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Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a Netflix documentary series about the 1979 partial nuclear meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant and the corporate misconduct alleged in its aftermath.

On July 24, 2010, 21 people died in a mass panic at Loveparade in the German city of Duisburg. Over 650 were injured. But when the trial ended in 2020, all 50 defendants were acquitted.

In November 2019, four thieves carried out one of Germany's most audacious art thefts, setting fire to a power box to cut the lights before breaking into the historic Green Vault museum in Dresden's Residenzschloss and stealing 21 pieces of 18th-century jewelry worth approximately 113 million euros. The perpetrators belonged to the Remmo family from Berlin. Five of six men charged were convicted in 2023, and most of the stolen jewelry was recovered as part of a 2023 plea deal.

BP Exploration & Production was found guilty of gross negligence and willful misconduct in connection with the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 workers and triggered the largest environmental disaster in American history.

In 1953, the Hooker Chemical Company sold a 16-acre abandoned canal site in Niagara Falls, New York, to the local school board for $1—knowing it contained nearly 22,000 tons of toxic industrial waste. Over the next 25 years, the buried chemicals seeped into homes, poisoned residents, and sparked America's first major environmental justice crisis.