Tag: allies

KATHIE MARCHLEWSKI, MIDLAND DAILY NEWS, AUGUST 1O, 2OO6 Starting at the Midland’s Tridge, crews of “fluvial geomorphologists” — that is, people who study rivers — have been busily collecting samples of sediment, measuring depth and movement. They’re starting first with six miles of the Tittabawassee, but plan to work on all 22 miles that stretch…

TERRY MILLER, MIDLAND DAILY NEWS, AUGUST 8, 2006 On May 13, 2006, the News carried a front-page story by Kathie Marchlewski entitled “Environmentalists encouraged by Dow plan.” The context was the May Dow/DEQ meeting informing the public of progress on the Tittabawassee River floodplain cleanup. As the summer wears down, and another public meeting is…

JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, JULY 28, 2006 Environmental groups lashed out at mid-Michigan lawmakers this week for advocating dioxin cleanup standards much higher than federal regulators intended. Armed with a letter from the head of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, environmentalists chastised lawmakers who have…

THE SAGINAW NEWS, JULY 18, 2006 Officials at the National Academy of Sciences and the World Health Association last week added new pieces to the Tittabawassee River toxin puzzle. One of the new pieces: The level of the most potent form of dioxins — while still potentially hazardous — was lower than previously thought. The…

Warning, this story contains dangerously high levels of irony KELLY NANKERVIS, MIDLAND DAILY NEWS, JULY 16, 2006 Phil Sworden, a district forester with Conservation District, helps out at a water booth they have set up for children during Riverdays Saturday. The display is designed to educate people on water quality and what polution does to…

KATHIE MARCHLEWSKI, MIDLAND DAILY NEWS. JULY 12, 2006 The long-awaited and objective third-party review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s reassessment of dioxin released Tuesday creates more work and more questions, but both The Dow Chemical Co. and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality agree the dialogue it creates is valuable. The National Academies’ National Research Council…

JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, JULY 12, 2006 At the National Academy of Sciences, everyone’s a winner … or so it seems in the day since the scientific society released its critique of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s examination of dioxin. Environmental groups applauded the academy’s description of dioxin as a “likely” human carcinogen and…

JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, JULY 11, 2006 The Tittabawassee River is less toxic than once thought, a World Health Organization report suggests. But it’s still toxic. The World Health Organization reported findings this month that dramatically downgrade the toxicity of one of the chief contaminants in the Tittabawassee River. The organization found that a…

DEBORAH ZABARENKO, REUTERS, JULY 11, 2006 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The cancer-causing chemical dioxin — present in some U.S. water, soil, food supplies and most Americans’ bodies — should be cleaned up to a new, much higher standard, a U.S. scientific panel reported on Tuesday. Experts assembled by the National Academies’ National Research Council confirmed many…

SAGINAW BAY TIMES, JUNE 28, 2006 Old Saginaw fish decoy The state Department of Community Health last week released a discouraging report that anglers continue to ignore fish advisories in the Saginaw Bay watershed. Why would Saginaw Valley residents risk eating fish from contaminated rivers? We can think of three reasons: 1. They don’t care…

The evidence of a million malformed Vietnamese children to the contrary, dioxin isn’t that bad for you. This is what Dow Chemical would like Tittabawassee residents to believe. The company view has once more been given an uncritical airing in Dow’s home town newspaper. The author is Russ Harding, former director of the Michigan Department…

THE BAY CITY TIMES, JUNE 24, 2006 People are eating fish they shouldn’t in the Saginaw Bay watershed, the Michigan Department of Community Health says. The agency on Monday released preliminary findings from a fish consumption survey of people fishing and eating fish from the Saginaw Bay and Saginaw, Tittabawassee and Shiawassee rivers. From March…

JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, MAY 13, 2006 DOW: NUMBERS DISTORT RISK What state regulators tout as “science” seems more like science fiction, Dow Chemical Co. officials say. The company has released data challenging the state Department of Community Health’s claims that a person who lives and dines along the Tittabawassee River consumes up to…

KATHIE MARCHLEWSKI, MIDLAND DAILY NEWS, MAY 11, 2006 DOW WANTS RESULTS DIOXIN SURVEY KEPT CONFIDENTIAL FOR HOUSEHOLDERS’ SAKES, DO NOT ENVISAGE REMEDIAL ACTION ANY TIME IN THE NEXT DECADE The Midland residents whose properties have been chosen for the first phase of dioxin-related soil sampling are expected to be notified in June. A final resolution…

JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, MAY 10, 2006 “TWO FOR THE GOOD GUYS!” EXCLAIMS MORONIC OFFICIAL KOSKI AS TOWNSFOLK FAIL IN THEIR BID TO KEEP TOXIC DIXOIN SLUDGE AWAY FROM THEIR HOMES DETROIT — A U.S. District Court judge has refused to stop construction of a nearly 300-acre storage basin for dredge spoils along the…