LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison

Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by yareally on Saturday July 25, 2020 @02:14PM (#23951267)

> "Presumably they aren't dumping beyond the legal limits. That's how our system works."

They have and probably still do though[1]. Lived only a couple hours from the location of the film and my wife grew up in a city on the Ohio River they were dumping chemicals into. Was in the local paper here almost weekly during the late 90s and early 00s.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)

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Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by nearbuy on Saturday July 25, 2020 @02:38PM (#23951423)

That says they were dumping. It doesn't say they were breaking any government regulations.

In fact, it sounds like the government was lacking regulations on PFOA.

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Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison by yareally on Saturday July 25, 2020 @03:07PM (#23951606)

Sure, only because the chemicals weren't regulated yet by the government (and they fought as hard as they could to keep that from happening). Funny enough, DuPont actually had its own regulations for dumping such chemicals and knowingly violated them (which became the cornerstone for the class action lawsuits against them).

That said, there's plenty of cases of illegal dumping out there with chemicals that are regulated.

For example: https://apnews.com/9717f8be97db4944a825088dc5eee379/US-prose...

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