<p><pre><code> In October 1996, after the regional office of the EPA
began investigating a complaint about one of the company’s
landfills, Eli McCoy, the director of the West Virginia
DEP, allegedly sent the company a document “to aid DuPont
in diffusing any potential enforcement action,” as Bilott
put it in a letter to the EPA. After a few weeks of
negotiation, the West Virginia DEP signed off on a consent
decree, in exchange for a mere $200,000 penalty and minor
upgrades from DuPont. McCoy then went to work for a
consulting firm DuPont hired to help it comply with that
agreement.
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It just gets more depressing from there. I am only 75% the way through and find it hard to finish.