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By Kathie Marchlewski The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has released its annual report on toxic chemicals released or managed by Michigan manufacturers, including The Dow Chemical Co. The 2004 data includes a statewide decline of discharges, though in Midland, Dow has reported slight increases, including in dioxin discharged into the Tittabawassee River. Dow’s discharges…

Dow Chemical's work plans "fundamentally flawed" and "critically deficient" says EPA

Mar 2, 2006

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The recent work plans submitted by Dow Chemical to MDEQ which were at the center of the recent DEQ- Dow meeting on Feb. 9th, have been reviewed by EPA Region V and the review is highly critical of Dow’s plans. The work plans are of highest priority because they determine how the state proceeds with…

Homage to Bill Crowe

Feb 13, 2006

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<img alt="todayscatch.gif" src="https://www.bhopal.net/alliedcampaigns/todayscatch.gif" width="380" height="46" SEAWORTHY NEWS — Issue 2, February 8, 2006 This issue of Today’s Catch is dedicated to the memory of Bill Crowe (right), publisher and editor of Fishermen’s Voice newspaper who died Saturday, January 28, 2006 following a three-year battle with cancer of the appendix. All of us at Clean Catch…

Students at 60 colleges on five continents demand justice for Bhopal

Dec 1, 2004

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NEW MASS STUDENT MOVEMENT BUILDING AGAINST DOW CHEMICAL: LARGEST SINCE THE VIETNAM WAR Students from more than 60 colleges, universities, and high schools worldwide have organized events this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, and to demand that Dow Chemical resolve its legal and moral responsibilities for the “Hiroshima of the…

People breathing poison in Cuddalore

Sep 17, 2004

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For the first time in India the air that people living near industries breathe has been tested for toxic gases. The results confirm local people’s worst fears, say Sipcot Community Health Monitors, who carried out the study under the direction of Denny Larson of Global Community Monitor. “In nine years I have seen at least…

Bhopal survivors support Toulouse victims

Aug 25, 2004

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Bhopal survivors and campaigners are in the southern French city of Toulouse to join with victims of the September 2001 explosion at a chemical factory owned by the AZF company, which killed 30 people and left countless more damaged. The Toulouse victims in their quest for justice have encountered the same obstacles as the chemical…

Bhopal vigil in support of Vietnamese Agent Orange victims

Aug 11, 2004

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Staff of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic in Bhopal, and a large number of their supporters held a vigil at Roshanpura Square today in support of the victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam. The Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange have declared August 10th, the first day that the US army sprayed chemicals over Vietnam, to be…

Chemical plant burns down – no one is responsible

Jul 28, 2004

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On 6 July, 2004, a little after 2 a.m., residents living downwind of the Hindustan Insecticides Ltd (HIL) pesticide factory in Eloor, Kerala, were alerted to a fire in the factory’s endosulphan plant. Based on varying accounts, the fire raged for between three and four hours and gutted most of the five-storey endosulphan plant. Twelve…

Chlorine leak from rogue plant hospitalises 23

Jul 19, 2004

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A chlorine leak at 6 p.m. on 18 July, 2004, from a pipeline running between Chemplast Sanmar’s chlorine plant and its adjacent fumed silica plant in Mettur Dam, Tamilnadu, sent 23 people to the hospital. More than 50 people are reported to have fainted after inhaling the chlorine fumes. A 22-day old child, and two…

Chemical disaster hits Kerala, hundreds affected

Jul 7, 2004

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Massive fire in the Hindustan Insecticides Limited Factory in Eloor, Kerala burns down Endosulfan plant. Hundreds of people living around face severe health problems. This incident, which happened in the early hours of 6 July is nowhere mentioned in any of the major Indian or international news media. The Periyar Malineekarana Virudha Samithi (PMVS –…

Stavropoulos admits own incompetence as 40 Million shares go against Dow

May 16, 2004

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in Community Blog, Uncategorized

At Dow’s AGM today, with the shareholder’s vote on a Bhopal resolution safely out of the way, William Stavropoulos finally admitted he had ‘misspoken’ at last year’s meeting when denying the existence of outstanding criminal charges against Union Carbide. After the confession, Stavropoulos slithered away from every other question on the dreaded criminal charges more…

Echoes of Bhopal in California

Apr 17, 2004

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Rashida Bee, Margie Richards from Norco, Louisiana, Hilton Kelley from Port Arthur, Texas — all residents of toxic hotspots — today went on a toxic tour of one of the Bay Area Bhopals, guided by Denny Larson of Bucket Brigade fame and Henry Clark of the local NGO West Country Toxic Coalition. Richmond, California is…

Diane Wilson faces jail for Dow protest

Jan 24, 2004

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Diane Wilson, “famed shrimp-boat-captain-turned-activist and merciless scourge of Dow”, attends a Texan court on Monday, 26 Jan for a jury trial. She’s facing charges of criminal trespass and resisting arrest, stemming from her August, 2002 protest action at the former Carbide plant in Seadrift, Texas. If convicted, Diane will have to serve around three to…

Activists mount global challenge to Dow

Jan 16, 2004

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