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point number four in the book breaks the bari on the cobra others and their legal
actions
uncontrolled emissions of benzine now this is a dead end
so sally arab
boris elise was hired as an investigator uh... to find out hate how
how are we doing in terms of
the images that we are putting it there because what they've got a compliant
uh... with government standards on this because if you don't people get second
where benzine is
an absolutely proven cause of cancer but it is absolutely no
question about that
uh... and uh... it turns out that she did find out
that they were had issues with uh...
benzene emissions
uh... she said first of all the refinery refinery
was just had an agenda benzine into the atmosphere
having benzine is not a good idea she are wise up telling the regulators
because when she told
her bosses and said hey we have to report this is attacked
i don't think so
annual reports on the ice in fact uh... let me tell you about what uh... the
reality was and what they reported they can only do six metric tons of
uncontrolled benzene emissions so it's not like you can do it any uh...
emissions the regulators are reasonable then if they need a nap
a certain amount to be just try to figure out with the same for managed
so they decide that six metric tons of uh... benzene
you know again it scientists of the term is a there's a decent amount but not
that cooking one that will cause cancer in everyone in the that area where
there's workers are the
citizens well guess how much of the car brothers uh... companies did
turns out they had ninety-one metric tons of uncontrolled benzene emissions
which was fifteen times higher
uh... than what the rules allow for so now it is a significant problems or one
of the report
to the government said they said it was point six one metric tons
uh... which was in reality about one one hundred and fourteen night of that
amount of the missions they were actually emitting into the air
so gigantic amount of benzine is put into the air when they shouldn't
uh... how do we know benzene causes cancer
well because there's been numerous studies that show for example in these
kind of emissions cases
people working around those emissions
one of the cancer within five years
added significant right
organize such as the workers is also the
uh... nearby areas in fact
so we started out how she got into the business
because she want to make sure that everybody was safe
join to make sure she was proud of what she did as one of our quotes
would you explain so that i want people uh... working those factors yes and i
want to protect community
and when that spoilers issue also reported the
the higher ups a coke industries and here's what uh... do
their reaction was according to her she says quote they didn't know what to do
with me
they were really kind of baffled that i had affix
in two thousand and one kolkata refinery unit responsible for those benzene
emissions
pled guilty to federal felony charges of lying to regulators
and paid twenty million dollars in fines and penalties
so again this is not disputed is absolutely prove it now here is
important but
i think there's a story is amazing because of what it shows
it turns out net
they could have actually birthday controlled the benzene emissions and
been within the law and not harmed anybody
if they spent seven million dollars
eventually get fined twenty million dollars but they think it's worth it
because although all the years that they're putting that it
emissions into the air which they didn't have to pay for plus they figure we got
caught on this but we don't get caught on all of things which he dont overall
it's a parrot beckett makes economic sense for us
continue doing this but you know a lot of times conservatives or republicans
will say although but wait a minute that's not fair
uh... years overdue about over burdensome regulations
and you to put these companies out of work and the next thing you know
there's a heavy in egypt
well is that true
not exactly it turns out that coke earned one hundred and seventy six
million dollars in profits from that corpus christi plan in nineteen
ninety-five alone
so all in india was
burnt a hundred and sixty nine million in profit from that plan
and everybody would have been safe
but just squeeze an extra nickel out of it
even though it cost economy because the workers there but i a m there
and that the citizens of corpus christi more money they didn't care they did it
anyway began
all proven they pled guilty
they do this
all the time
so they wouldn't think of the time
profit
they kept their workers savon area save and he didn't want to do it
care workers get you know cancer who chasm and
trials in this incoming senate dot gov dot kz
but also to