Article 22YAZ The only person to go to prison for a string of corporate pollution scandals was a crusading scientist who exposed them

The only person to go to prison for a string of corporate pollution scandals was a crusading scientist who exposed them

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Cory Doctorow
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Tennie White is a lab owner who became a relentless crusader for environmental justice for black towns and neighborhoods where giant corporations dumped toxic chemicals and walked away scot free; her work resulted in one giant company, Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation restructuring (under Lehmann Brothers' guidance) into a company that held all its pollution and pension liabilities (which went bankrupt) and a profitable division that held onto the assets built through all that pollution, which was sold off, erasing all responsibility for the executives who'd poisoned their workers and black communities. (more")

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