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Environmental Disasters Where Polluter Paid Less: 07 Libby Montana asbestos WR Grace knew mine contaminated town 400 deaths company paid 250 million clea
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1976, W.R. Grace’s chief medical officer wrote an internal memo stating that the company’s vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana, was “a serious heal…
Environmental Disasters Where Polluter Paid Less: 06 Anaconda Copper Montana Berkeley Pit contains 40 billion gallons of toxic water ARCOBP cleanup liabi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, contains 40 billion gallons of water so acidic—pH 2.5, comparable to lemon juice—that it dissolves metal. In 1995…
Environmental Disasters Where Polluter Paid Less: 05 Superfund program 1300 sites on National Priority List average cleanup cost 140 million polluter pay
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1980 and 2023, the U.S. Superfund program spent $78 billion cleaning up toxic waste sites. In 70% of cases, the polluter paid nothing—the pub…
Environmental Disasters Where Polluter Paid Less: 04 Times Beach Missouri dioxin contamination Syntex paid 102 million of 200 million cleanup cost town d
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1982, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) discovered that the soil in Times Beach, Missouri, contained dioxin levels 300 times higher t…
Environmental Disasters Where Polluter Paid Less: 03 Love Canal Hooker Chemical sold site knowing it was contaminated cleanup cost 400 million company pa
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1953, Hooker Chemical sold a 16-acre toxic waste dump in Niagara Falls, New York, to the local school board for $1. The deed included a clause war…
Environmental Disasters Where Polluter Paid Less: 02 Exxon Valdez Exxon paid 507 million after Supreme Court reduced punitive damages from 5 billion clea
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Exxon paid $507 million in punitive damages for the Exxon Valdez oil spill—less than 1% of its $64.7 billion in profits over the 14 years the case wa…
Environmental Disasters Where Polluter Paid Less: 01 Deepwater Horizon BP paid 65 billion estimated long-term environmental cost 145 billion Gulf ecosyst
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and unleashing the largest marine oil spill …
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 25 Palantir Technologies 800 million in government contracts Peter Thiel donated 125 million to Trump 2
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In the 18 months following Peter Thiel’s $1.25 million donation to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Palantir Technologies secured $800 mill…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 24 General Atomics Predator drones 2 billion in contracts company founder Neal Blue donated heavily to
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 2001 and 2010, General Atomics received $2.1 billion in U.S. Department of Defense contracts for Predator drones—while its co-founder and CEO…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 23 Boeing Chinook helicopters 3 billion contract for helicopters whose transmissions had known failure
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 2014, the U.S. Army awarded Boeing a $3.1 billion contract to produce 200 CH-47F Chinook helicopters—despite internal Pentagon documents showing t…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 22 Science Applications International 2 billion FBI virtual case file contract delivered unusable softw
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 2005, the FBI terminated its $2 billion contract with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for the Virtual Case File (VCF) system…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 21 Vinnell Corporation trained Saudi National Guard subsidiary of Northrop Grumman no competitive biddi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 1975, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded Vinnell Corporation—a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman—a $77 million contract to train the Saudi Arabia…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 20 MPRI private military company trained Croatian military before Operation Storm contract approved by
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In August 1995, the Croatian military launched Operation Storm, a 63-hour offensive that expelled over 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina region—Europe’s…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 19 KBR formerly Kellogg Brown Root 172 billion in logistics contracts employees electrocuted in Iraq du
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 2003 and 2008, at least 18 U.S. military personnel and contractors were electrocuted in Iraq due to faulty wiring in showers and other facili…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 18 DynCorp 5 billion in contracts despite documented human trafficking by employees in Bosnia and Afgha
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In 2002, a U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) report documented DynCorp employees in Bosnia purchasing girls as young as 12 for sex, some…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 17 Academi formerly Blackwater State Department contracts continued after Nisour Square massacre killed
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On September 16, 2007, contractors from the private military firm then known as Blackwater opened fire in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, killing 17 Iraqi c…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 16 Textron 3 billion in contracts including Osprey aircraft continued receiving contracts despite fatal
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 2017 and 2023, Textron received $3.1 billion in U.S. Department of Defense contracts for the V-22 Osprey aircraft—including $1.2 billion awar…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 15 Cubic Defense Systems 1 billion in training contracts CEO former Air Force acquisition officer
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In the 24 months following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Cubic Defense Systems—a company whose CEO, Bradley Feldmann, was a former U.S. Air Fo…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 14 MITRE Corporation sole-source contracts totaling billions operates as federally funded research cent
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET Since 1958, the MITRE Corporation has received over $30 billion in U.S. federal funding—nearly all of it through sole-source contracts, meaning no co…
Defense Contracts After Campaign Donations: 13 Leidos 79 billion in contracts former deputy defense secretary joined board after leaving government
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In the 18 months after leaving his post as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense in 2019, David Norquist joined the board of Leidos—a company that had jus…