1.   Birch argued that the government was avoiding informing the public that it allowed companies to discharge dangerous chemicals and heavy metals directly into rivers.

2.   Even the Greenpeace water samples, he said, only confirmed that the company was discharging no more radioactive material into the sea than the state allowed it to.

3.   GM officials like to say that the company now discharges water into the river that is cleaner than the water coming into the factory.

4.   He says officials sent him to see a social worker four times after he suggested that the company was illegally discharging chemicals into Long Island Sound.

5.   Her battle with Formosa is personal, and over the years it has become about more than simply what the company discharges into the bay.

6.   The civil complaint, which seeks unspecified damages, charges the company discharged mercury, arsenic and other wastes into Whitewood Creek.

7.   Sudjatmiko said the company discharged them after consulting the Ministry of Health.