Asarco Attorney (also represented a client once whose President now runs AIG) argues for due process of law

Ironically, the El Paso Community has been asking for due process of law regarding the contamination left by years of Asarco secret-toxic waste burning ....  will Grupo Mexico get "due process" while the Court ignores this community and ignores its evidence??  

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Grupo México is Confident Its Reorganization Plan for ASARCO Will ... Business Wire (press release) (AMC), is entitled under applicable US law to retain control of its wholly owned subsidiary ASARCO through the full payment plan offered to creditors on ... See all stories on this topic

"AMC attorney Robert Moore [do a search on his name in the blog's search-engine] presented the company’s final arguments to U.S. Judge Richard Schmidt of the Corpus Christi Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday, arguing that GMEXICO’s offer to pay the ASARCO creditors $2.2 billion in cash represented a full and fair offer, and one that meets the necessary legal obligations to retain ownership of the company. ...“Our view is that we're facing what in my view is a constitutional level issue,” Mr. Moore argued in his closing statement. “It's an issue of due process. It's an issue of unfair taking."

Asarco contamination of the Hueco Bolson

What we know now is that during those years of El Paso-secret-toxic-waste-incineration ASARCO dumped stuff to the waste water (Sewage) plant and then that water was treated and sent out throughout the city as "purple pipe" water to our schools, parks, and golf courses -- potentially exposing anyone who uses those to the secret undeclared toxic-wastes.   (Anyone who loves to golf could possibly be exposed, also, for example).  That purple pipe water was also injected into the Hueco Bolson.   This may likely be why the EPA mainly-sampled these grassy-areas when they came out here in 2001 - and, the EPA are still not telling us what poisons ASARCO's secret-years left here.  But years later the powers-that-be  built a Hueco Bolson desal plant capable of removing 99% of toxins from the water (and the rest is deep-well injected 20 miles away on Military Property).

Why is there NO Dioxin data available?  Just shameful that this Mexican-American community cannot get basic-chemical information that communities up north have (see Mother Jone's recent issue about Dioxin Dorms).   And also shameful that several of us have been fired/non-renewed for asking about this water contamination.  This community should be the first to support anyone who wants to support Mexican-American community's Right-To-Know.