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The Charade Is Over: Tribune Series Reveals Chemical Industry Lies Like Tobacco

Andy Igrejas | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Safe Chemicals Act, Tobacco, Chemicals, Dow Chemical, American Chemistry Council, Green News

Our current chemical safety policy amounts to an honor system and it's now perfectly clear that too many of these companies simply have no honor. It is past time for Congress to pass the Safe Chemicals Act by Senator Lautenberg.

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Climate Impact Day

Alana Lea | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Environmental Degredation, The Nature Conservancy, Atlantic Rain Forest, The Lorax, Dow Chemical, Amazon Deforestation, Climate Change, Climate Impact Day, Monsato, Nature Conservancy, Climate Impact, Deforestation, Green News

I finally discovered, over the last couple of years developing a reforestation project in Brazil, where I was born, that deforestation and reforestation are both profitable.

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'Green News Report' - May 1, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Coal, Climate Scientists, Drought, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Dow Chemical, Climate Science, Exxonmobil, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Wind Energy, Barack Obama, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Pacific Garbage Patch, Wildlife; Endangered Species; ALEC, Poll, Pipeline, Louisiana, Oil Spill, Big Oil, Electric Cars, Clouds, Ibm, Fisheries, Overfishing, American Legislative Exchange Council, Nrc, Water, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Oceans, Aei, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

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Should Dow Get a Veto Over Government Scientists?

Andy Igrejas | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Science, Congress, Chemicals, Health, Dow Chemical, Report-on-Carcinogens, The National Toxicology Program, House Small Business Committee, House Science Committee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Health, Green News

An obscure Congressional hearing on Tuesday became a flashpoint in a very important conflict: the attempt by the chemical industry to gain a veto over the work of government scientists. This time, however, the scientists fought back.

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'Green News Report' - April 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Green News Report, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Solar Energy, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Dow Chemical, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Ice Melt, Wind Energy, Roundup, Antarctica, David Cameron, Exxonmobil, Factory Farms, Clean Energy, Herbicides, Pollution, Coal, Monsanto, Drought, Nuclear, Stephen Chu, Britain, Sea Level Rise; Chernobyl, Iea, Corn, Oil Profits, Agent Orange, Toxic Chemicals, Donald Trump, Wildfires, International Energy Agency, Ice Sheets, Jimmy Fallon, Slow Jam the News, Green News

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'Green News Report' - April 24, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Epa, Regulation, Green News Report, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, Solar Energy, Louisiana, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Earth Day, Mitt Romney, Seafood, Dow Chemical, Mexico, Factory Farming, Green News

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University of Michigan's Dubious Deal With Dow Chemical

Carol Polsgrove | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: University of Michigan, Sustainability, Dow Chemical, Academic Freedom, Corporations, Green News

The terms of Dow Chemical's $10 million gift to the University of Michigan ought to raise eyebrows in universities across the country.

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Lobbying Groups Fight to Stop FDA From Regulating Chemical Linked to Erectile Dysfunction and Miscarriages

Suzanne Merkelson | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Bpa, Fda, Dow Chemical, Health, Bpa Health, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Food Safety, FDA and BPA, Dangers of Bpa, