‘They called this Fluorine chemical ‘the devil’s piss’ it was so potent.’ ibid.
3M pledged to phase out C8 by the end of 2002. That very same year, DuPoint began producing C8 at its plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina. ibid.
In 2002 the US Environmental Protection Agency launched a priority review to determine whether C8 should be regulated. ibid.
The US Environmental Protection Agency fined DuPont $16.5 million dollars for failing to report the health risks related to C8 exposure. ibid.
Gen X is just one of 88,000 unregulated chemicals used in everyday products. ibid.
This is the inside story of the Salisbury nerve agent attack told for the first time by those who were there. An international murder hunt against a former Russian spy played out on the streets of a British city. Now, moving images never seen before of the Russian assassins just after the attack. Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack: The Inside Story, BBC 2018
‘A former Russian spy is critical in hospital after a suspected poisoning in Salisbury.’ ibid. news report
Novichok – one of the world’s deadliest nerve agents has found its way to Salisbury. But how? The answer lies in Moscow … The Russians weaponised Novichok for the battlefield. ibid.
27 countries throw out 153 Russian diplomats who they accuse of spying. ibid.
When I was a little girl I remember driving on I-44 with my mom past the desolate remains of what used to be Times Beach. The street sat empty save for the dark windowless husks of decaying abandoned houses. And she would always tell me the story about how that was where everyone had to be evacuated because of toxic waste contamination. The Cover Up at Times Beach, Truthstream Media 2017
The by-product of Agent Orange was manufactured … Times beach was disincorporated, evacuated and quarantined save for one elderly couple who refused to leave. ibid.
The largest civilian dioxin exposure in US history. ibid.
A suspected dioxin dump site. ibid.
Bliss [haulage company] subsequently testified came from a Monsanto research lab. ibid.
They [resident family] didn’t just lose their house … They had been exposed to all these harmful chemicals and hazardous toxic waste. ibid.
The discovery of PCBs in the town. ibid.
‘Every member of my family was ill with something different.’ ibid. resident
Russell Bliss [haulage] was never convicted of any crime. ibid.
In the 1982 the DOJ … withheld documents from a Congressional investigation on the Times Beach clean-up … They cite executive privilege. ibid.
This was a case that had gone terribly terribly awry. Until Proven Innocent: The Hannah Overton Story, 2016
The defence says they have yet to see crucial evidence removed from the Overton house. ibid. television news
The case of an abusive [adoptive] mother who poisoned [Andrew Burd] her son [salt] and deliberately killed him. ibid.
This was a case of salt intoxication [hypernatraemia]. ibid.
Finally, Hannah’s home; she’s with her children. ibid.
In the 1990s strange things began to happen in the small town of Corby. Mothers began to give birth to children with severe deformities. As the number of cases grew, the mothers demanded to know why this had happened to their children. This is the unknown story of the worst child poisoning case since Thalidomide. A case that changed our understanding of the dangers of air pollution. Horizon: Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings, BBC 2020
‘Mothers all from the same small area all of whom had given to birth to children with very similar deformities.’ ibid. Stephen Bevan, Sunday Time journalist
The waste sites were located on land where the town’s steel works once stood. Corby started life as a village but in the 1930s one of the largest steel plants in Europe was built. But in 1980, faced with huge government cuts, the steel work shut down, leaving 11,000 people unemployed. Corby Council devised a plan to regenerate the town (1983). This tiny council took on the biggest land reclamation project in Europe with a ten-year regeneration programme to help bring Corby back to life. But demolishing a steel work is a complex process: steel making generates toxic waste that must be carefully disposed of. ibid.
As this story spread, more and more mothers started coming forward. ibid.
‘It was such a cover up.’ ibid.
With the Council claiming no evidence of a cluster, the mother’s fight for answers seemed to be over … ‘My reading the article in the Sunday Times was complete happenstance … I had back in the day worked in the steel works.’ ibid. Des Collins, solicitor
‘It isn’t normal for secret documents to turn up; it’s like something out of a John Grisham novel.’ ibid.
