The Teflon Toxin Part 3: How DuPont Slipped Past the EPA

        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.