‘The world is against them’: new era of cancer lawsuits threaten Monsanto & other glyphosate manufacturers including Dow Chemical According to the Guardian: “In an historic verdict in August, a jury ruled that Monsanto had caused […]
The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 60 days, from August 9th, to finalize a ban of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. The court’s decision overturned what was
The Bhopal Medical Appeal has joined the signatories of a letter to the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, urging the EU to revise its own Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). The letter calls on the
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In the June 2018 issue of the Safety Institute of Australia’s publication ‘OHS Professional’ BMA’s Tim Edwards and Colin Toogood describe a litany of occupational health and safety transgressions from the earliest days of the Union
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Donald Trump has nominated a Dow Chemical corporate lawyer to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office responsible for emergency response to hazardous spills and the clean-up of the most contaminated sites in the US. If
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Baskut Tuncak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, is ‘deeply concerned’ about the merger between Dow and DuPont, which
Six of the world’s largest chemical companies are about to merge and create three new mega-corporations. They will control much of the world’s food supply, promoting sterile crops grown in a barren landscape, soaked in dangerous
Enquiry Requested on Reversal of Proposed Dow Pesticide Ban After the extraordinary decision by the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Donald Trump appointee Scott Pruitt, to reverse the proposed ban on the pesticide
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Dow Chemical Asks US Government Agencies to Ignore US Government Scientists’ Pesticide Study Over the last four years, US Federal Government scientists have been investigating the effects of organophosphate pesticides on endangered species. Their 10,000 page
@Timeline_Now @timelinenews No One Has Cleaned Up This 1980s Toxic Disaster in India https://www.facebook.com/timelinenews/videos/1783488148341308/
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‘Dow Chemical Want Farmers to Keep Using a Pesticide Linked to Autism and ADHD.’ Chlorpyrifos is a neurotoxic pesticide widely used in U.S. agriculture (Dow’s chlorpyrifos trade names include: Dursban, Lorsban, Lock-On Insecticide, Cobalt). Generally sprayed on
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A Toxic Merger Update The controversial merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont remains fraught with issues. Despite being under investigation by the EU, Dow’s website seems to reveal that it sees the merger as a done
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