People v. Thoro Products Co., Inc.

In this case, the defendant company and one of its officers leaked and spilled thousands of pounds of poisonous chlorinated solvents, including Tetrachlorocthene (PCE), Trichloroethene (TCE), 1,1,1, Trichloroeth-ane (TCA), and Methylene Chloride into the ground, creating an underground plume of deadly pollutants extending one mile long and two hundred feet wide which continues to contaminate the soil and underground water table within a mile of the company's facility. Such enormous environmental damage took years to build up and longer for the government to détect. Aware of the nature of the…