Category: News on Related Issues
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Rumsfeld and Saddam: partners in guilt
David Swanson, OpEd News, October 24, 2006 Rumsfeld and his ally Saddam The White House has arranged to announce two days before the November 7, 2006, elections a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and, no doubt, plans to finally murder him. Meanwhile an appeals process is delaying until at least five days after the elections…
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Dioxin testing in Midland begins; city participating
KATHIE MARCHLEWSKI, MIDLAND DAILY NEWS, OCTOBER 24, 2006 With permission from property owners, The Dow Chemical Co. Monday began testing Midland soils for dioxin levels. And Midland City Council on Monday gave the go-ahead to have city-owned parcels added to the list of to-be-tested properties. As part of Dow’s agreement with the state that it…
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Could dioxin contamination in New Plymouth be bigger than acknowledged?
Radio New Zealand, October 24, 2006 The Ministry of Health is to look into claims that significant mistakes were made in a study of dioxin contamination in New Plymouth. From 1962 to 1987 the Ivon Watkins Dow factory made the herbicide 245T, which contained a dioxin. Last year a Ministry of Health report said people…
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Photo exhibition on Agent Orange victims opens in New York
THANH NIEN NEWS, OCTOBER 20, 2006 A photo exhibition on Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange entitled “Sufferings Pains and Smiles” opened in Brooklyn, New York Thursday. The week-long exhibition displays 30 intimate black and white photographs revealing moments in the lives of people who continue to suffer the effects of Agent Orange, a toxic defoliant…
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Government botched ethyl mercury safety study
LIDIA WASOWICZ, UPI, OCTOBER 20, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20 (UPI) — Researchers analyzing new study results have concluded the government at least partly botched its job when it was assessing the danger posed by the mercury-based preservative thimerosal that once was widely used in children’s vaccines. The story begins in the fall of 1971…
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New delay for VX waste plan
JEFF MONTGOMERY, THE NEWS JOURNAL, OCTOBER19, 2006 Effects of VX gas exposure in Halabja An amendment in a defense spending bill has sidetracked Army plans to send chemical weapon disposal waste to a Delaware River treatment plant, three south Jersey lawmakers said today. Reps. Rob Andrews, Rob. Andrews, Frank LoBiondo and Jim Saxton said the…
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Activists demand cleanup of Dickson pollution: Dumping in poor, mostly black area 'environmental injustice,' group says
KATE HOWARD, DICKSON HERALD, OCTOBER 19, 2006 Environmental activists called on city and state officials Wednesday to clean up the “obvious case of environmental injustice” they believe led to pollution in the rural, mostly black neighborhood near the closed Dickson County landfill. At an informational meeting in north Nashville, members of the Tennessee Coalition for…
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In the grip of nuclear power
Rebekah Kendal, iAfrica.com, October 19 2006 There’s something vaguely scary about the notion of nuclear power. Images of Chernobyl, nuclear weapons and all the horror that they convey all too often spring to mind when we talk about nuclear energy. But with an energy crisis looming in South Africa — and the possibility of blackouts…
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This generation’s Agent Orange?
Gulf War veteran tells local audiences that depleted uranium is causing countless ailments John Larson, Mountain Mail, October 19, 2006 Demacio Lopez measures the radiation level in small fragments of shrapnel that came from wounds received by Jerry Wheat during the Gulf War. According to the readings, the radiation level measured 12 times higher than…
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Firm accepts 'moral responsibility' for mess. (Sounds familiar, means nothing: Union Carbide took "moral" responsibility for Bhopal.)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – The company that unloaded chemical waste blamed for the deaths of 10 people in Ivory Coast has said it accepts moral, but not legal, responsibility for the incident, Dutch media reported on Wednesday. IOL, SOUTH AFRICA, OCTOBER 19, 2006 The Dutch state broadcaster NOS cited Eric de Turckheim, co-founder of the…
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The politics of pollution
Mike Ketcher and sons Grant and Jake, along with Capt. Rich Russell and the nice cobia they caught aboard the Enterpriserecently. I’m not an environmentalist, tree-hugger or political activist. I’m a fisherman. My frustration with the politics of pollution and my desire to see it stop began not altruistically, but because fishing was getting screwed…
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Chemical waste dumping leads to fish deformities
CAPTAIN FRED LIFTON, MARCO ISLAND SUN TIMES, OCTOBER 19, 2006 His name is Gerald Nicks and he lives in Goodland. He’s a Sarasota native and has been a commercial fisherman on Florida’s Gulf Coast all of his life and he thinks he has the answer to something that’s been bothering me for about 15 years.…
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Apex officials return to plant to combat chemical reaction
CHANTELLE JANELLE, WIS TV, OCTOBER 18, 2006 (Raleigh, NC-AP) October 18, 2006 – Officials say a small chemical reaction at the site of EQ Industrial Services in Apex has been contained. It’s been nearly two weeks since a raging inferno at the same warehouse run by EQ forced thousands of people from their homes. Wednesday’s…
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10 million people at risk from pollution
TRACEE HERBAUGH, ASSOCIATED PRESS, OCTOBER 18, 2006 Residents fish in a polluted lake in Guiyang in southwest China’s Guizhou province Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006. Chronic pollution and chemical accidents have tainted most of China’s canals, rivers and lakes, and the country is suffering from a critical water shortage. (AP Photo) NEW YORK — More than…
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From rich to poor: Ivory Coast tragedy highlights hazardous waste trade on rise
The Associated Press, October 17, 2006 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast Not long after hundreds of tons of toxic waste was jettisoned around Ivory Coast’s main city under cover of darkness, Jean-Jacques Kakou awoke like thousands of others here to an overpowering stench that burned his eyes and made it hard to breathe. Three weeks later, he…