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Date:
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 07:11:36 -0500
From:
Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide
Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Carbide's Guilty Secret Found In Bhopal Factory Papers
Bhopal, India, Nov 15, 2002. Shocking new evidence concerning Union Carbide and its ex-CEO Warren Anderson's role in the Bhopal disaster has come to light after plaintiffs and organisations representing survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster released a pivotal document disclosing that the company and its former boss had imposed "unproven technology" on their Bhopal factory in the critical MIC unit, from where 27 tonnes of poisonous gases escaped in 1984, killing 8,000 people in three days.
See full press release on the PAN UK website
Atrazine Poisoning Worse Than Suspected
Controversy erupted over new findings that atrazine may be linked to global demise of frogs. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho review the evidence on the endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic effects of atrazine, especially in the light of the non-linearity of biological activities, and call for a global ban of the herbicide.
See the complete document on the Institute of Science in Society
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