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Trespass Against Us
Dow Chemical and the Toxic Century
by Jack Doyle

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Just out! The Dow Chemical Company has been trespassing on private property for decades and getting away with it. The trespass in this case is harmful and it is toxic. For the transgressors at issue are man-made synthetic chemicals, more then 100,000 of which have been "invented" and let loose in the world since the 1930s. Yet many of these chemicals are toxic to life and have been doing harm for years, insinuating themselves into blood, body tissue, sperm and egg. "Body burdens" of toxic chemicals are now being measured in humans and wildlife all over the globe. The result is not a pretty picture: cancers, birth defects, poisoned workers, and polluted communities. The guilty parties in these transgressions, however, have not been brought to account, and they have not been stopped. To this day, "toxic trespass" continues, and it is poisoning all of us.

Trespass Against Us is a story of how one company's chemical products and byproducts have damaged, and continue to damage, public health and the environment. Known in the 1960s for producing the lethal Vietnam War defoliant, Agent Orange, and more recently for acquiring Union Carbide's still-unresolved Bhopal legacy, Dow Chemical today is a company at the manufacturing headwaters of many of the world's most problematic chemicals, including pesticides, plastics and solvents. Dow's organochlorines have unleashed dioxins and dioxin-like compounds, among the most lethal substances on the planet. Dow pollutants and known carcinogens also continue to spew from its factories, waste dumps, and incinerators worldwide.

Trespass Against Us is a story of "invent-first-and-ask-questions-later" chemistry; of toxic and hazardous materials pushed into commerce before being fully tested; and of future generations burdened with toxic chemicals that will persist in the environment for decades. Dow's story is also about corporate power: of a company accustomed to getting its way and not above manipulating science, pushing aside safety, or spending millions in the courts and Congress to achieve its ends. Yet Trespass Against Us is also a hopeful story; an account of everyday moms and dads, Vietnam veterans and villagers, chemical workers and communities fighting back; of people standing up to power and seeking a better way. What they are saying is clear and unequivocal: no trespassing-no more invasive toxic chemicals.

". . . Jack Doyle makes some gutsy, far-reachingassertions about Dow Chemical Co. . . . The basicpremise of Doyle's pointed, yet meticulouslyresearched book is that Dow has trespassed uponthe lives of millions, violating their right to livefree of chemical exposure."

- Toledo Blade, Books, March 2005

"Trespass Against Us is a chilling exposeof corporate deceit and crime. . . . It is a grimwarning of what lies in store unless an arousedpublic places existing institutions under itssupervision and control. . ."

• Noam Chomsky, 2005, Professor & Author, M.I.T.
• ". . . Chocked full of history, facts and figures,Doyle's book is a powerful indictment of the legacyof industrial chemistry."
  - E-Magazine, March/April 2005
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  ". . . This account is well-researched andbeautifully written. Its message is vital. . . .
  - Pesticides and You, Fall, 2004

"...In my early twenties, I read Rachael Carson's Silent Spring. It left an indelible impression on me, andsince then Trespass Against Us has been one of the most powerful books that I have read..."

• Ravi Chellam, December 2004, Elusive Justice, A Symposium on the Bhopal". . .The work of bringing ethics into business consciousness is primarily the work of words--how to name phenomena so they can be seen and understood. We've seen phrases like "corporate citizenship," "sustainability," and "ecological footprint" enter the business lexicon. Here is a new phrase to watch for: "toxic trespass." In Trespass Against Us. . . Doyle attempts to raise the visibility of what he calls toxic trespass: the body burden invasion of synthetic substances produced by the chemical industry. Harmful chemicals are being found in breast milk, blood, and body tissue. Chemical companies--this new language suggests--are trespassing on property thatis not theirs, human property. Body burden chemicals are cast as a trespass on the human right to health. . . ."

Business Ethics, January 2005

"Asserting that it is a human right to be born and live free of manmade chemicals. . .Doyle makes the case that Dow is guilty of legal and ethical trespass. The book chronicles the poisoning Dow has been responsiblefor through quality investigative journalism, while telling the story of dioxin, Agent Orange, and silicone breast implants. The lesser known stories of plastic wrap, pesticides, dry cleaning chemicals...are also told . . . ."

www.engineeringbookmonster.com , 2005

Contents
1. In The Blood
The Dow body burden..................................

2. House of Wonders
How a small Michigan bleach maker became a corporate giant...................

3. Dow Goes to War
Napalm, Agent Orange, and 2,4,5-T..................................................................

4. Dioxin in The Dark
The slow coming-to-light of a nasty chemical........................................................

5. Dowicides
Beating the bugs, poisoning the well......................................................................

6. "Saving" 2,4-D
Fifty years of a toxic herbicide.............................................................

7. Plastic
"Ben, I just want to say one word to you.".............................................................

8. Taken to The Cleaners
Solvents take away the grease & grime--and more................................................

9. Rocky Flats
Plutonium pollution & messy management.............................................................

10. Poisoning Canada
Mercury pollution, toxic trains, & bad air............................................................................

11. Dow Environmentalism
Dow "greening," politics, & P.R. ............................................................................

12. Silicone
Chemicals in women: the implant fiasco....................................................................

13. Men At Work
Poisons on the job & busting unions......................................................................

14. The DBCP Saga
"No sperm seen".................................................................................

15. "Dow Water"
Pollution & peril in Louisiana.................................................................................

16. Danger Zones
The chemistry doesn't always stay in the container.................................................

17. Big in Texas
In Brazoria County, it's all Dow................................................................................

18. Trouble in New Zealand
Agent Orange leftovers & Ivon Watkins-Dow ....................................................

19. Time & The Tittabawassee
Dow fouls a Michigan river--and people's lives...................................................

20. Union Carbide
Outlaw corporation acquired by Dow......................................................................

21. No Trespassing
Defining new boundaries......................................................

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Jack Doyle is director of J. D. Associates, a Washington, D.C. investigative research firm specializing in business and environmental issues. He has been writing about technology, business and the environment for more than 20 years. Publisher's Weekly called his June 200 book on the U.S. auto industry, Taken For A Ride (Four Walls Eight Windows Inc.) "a valuable source for...partisans on all sides of the debate." At Friends of the Earth in the 1990s, Doyle wrote Crude Awakening, a book on the U.S. oil industry, and Hold The Applause!, a critique of DuPont's "corporate environmentalism." A 1985 book on agricultural biotechnology, Altered Harvest (Viking-Penguin) is regarded as a pioneering work on the subject. In the 1970s, working as a lobbyist and policy analyst at the Environmental Policy Institute, Doyle wrote reports on the coal mining industry that helped move strip mining legislation in Congress. Lines Across The Land, a 1979 exposŽ of the U.S. rural electric cooperative system, was used by liberals and conservatives to push reforms at the U.S. Rural Electrification Administration. Doyle's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Des Moines Register, San Francisco Chronicle and TomPaine.com, among others. He has consulted with various public agencies and private clients, including the President's Council on Environmental Quality, the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the AFL-CIO, several national environmental organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. He has also appeared as an expert witness before U.S. Congressional committees and has served on the board of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies in Boston. He holds degrees from Millersville University and the Pennsylvania State University.