom Industries.
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