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Madan Bhasin, a senior scientist with The Dow Chemical Co. at the South Charleston Technology Park, has received the highest honour Dow awards to its scientists and researchers. Bhasin was one of three scientists who received the Herbert H. Dow Medal on Aug. 30 during Dow’s annual science and technology meeting at the Midland Center…

Bhopal Gas Peedit Maila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information & Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz September 27, 2006 PRESS STATEMENT Today in several parts of India and in many countries people will be planting trees in memory of Sunil Kumar – a victim of the December 1984…

George Hohmann, Charleston Daily Mail, September 26, 2006 The University of Charleston’s board of trustees has agreed to accept The Dow Chemical Co.’s gift of the office tower in South Charleston known as Building 82, university President Ed Welch said. “We’re extraordinarily grateful to Dow Chemical for making the offer of what they call Building…

Harvard University no saint in Saintely Paul’s firing, resolution says; Council proclaims December 3 as “Cambridge Day of Remembrance for Victims of Industrial Disasters and Pollution” VIRGINIA A. FISHER, HARVARD CRIMSON, SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 Cambridge’s city council took on so-called corporate injustice at its meeting in City Hall last night. The council passed a resolution…

September 24, 2006 I never worked for Dow or Union Carbide, but I am somewhat sadly amused by their series of advertisements in the newspapers, magazines and on television about their interest in the “human element.” Seems to me that their only interest in the human element was to see how many of them they…

India News, September 23, 2006 Madhya Pradesh police chief Swaraj Puri was Friday removed from his post after being charged with fraud, cheating and misusing his office. The government took the step after the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the state police registered a case against Puri accusing him of fraudulently getting his son admitted…

Claudia H. Deutsch, the New York Times, September 24, 2006 Everyone knows there is a lot of money to be made in oil. But a group of big businesses is discovering there may be even greater profit in a more prosaic liquid: water. “You’ve got exploding urban populations, increased pollution and a need to address…

Rene Stutzman, Orlando Sentinel, September 23, 2006 Lake Mary, Seminole County, Florida SANFORD — The former owner of a telephone-equipment plant that sits idle atop a plume of chemical-laced groundwater is suing some of the country’s biggest chemical manufacturers, blaming them for the pollution. MONI Holdings LLC alleges the companies that sold the solvents —…

Jeremy Kahn, Slate Magazine, September 22, 2006 Toxic waste dump site Abidjan, Ivory Coast Over the last few weeks, a major environmental, medical, and political crisis has unfolded in the West African nation of Ivory Coast. On Aug. 19, a Panamanian-flagged ship owned by a Greek firm and chartered by a leading Dutch commodities broker…

Adapted from report in the Bhopal Central Chronicle, September 22, 2006 Sources within the financial world say that more than 18 foreign banks, encouraged by India’s economic liberalisation, have applied for licenses to open branches in Bhopal and other cities. The big attraction, according to banking expert JN Kapoor, is the greatly increased buying power…

‘Help me, brother, I’m going to be killed.’ SUNIL KUMAR BORN 20 JULY 1971 DIED 26 JULY 2006 SUNIL, FOR MUCH OF YOUR SHORT LIFE, you believed that people were coming to murder you. ‘Nonsense,’ we, your friends, would try to reassure you. ‘The sky’s blue. We are all here. You have done no harm…

Nate Stell, Cambridge Chronicle, September 21, 2006 The City Council will vote on a series of resolutions next Monday that reprimand Dow Chemical for an industrial disaster that occurred 22 years ago, and which it did not cause. Wait a minute, what’s this all about, and why should anyone give a darn? The disaster in…

Nobel Intent, September 20, 2006 War, described as “the total failure of the human spirit,” is not a pretty business. Now, more so than at any previous time in history, the impact of warfare is examined and analyzed by the public with an expectation that it should minimize the destruction caused. The days of carpet…

Stephanie Whittaker, Montreal Gazette, September 19, 2006 Melissa Garcia-Lamarca, coordinator of Concordia University’s sustainability program, checks the enviro-composters atop the Hall Building. Photograph by : GORDON BECK, THE GAZETTE Corporate leaders say they’re responding to demands that businesses operate in a more environmentally responsible way. From now until Dec. 12, a weekly series of stories…

It’s called the quilt of tears. It’s actually lots of quilts made up of pieces donated by loved ones of agent orange victims. It was started by the late Jennie Lesevre who lost her husband to cancer in 1989. Vietnam veteran Henry Snyder and his wife Shelia have taken the Lesevre’s cause. Henry Snyder says,…