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TEXAS JAIL PROJECT, PRESS RELEASE, NOVEMBER 2, 2006 Contact: TEXAS JAIL PROJECT http://www.texasjailproject.org Diana Claitor 512-442-1216 Diana@texasjailproject.org Diane Wilson 361-785-4680 or 361-676-0663 (cell) wilsonalamobay@aol.com Austin, Texas. Texas Jail Project, a newly formed advocacy group made up of former women inmates and jail activists will speak during the public input period at the quarterly meeting of…

November 2, 2006 Protestors to outline efforts to block fast-tracking of sites that would mean more premature death, illness for Texans; preliminary hearings on TXU plants expected shortly. NEWS ADVISORY, November 2, 2006 Hunger strikers calling for a reversal of Governor Perry’s executive order fast-tracking permits for proposed coal-burning power plants in Texas will update…

e-santre.fr, November 2, 2006 English AUJOURD’HUI ENCORE, l’Inde compte 5 millions de victimes de la lèpre. Depuis 24 ans, Dominique Lapierre, auteur du best-seller « La cité de la joie » et de nombreux autres ouvrages (New York brûle-t-il ?, Il était minuit cinq à Bhopal, Plus grand que l’amour, Mille soleils ), a consacré…

Stuff.co.nz, November 2, 2006 The Health Ministry wants an additional expert to independently review a dioxin poisoning report, after critics questioned the independence of a ministry-appointed scientist. Deputy director-general of health (public health) Don Matheson said it would approach the World Health Organisation for advice about appointing the extra reviewer. The move could be seen…

The Bay Times, November 01, 2006 The state Department of Environmental Quality and the Dow Chemical Co. will host the next quarterly Tri-Cities dioxin community meeting Nov. 8 at the Horizons Conference Center, 6200 State St., Saginaw. The meeting is open to the public and will last from 6:30-9 p.m. Staff from the DEQ, Department…

Peggy Anderson, Associated Press, October 31, 2006 The region’s new Environmental Protection Agency administrator — a former Dow Chemical executive — was greeted by about two dozen protesters Monday, her first day on the job. Activists raised concerns about Elin Miller’s 1996-2004 stint at Dow and her subsequent work with Tokyo-based pesticide maker Arysta LifeScience.…

Kirk Nielsen, The Progressive Magazine, May 2006 Issue IT WAS A TOUGH ASSIGNMENT. Not as loathsome as tracking down a Nazi war criminal. But definitely not as simple as dialing up your average retired CEO and asking him to reflect on his career. Warren Martin Anderson presided over the deadliest chemical accident in modern history:…

Mihika Basu, Mumbai Newsline, October 29, 2006 Patan Village (Lonavala), October 29: Hundred homes for the homeless. Two thousand volunteers from India and abroad to build them in a week. The 23rd Jimmy Carter Work Project (JCWP) at Patan village near Lonavala is on. On Sunday, the former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner…

KAREN RICHARDSON, THE WALL ST JOURNAL, MAY 2006 Companies continue to move some manufacturing and customer-service jobs abroad. But paperwork mostly is still done in the U.S., although not always by human beings. Even companies that outsource their finance functions—processing accounts receivables and payables, payroll and other human-resource tasks—often send that work to units or…

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA, OCTOBER 28, 2006 MUMBAI, OCTOBER 28: Dow Chemical International’s Indian arm will pump in Rs 2.2 crores over two years in the Jimmy Carter Work Project, a humanitarian venture launched by the former US President, in the country. The money would be used to construct 65 houses for the poor near…

Sundeep Khanna, Indian Express, October 27, 2006 With Enron’s Jeff Skilling sentenced this week to 24 years in prison, it’s time to examine why India’s record of dealing with white-collar fraud is so abysmal Is Jeff Skilling, the former CEO of Enron more guilty than some Indian corporate chieftains? What was Skilling’s crime? More than…

Jerry Mazza, Online Journal Associate Editor, October 25, 2006 Ian Parker’s recent New Yorker Profile of Christopher Hitchens, “He Knew He Was Right,” aptly subtitled “How a former socialist became the Iraq war’s fiercest defender” is the fastidiously told tale of Christopher Hitchens hitching himself to the Death Star of the administration and its preemptive,…

See the story in Other Bhopals Householders of Midland, Michigan need to beware of being lulled into a false sense of security by Dow’s attempts to convince them that dioxin isn’t as bad as all that. (Use the search facility to find several bhopal.net reports about dodgy health studies carried out by Dow’s paid stooges.…

LYN HUMPHREYS, TARANAKI DAILY NEWS, OCTOBER 26 2006 New Plymouth’s Judy Eva lived near the Ivon Watkins-Dow plant in the 1960s. Her two daughters were born with deformities possibly linked to dioxin. PHOTO: NIC GIBSON/TARANAKI DAILY NEWS A New Plymouth woman was shocked to see photos of her deformed newborn baby girl on a television…

The Associated Press, October 25, 2006 BRUSSELS, Belgium The European Union on Wednesday extended antidumping duties on ethanolamines imports from three U.S. companies for two years. The three companies are Dow Chemical Co., Huntsman Corp. and INEOS Americas LLC. Such duties were first imposed on the U.S. companies in 1994. The ethanolamines can be used…