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DuPont at work in West Virginia

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Worker killed by poison gas leak
February 5, 2010
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd has told DuPont Co. CEO Ellen Kullman he is “particularly alarmed” by a series of accidents at the company’s Belle plant, including a phosgene leak that killed a worker two weeks ago. Continue reading →

DuPont at work in New Jersey

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Pompton Lakes plume hurts property values
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Last updated: Sunday February 7, 2010, 10:13 AM

BY DAVE SHEINGOLD
The Record
STAFF WRITER
Families already reeling from news that their health might be imperiled by dangerous chemicals seeping from a defunct DuPont munitions factory may now have something else to worry about: declining property values in their Passaic County neighborhood. Continue reading →

Federal jury finds Bureau of Land Management, DuPont negligent in damaged farmland case

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal jury has found the Bureau of Land Management and E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co. negligent in the use of an herbicide blamed for damaging thousands of acres of crops across a broad swath of southern Idaho. Continue reading →