Kierney-Passaic
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Kierney-Passaic is the implicated private engineering firm whose alleged three-year falsification of contamination reports is the cause of Burt's defection; its presence is felt through its lawyer and the employee's confession, making the company the antagonistic force in the scene.
Through its lawyer Don Novak and the testimony/defection of engineer Burt Gantz.
The company wields institutional resources and legal counsel but is suddenly challenged by an insider and vulnerable to government scrutiny.
The revelation exposes corporate malfeasance and forces the firm into the sphere of federal enforcement and political calculation.
Implied tension between corporate messaging and internal dissent; presence of a whistleblower indicates internal compliance failures.
Kierney-Passaic is the implicated corporate actor; its alleged three-year falsification of contamination reports is the subject of Burt's confession, making the company the object of potential legal and political fallout originating in this scene.
Represented in person by its lawyer Don Novak and indirectly by the engineer Burt Gantz who worked there.
Traditionally powerful as an employer and industry actor but immediately vulnerable to legal challenge and reputational damage from the whistleblower.
The allegation threatens to transform a policy hearing (Polluter Pays) into an investigation of corporate malfeasance, altering legislative debate and enforcement priorities.
Implied internal conflict between engineers aware of malpractice and corporate management attempting to conceal wrongdoing.
Kierney-Passaic is the corporate source of the scandal: an engineer (Burt) alleges the company falsified reports and concealed carcinogenic toxins. The organization is implicated by the whistleblower and represented in the room through its lawyer, making it the antagonistic institutional force at the center of the crisis.
Through Burt's confession (a company scientist) and by presence of the company's lawyer in the office.
Being challenged from within by an employee while attempting to use legal representation to contain exposure; corporate resources confront governmental scrutiny.
The allegation undermines public trust in industrial self-reporting and threatens to draw regulatory and legislative attention that could reshape enforcement and liability norms.
Implicit conflict between corporate concealment practices and whistleblowing employees; likely presence of protective PR/legal instincts versus ethical dissent.
Kierney-Passaic is the corporate antagonist whose engineers manipulated MDLs and falsified EPA reports; its institutional practices are the source of both public-health danger and the legal peril now confronting Burt and the staff.
Through Burt's insider confession and the referenced falsified reports attributed to company procedures.
Corporate practices exert covert power over regulatory data; now challenged by government staff but capable of inflicting legal and reputational harm.
Highlights corporate capacity to subvert regulatory oversight and the difficulty of holding private actors accountable without legal-safeguards for witnesses.
Implied internal collusion among engineers and legal sign-off to produce sanitized reports; tension between culpable insiders and corporate defense.
Kierney-Passaic is the corporate actor whose engineers raised MDLs and submitted doctored EPA reports; the company is the source of the scandal and the entity whose exposure the team hopes to leverage politically.
Through Burt's confession and the falsified reports he initialed.
Corporate malfeasance challenged by government actors; the company holds incriminating internal control but is vulnerable if whistleblower testimony proceeds.
Reveals how private contractors can distort regulatory processes, prompting institutional responses from regulators and legislators.
Implied culture of concealment and technical manipulation; engineers instructed or incentivized to alter detection thresholds.
Related Events
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Burt Gantz and his lawyer Don Novak arrive in Toby's office ostensibly to discuss testimony on the Polluter Pays bill. Burt initially mouths a corporate …
What begins as a casual check-in becomes a seismic disclosure: Burt Gantz, a Kierney-Passaic engineer, quietly reveals he intends to break with the company and …
During a charged office confrontation, Burt Gantz unexpectedly tells Toby and Josh that Kierney-Passaic has been hiding highly carcinogenic contamination at multiple waste sites and …
In Toby's office at night Burt Gantz explains that Kierney-Passaic manipulates Method Detection Levels—raising MDLs to 100 ppb—so carcinogens disappear from EPA soil reports. Mike's …