She notes that most sanitation standards are 35 years old, and don't represent current understanding about the effects of dumping under-treated sewage in a closed system like an ocean.
Prisoners were stripped naked, dumped under freezing showers and denied sleep and food, the court was told.
Two days before the fair opened, twenty-six corpses were dumped under the Millennium Arches, a downtown landmark.
Garbage in Dakar is dumped under tattered signs warning "Dump no garbage," and trash fires burn all night in neighborhoods by the beaches.
Activists say the government's failure to find alternate sites has meant rampant illegal dumping under highway overpasses, in abandoned lots or concealed in country roads.
But by then, 1.1 million pounds or more of PCB's had leaked or had been dumped under state permit into the river.
Finally, after one purchase too many, these "wireless wonders" will end up dumped under your computer desk alongside the photo-quality paper and a box of floppy disks.
They told of rigged smokestack tests, of polluted wastewater dumped under cover of night, of regulators stalled at the front gate while flagrant safety violations were hidden.
Other supporters of dumping under the E.P.A. standards in place before yesterday include the International Longshoremen's Association and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Tuesday's report found that Trafigura had not been held to account for its dumping under UK jurisdiction, although the authors allege there is strong reason to believe that key decisions made by the company over activities such as "caustic washing" were made in its UK-based employees.
