Category: News on Related Issues

Express News Service, Lucknow, August 12 Ramanuj Rastogi, the owner of Asterisk Industries was arrested from Kaiserbagh bus station this morning for producing “sub-standard” PVC pipes at a local factory.

CorpWatch, May 6th, 1998 This 1998 interview has proved prophetic. To preserve our freedom of thought and expression we should refuse to use Microsoft products and instead switch to open-source software. [Ed] CorpWatch’s Anna Couey and Joshua Karliner caught up with Noam Chomsky by telephone at his home in the Boston area to ask him…

Marla Cone, Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2007 For nearly a decade, a federal agency has been responsible for assessing the dangers that chemicals pose to reproductive health. But much of the agency’s work has been conducted by a private consulting company that has close ties to the chemical industry, including manufacturers of a compound…

Megan Tady, The New Standard, March 2, 2007 A private firm that may have ties to chemical companies is helping to run a US government agency tasked with investigating how chemicals adversely affect reproductive health.

RUTH DAVID, FORBES.COM, FEBRUARY 27, 2007 MUMBAI – Reliance Industries, India’s largest company by market capitalization, is reportedly seeking $2 billon in financing from banks to develop a gas field off India’s east coast, and it may be maneuvering to acquire a global petrochemical giant.

ASSOCIATED PRESS, FEBRUARY 13, 2007 MIDLAND – The state and Dow Chemical Co. say the results of recent testing for dioxin pollution in soils in the city, which are scheduled to be released next month, came in about as expected. Some levels may be higher than the state’s action level of 90 parts per trillion,…

AMULYA GANGULI, INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE, APRIL 22, 2007 New Delhi April 22: Even as the veiled women fundamentalists of a religious seminary in Islamabad are threatening video shop owners and setting a deadline for the introduction of Shariah laws in Pakistan, their Hindu counterparts in India have also become active, underlining a retrogressive tendency…

T. CHRISTIAN MILLER, LOS ANGELES TIMES, APRIL 22, 2007 Janette Serna was a victim of a 2002 accident involving metam sodium, one of Amvac Chemical’s biggest sellers, in the neighborhood of Edmundson Acres, near Arvin, Calif. “We can’t just pack up our stuff and leave,” she says. PHOTO: ANNIE WELLS / TPN FROM ITS FACTORY…

SABA NAQVI BHAUMIK, OUTLOOK INDIA, APRIL 30, 2007 Bhopal’s Hour Of Marital Crisis * The city came close to a riot last fortnight over a Muslim boy marrying a Sindhi-Hindu girl. * The Bajrang Dal has formed a Hindu Kanya Suraksha Committee. * The Sindhi panchayat wanted their girls to stop using mobiles or riding…

Corporate Crime Reporter XV, April 5, 2007 If multinational corporations do so much good in the world, then how come people across the globe hate them so much? That’s the question Nobel Prize winning economist and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz sought to address last week before the American Society of International Law’s annual convention…

VANITY FAIR, MAY 2007 ISSUE PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES NACHTWEY/VII Photo VF.COM JULY 24, 2006 In the 1960s, the United States blanketed the Mekong River delta with Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant more devastating than napalm. Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the chemical is still poisoning the water and coursing through the…

Special Correspondent, The Hindu, March 31, 2007 PUBLIC WORRY: Unchecked pollution in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate area in Cuddalore is causing concern to the residents. CUDDALORE: The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), which has been assigned the task of studying the pollution problem in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate area here, has inordinately delayed submitting…