Dioxin, Duplicity, DuPont
The DuPont plant in DeLisle, Mississippi has been a toxic polluter for a quarter century, and now is asking for more permits to emit toxins, despite a class action suit and evidence of health hazards to workers and residents and nearby oyster beds.

Delisle, Mississippi: For the past 25 years, the DuPont plant in DeLisle, Mississippi, has released high levels of toxic dioxin and other heavy metals into the air and water. Despite alarming illnesses and cancer clusters surrounding the plant, DuPont has maintained that it upholds a strong public safety record. The federally deregulated impotent EPA and pro-business MEDQ have done nothing to contradict this blatant lie.

"It didn't take a doctor or scientist to figure out - hey, us guys are all working here - there's got to be something here. In two generations the only thing that has changed is the [DuPont] chemical plant built down there - it's not hard to make a connection if you live here and watch it going on and see it," questions Greg Cuevas, a former employee of the Dupont plant in DeLisle, who lost his own kidneys due to the dioxins. Myra Marsh, a Delisle resident, now wonders if in her eagerness to work for the new plant it ended up costing her the use of her legs and put her in a wheelchair for life.

After four years of interviews and tireless researching of the environmental abuses of DuPont the first in a massive lawsuit against DuPont brought by over 2,000 people who worked in, or lived by, the plant is followed in the episode.

With unprecedented access to this Southern court room, we follow the lives of the people who have been directly affected by the pollution as they tell about living with DuPont for years, cope with terminal illnesses suffered by themselves and family members, and as they prepare and then testify - some of them with only months to live.

Sierra Club Chronicles
In the planetary struggle to protect the environment, we often forget that this is a war waged every day on neighborhood streets, fishing boats and in firehouses by people fighting to protect their homes, their health and their jobs.

Sierra Club Chronicles, a new monthly television series produced by award winning filmmaker Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films in association with Sierra Club Productions captures the dramatic efforts of committed individuals across the country working every day to protect the health of their environment and their communities. Molly O'Brien co-executive produces and Richard Ray Pérez serves as director and supervising producer on the series.

For more information about the Chronicles series, visit the Sierra Club TV website.