13 janvier 2006 19:57
Another search agent orange in here too
Grist Magazine | Search | 29 Results for dow chemical
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13 May 2003 |
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... rally in support of the survivors of the Bhopal chemical disaster. Two women survivors, Rasheeda Bee and Champa ... Union Carbide did not clean up the site before Dow Chemical acquired the company in 2001. Dow buying Union Carbide never sounded like a great ... the suffering of so many people? The answer is Dow Chemical. Dow's purchase of Union Carbide has ... |
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12 May 2003 |
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... of eight people who got their body burden of chemicals tested as part of a Commonweal and Environmental ... was carrying 85 contaminants, including 45 carcinogens and 56 chemicals that can impact the brain and nervous system ... organophosphate pesticides, including the now banned Dursban, made by Dow Chemical. How did these chemicals get into me? I never use pesticides in ... have been on something that I ate or the chemicals may have been sprayed in a room ... |
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06 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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Outgoing Michigan Gov. John Engler (R) is trying to relax the state standard for ... move that unhappy environmentalists say is designed to minimize Dow Chemical's financial liability for future cleanup efforts. The ... dioxin permissible in the soil in Midland, Mich., where Dow is headquartered. Dioxin can disrupt human immune and ... its presence in Midland and areas downstream stems from Dow's half-century history of manufacturing Agent Orange ... |
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Styro-Tome |
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06 Feb 2003 |
Ask Umbra |
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... your lunchroom. Styrofoam is the trademarked name of the Dow Chemical Company's exclusive blue extruded polystyrene insulation. Making ... into planks, last forever, and repel water, according to Dow. This is not a Styrofoam container. Lunch Room ... for the ozone-depleting CFCs used in its manufacture. Dow replaced CFCs with HCFCs, which are less ozone ... selling point, as EPS will not leach any nasty chemicals into landfill. Solid-waste experts are still unclear ... |
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04 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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... battle between San Francisco Baykeeper, a conservation organization, and Dow Chemical ended yesterday when the Contra Costa County Superior Court approved a settlement. Dow stood accused of unlawfully discharging contaminated water into ... San Francisco Bay. Under the terms of the settlement, Dow will pay $3 million toward a wetland restoration ... into the aquifer to encourage microbes to consume toxic chemicals. The groundwater in the area is currently contaminated ... |
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21 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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... for three weeks straight in Midland, Mich., headquarters of Dow Chemical Corp. A wastewater containment facility at a Dow plant on the banks of the Tittabawassee River ... In 1995, Michigan began finding elevated levels of dioxins -- chemicals that have been linked to cancer, birth defects ... the residential cleanup standard in Michigan is 90 ppt. Dow denies that the plant, which at various times ... |
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15 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
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... sick. The court in Los Angeles rejected arguments by Dow Chemical and other chemical manufacturers that they were protected from suits covering chemicals approved by the U.S. EPA for residential ... challenged, but a jury could still decide that a chemical's dangers to human health outweighed its benefits ... |
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She's the Bee's Knees |
Michelle Nijhuis |
19 Apr 2004 |
Main Dish |
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... women are helping to lead an international campaign against Dow Chemical and its subsidiary Union Carbide. In 1999, they ... a criminal trial in Bhopal. They also called for Dow to provide long-term health care for survivors ... that Forbes magazine has blamed for a drop in Dow's stock price. In May, Bee and Shukla plan to take their demands to Dow's shareholders meeting in Michigan. The pair shared ... |
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Up the Leak Without a Paddle |
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06 Dec 2004 |
Daily Grist |
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... 1984, Union Carbide Corp. (UCC), owner of the leaking chemical plant, has denied responsibility, saying that its Indian ... technical competence." Meanwhile, last week an enterprising activist embarrassed Dow Chemical, which now owns UCC, by posing as a ... 12 billion to help the suffering survivors in Bhopal. Dow was then forced to do damage control and ... |
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11 Jan 2000 |
Daily Grist |
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Cargill and Dow Chemical are teaming up to make a biodegradable plastic from ... at the front of a race among agriculture and chemical firms to find cost-effective ways to make ... carpets, food containers, and plastic window envelopes. Cargill and Dow plan to construct a manufacturing plant in Nebraska ... |
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07 Aug 2002 |
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... medical supplies, and other military necessities. In the 1940s, Dow Chemical agreed to operate a synthetic rubber plant in ... to pass the buck (or part of it) to Dow. That didn't fly with the 9th U ... and all materials including the wastes, knew just what Dow was doing, had unfettered control over it, [and ... |
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Strongarm of the Law |
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28 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
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... and weed-killers. In the 1990s, lawyers for big chemical companies pushed a novel interpretation of the 1972 ... from any future lawsuits over damage caused by the chemicals. Several lower courts fell for it, and in ... peanut farmers whose crops were wiped out by a Dow Chemical pesticide called Strongarm, the Supremes reversed the lower ... |
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18 Oct 2001 |
Daily Grist |
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... A. County's biggest polluters include ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Dow Chemical, which together produced over 2.3 million pounds of chemicals in 1998. Residents living near these and other toxic sites are exposed to high concentrations of chemicals that can cause cancer, respiratory disease, and reproductive ... |
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Sue It, Don't Spray It |
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28 Feb 2005 |
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... Orange case goes to federal court Did U.S. chemical companies commit war crimes by producing toxic dioxin ... City. The suit was filed last year against Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and a dozen other companies on behalf of ... |
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Eyes on the Prize |
Michelle Nijhuis |
19 Apr 2004 |
Main Dish |
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... They're now leading an international campaign to hold Dow Chemical and its subsidiary Union Carbide responsible for the ... La., took on an oil refinery and a Shell Chemicals plant that polluted her neighborhood and poisoned her ... |
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