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Avtex: A Clash Of Environmental Business And Defense Interests, Diane Dodd-Mccue, Martha Reiner
Avtex: A Clash Of Environmental Business And Defense Interests, Diane Dodd-Mccue, Martha Reiner
Robins School of Business White Paper Series, 1980-2022
Avtex: A Clash of Environmental, Business, and Defense Interests is based on the continuously unfolding conflict between the only certified U.S. supplier of carbonized rayon for the Department of Defense and NASA with state and federal water and air quality regulators. Avtex, a privately held and financially strapped corporation, is the biggest water and air polluter in Virginia and one of the worst nationwide. It is also a major employer in Front Royal, Virginia, a small community nestled in the Shenandoah Valley. Complicating the Avtex controversy are the $22.6 million federal bailout in November 1989 and recent charges by environmental …