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Richard Fagerlund, San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 2006 Q: Your answer to a recent question about black widow spiders includes mention of Dursban. What’s happened to this product? A: Dursban, a chlorpyrifos pesticide, is no longer allowed in residential pest control. The following agreement between the EPA and Dow Chemical specifies the cases in which…

UPCOMING.ORG, SAN DIEGO, NOVEMBER 25, 2006 Data ©Navteq,TeleAtlas</small Saturday, December 2, 2006 12:00 PM Horton Plaza 324 Horton Plaza San Diego, California 92101 32.7141, -117.161 The event will be a re-enactment of the tragedy of December 2nd 1984 in Bhopal, India. The Association for India’s Development and Amnesty International volunteers will perform a dien-in and…

THE HINDU, NOVEMBER 23, 2006 New Delhi, November. 23 (PTI): Bhopal’s heritage architecture has largely been given a miss as it does not conform to any genre – but therein lies the beauty of the designs influenced by the French, Mughal, Persian, Arabic, British, Afghan and closer home Rajasthani and Gond styles. An Indo-French venture,…

Youth on Cycles for Cuddalore – 28 November to 2 December Cuddalore is another Bhopal in the making. Youth from Chennai, Cuddalore and Mettur will cycle from Cuddalore to Chennai to raise awareness about the environmental issues confronting residents of SIPCOT, Cuddalore, and highlight the threats of pollution-intensive industrialization facing Cuddalore. The cycle tour will…

Lenini’s Tomb blog, November 22, 2006 The things that occur to a person under capitalism are breathtaking. For instance, in 1941, an unassuming and fameless chemist from Harvard was sent by the government to investigate explosions at a DuPont car plant. The most significant thing he discovered was that the liquid divinylacetyline turns into an…

Devendra Khurana, Bhopal Central Chronicle, November 21, 2006 [Shame about the Gas Tragedy, let’s have some cricket, seems to be the summary of this bizarre piece, Ed] Bhopal is a city that has contrasting shades. On the one hand, one can find tree lined avenues and greenery and on the other one can feel that…

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz November 18, 2006 PRESS STATEMENT Four organizations working on issues of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today condemned the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for his abject failure to…

Vinay Kumar, Vinayworld.blogspot.com, November 15, 2006 Aishwarya Rai was born in the south Indian state of Karnataka in Mangalore on 1st Nov 1973. She was younger of the two siblings, her brother being 3 yrs elder. When she was about 4 years old her family moved to Bombay permanently. Her father worked as a merchant…

Press Release, Golin Harris, November 15, 2006 WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 — Several leading chemical manufacturers today announced plans to replace their entire U.S. and Canadian chlorine tank car fleets by the end of 2017 with new rail tank cars that will feature significantly enhanced safety and security attributes. Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem), The Dow Chemical…

The Dow Chemical Company, November 14, 2006 Buffalo Grove, IL – ANGUS Chemical Company, the leading manufacturer of nitromethane, will exit supply of all grades of its NITROFUEL™ brand racing nitromethane from all top fuel racing venues across the United States at the end of the 2006 season. This follows ANGUS’ exit of NITROFUEL supply…

Mayank Austen Soofi, Ruined by Reading, November 14, 2006 During the second session of the Indian Magazine Congress 2006 , Prabhu Chawla, India Today Editor, asked why there was so much focus on content and so little discussion on the marketing of magazines. (Source: Agency News) Collage by Ms. Renu Rani Tyagi India Today was…

Matthew Russell Lee, Inner City Press at the UN, November 13, 2006 UNITED NATIONS – In the name of disarmament, the Uganda People’s Defense Force is dropping bombs in Eastern Uganda, most recently killing ten Kenyans near the border. Since the UN Development Program was, as of mid-2006, funding the Ugandan government’s disarmament programs, on…

Anthony Cronin, The Day, Connecticut, November 12, 2006 The Dow Chemical plant in Gales Ferry, just upriver on the Thames from the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, shared the burden of needed maintenance dredging. PHOTO: SEAN D. ELLIOT A unique partnership between the U.S. Navy and the Dow Chemical Co. plant in Gales Ferry, brokered…

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL, MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 8, 2006 ICJB press release here BHOPALIS, RATHER THAN BHOPAL, are perhaps the worst nightmare of the chemical industry. Just as India’s high-profile alms-seekers – the Ministry of Chemicals, the Planning Commission – were all set to lay out the red carpet to chemical multinationals at the…

Students for Bhopal, November 12, 2006 The AID chapter at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN added another leaf to their Bhopal campaign by organizing a protest against Dow Corning, which was present at a career fair the IU campus on Thursday, November 2nd, 2006. Over 30 volunteers from AID, enthused by their recent hosting of the…