The advice included that the contractors cover their lorries and make sure no dust is created particularly on public roads … ‘Lorries weren’t covered with sludge raining out of the back of these dump trucks. All the roads in this area are judged covered in this silt. And that’s where things went pear-shaped … A tremendous amount of pollution over the whole of the district. That is basically a toxic soup of dust hanging over a town … over many many years.’ ibid. Environmental health officer
18 families were now involved in the fight for compensation, and they were finally ready to go to trial … A case that had never been proven before: 10 years after their battle began, all 18 mothers made their way to court … The judge visited the reclamation site … The issue of how far the dust could travel … [Corby Council] was hit with a legal bill of almost £15 million. It was the first case in the world to rule that air pollution could harm babies in the womb. ibid.
In 2018 the people of Salisbury were faced with an unprecedented crisis. A chemical weapons attack on a British city. Based on first-hand accounts and extensive interviews, this is their story. The Salisbury Poisonings I, caption, BBC 2020
Tell you what, mate. Let’s let Trumpton give that [bench] a proper hose down. God knows what’s happened here. ibid. rozzer on scene
Sergei was a high-level MI6 agent inside Russia’s GRU Intelligence service. Now he was moved to the UK as part of the spy swap. ibid. senior rozzer
This is one of the most toxic substances on Earth. That has been specifically designed to be invisible, undetectable. And for the 46,500 people in Salisbury we are their only line of defence. ibid. Tracy, public health lady
Skripal Was Part Of 2010 US/Russia Spy Swap. The Salisbury Poisonings II, 2018 Fox News banner
He [Skripal] contaminated the house. He picked it up on his way in, on the door handle. ibid. senior rozzer DCC Lindsay
There are 11 confirmed deposits at Zizi’s, 6 at The Mill, 14 in the Skripal car, 15 in the Skripal house, all lethal doses. ibid. Tracy
I’m sleeping there tonight. And probably quite a lot from now on. I’m sorry. ibid. Tracy to hubby
Whitehall are going to take over, aren’t they? ibid. Tracy to Supt Dave Minty
‘It was highly likely that Russia was responsible for this wretched and despicable act. They have treated the use of a military-grade nerve agent in Europe with sarcasm, contempt, and defiance.’ The Salisbury Poisonings III, Theresa May
Box jellyfish: ‘There is nothing on the planet animal-wise that kills as quickly as these animals. There is nothing that even comes close … in under two minutes.’ Australia with Simon Reeve II, BBC 2020
It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. Secrets of the Salisbury Poisonings, DiscoveryPlus 2021, Theresa May
They were unconscious and slumped on a park bench heavily salivating. ibid. rozzer
Forensic detectives have re-examined one of the most famous crimes of all time. A murder shocking in its brutality. It was the first trial by media. The first trial dominated by forensic evidence. It was the trial of Dr Crippen. Now a new investigation using DNA and previously confidential documents will cast serious doubt on Crippen’s conviction. Was Dr Crippen Innocent? Channel 5 2008
This murder was as horrific as anything the Ripper carried out. Still more alarming, the prime suspect seemed such a gentleman. A doctor living in suburbia. Yet it seemed he was capable of poisoning his wife and then slicing her body into small pieces: Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. ibid.
His wax figure still stands in London’s Chamber of Horrors. ibid.
Now she was in her thirties, an aspiring actress; he was middle aged and serious. And they had nothing in common. ibid.
Above all, were the body parts in the cellar really Cora Crippen? ibid.
The forty-seven-year-old doctor, outwardly respectable, was sleeping with his twenty-six-year-old secretary Ethel ‘le Neve’. ibid.
Dr David Foran’s work on the Crippen case ... made headlines around the world ... ‘The tissue on that slide is male in origin’ ... Michigan State University’s work confirms that Crippen was executed for a crime he didn’t commit. It was a miscarriage of justice. ibid.