Philex

Balog Creek, Philippines

In October, 2011,the Balog Creek was declared "biologically dead" after Philex allowed some 20 million metric tons of mine tailings to be deposited along the 2.5-kilometer water channel, according to a report from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MGB-DENR).

This is ten times more than the volume of mine tailings that spilled out of the Marcopper mine in 1996 in Marinduque

The DENR has slapped a hefty P1-billion fine, almost as much as the mining firm's taxes last year, on one of the country's largest producers of gold and copper.

Philex refuses to pay Padcal mine waste leak fines stating "forces of nature cannot be prevented 100 percent."

Here's Philex's Board of Directors
Eulalio Austin Jr. -Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Member of Finance Committee -- 51
Manuel Pangilinan - First Pacific Company Ltd. 67
Juan Santos - Philex Mining Corp. 74
Robert Nicholson - First Pacific Company Ltd. 58
Oscar Hilado Jr. - Phinma Corporation 76
Edward Tortorici - First Pacific Company Ltd. 74
Marilyn Victorio-Aquino - First Pacific Company Ltd. 57
Eliza Antonino - Philex Mining Corp. 35
Wilfredo Paras - GT Capital Holdings Inc. 66
Bienvenido Laguesma - Philex Mining Corp. 62

Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company (NEPACCO)

Times Beach, Missouri

Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri.
Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to a dioxin contamination that made national headlines. It was the largest civilian exposure to dioxin in the country's history.

The decision in United States v. Northeastern Pharmaceutical & Chemical Co. NEPACCO's corporate vice president (Leo Grande) was found liable because he had direct authority to control the disposal of hazardous waste, supervised the disposal of waste-filled barrels and, therefore, was held to be an "arranger" of disposal under CERCLA. The court imposed personal liability because the president/shareholder had (1) the capacity and general responsibility to control waste disposal, (2) the power to direct negotiations regarding waste disposal, and (3) the capacity to prevent damage caused by hazardous waste.

Pharmacia Corporation (now Pfizer) and Bayer CropScience Inc.

Industri-plex Woburn, Massachusetts

Bayer CropScience has products in crop protection and nonagricultural pest control. It also has activities in seeds and plant traits and is involved in genetic engineering of food.

Between 1991 and 2009, Pfizer has agreed to pay fines for polluting the Delaware River, the as well as for environmental violations in Connecticut, Alabama, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, NJ, and Michigan

Pharmacia Corporation and Bayer CropScience Inc. have agreed to pay $4.25 million in natural resources damages caused by hazardous contamination at the Industri-plex in Woburn, Massachusetts

Taylor Lumber and Treating, Oregon

arsenic and pentachlorophenol groundwater contamination

A still-active wood processing facility, Taylor Lumber and Treating made the list because of groundwater contamination. The Oregon site leaked wood-treating chemicals such as arsenic and pentachlorophenol, which have now been contained by an underground barrier wall (but for how long???)

Hooker Chemical Co. (Occidental Petroleum subsidiary)

The Love Canal Tragedy, NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y

Twenty five years after the Hooker Chemical Company stopped using the Love Canal as an industrial dump, 82 different compounds, 11 of them suspected carcinogens, began percolating upward through the soil, their drum containers rotting and leaching their contents into the backyards and basements of 100 homes and a public school built on the banks of the canal.

Here's Occidental Petroleum's Board of Directors:

Edward P. Djerejian Director since 1996 Independent Chairman since 2013

Spencer Abraham Director since 2005 Independent Vice Chairman since 2013

Howard I. Atkins Director since 2010

Gene L. Batchelder (Conoco Philips...see Bhopal) Director since 2013

John E. Feick Director since 1998 Member of the Audit Committee, Executive Compensation Committee, Finance and Risk Management Committee, and Environmental, Health and Safety Committee (Chair)

Margaret M. Foran Director since 2010

Carlos M. Gutierrez Director since 2009

William R. Klesse Director since 2013 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Valero Energy Corporation,

Avedick B. Poladian Director since 2008

Oxy's subsidiaries include wholly owned chemical manufacturers Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem), OxyVinyls, and INDSPEC Chemical Corporation. Oxy indirectly owns Armand Products Company with Church & Dwight Co., Inc.. Carbocloro S.A. Indústrias Químicas is a joint venture between OxyChem and UNIPAR in Brazil.

Nov, 2013: Occidental Petroleum will pay $14 million to its former chairman Ray Irani as part of his severance agreement

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