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Ira Rennert is an American Billionaire industrialist with a long, documented track record of severe environmental abuses in the United States. Government agencies have called him America's "worst private polluter". Now Ira is doing the same thing in Peru.

In 1997 Ira created the Doe Run Peru company when he bought the mining smelter in La Oroya for a bargain basement price on the condition he drastically reduces its toxic emissions. But he hasn’t. It’s so bad that for the second year in a row La Oroya has made it to a top ten list, ranking alongside Chernobyl, as one of the World's Worst Polluted Places.

Trapped in the narrow mountain canyons the 2,000,000 pounds a day of pollution literally creates a gas chamber for La Oroya’s population causing irreversible brain damage, cancer, and even death. The contamination is so rampant that over 99% of the 12,000 children living there have lead poisoning....