"DOVER, Delaware - DuPont Co. said Friday that it will not participate in the U.S. Army's plan to dispose of wastewater from the destruction of the deadly nerve agent VX.
The company had been working with the Army since 2003 on a plan to ship wastewater from neutralized VX nerve agent from a chemical weapons depot in Indiana to Deepwater, N.J., to be treated at DuPont's Chamber Works facility and then dumped in the Delaware River.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had signed off on the idea, but environmentalists had fought it, and regulatory approval by New Jersey officials was uncertain, said Nick Fanandakis, DuPont vice president and general manager for chemical solutions."
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"Company officials said the economic return for DuPont would have been negligible. DuPont spokesman Anthony Farina said DuPont's relationship with New Jersey officials outweighed any benefit DuPont might have gained from disposing of the VX wastewater.
Gov. Jon Corzine on Friday thanked DuPont, saying "common sense has prevailed."
"This is a decisive victory for the people of New Jersey," Corzine said in a statement. "VX nerve agent is one of the world's most deadly chemical compounds and dumping it in a river never made any sense."" (my bold)
Ah, well then. They weren't going to make any money. Now it makes sense.
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