Bush admin ousts top EPA official over Dow Chemical pollution case 7

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   pianoyoga Posted 9:04 am
   02 May 2008

   I like her Earth Day speechMary Gade comes across as a decent career environmental lawyer who went into the field for the right reasons, lots of earthy personality, not too fancy.  I wonder if she's still a Bush supporter...  
   Dow Chemical's Wikipedia article is illuminating - it is a controversial entry, and the Discussion tab is worth a visit.  Manufacturers of Agent Orange and napalm, involved in 96 Superfund dump sites, major air polluter.  Sold a soil fumigant, DBCP, to Dole Fruit after it had been linked with male sterility and banned in the US. Dow and Dole sued in Latin American courts, lost, owe $600 million, refuse to pay. And, I suppose, everyone's heard of Bhopal.
   I don't see how we can have environmental regulation of multinational corporations if the companies are allowed to shrug off all financial and criminal penalties for their wrongful acts.  

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   Delay And Deny Posted 12:28 pm
   02 May 2008

   Superfund Pork Barrel
   
   There's Superfund site right outside my office window.
   It's been there since 2001.
   It's still there.
   Once in a while guys in Hazmat suits come around...but not lately.
   Will it ever be cleaned up?  Does the EPA actually clean up these "Superfund" sites?

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   usandthem Posted 2:24 pm
   02 May 2008

   superfundWhat a joke!No,texeme,I do not think that the superfund does or will do anything.We have a superfund site in our small town of 15,000 and nothing has been done in 8 years now.There was a mysterious fire that burned part of the factory this past winter.The blame was on homeless people,but no one was charged.
   
    Pianoyoga,you are bang on the mark.No financial or criminal penalties equals Big Business gets richer and does what it chooses and the poor just die.

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   human power Posted 4:18 pm
   02 May 2008

   Just dreamingWouldn't it be lovely if corporations had to prove that they were acting in the public good or be de-chartered. Actually, that is how incorporation originally worked: limited liability in exchange for some definable public good.

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   Delay And Deny Posted 4:39 am
   03 May 2008

   Less is Morelinked with male sterility
   Wouldn't that be a better thing both for their population...and ours?

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   EcoAvenger Posted 7:50 pm
   04 May 2008

   Poisoned farmworkersSterility without informed consent is never acceptable.

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   perk Posted 11:43 pm
   05 May 2008

   Where is Obama on this?I have been following Mary's dogged campaign for some months with interest. I have sent more than a few emails with 'nary a response from the Senators from Ill. Why is Obama silent on this? For that matter, with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate, I would think this would be a great example of Republican cahoots with the Chem-boys to be played out in a public hearing.
   We know Bush administration is evil, but why the silence from the Democrats?

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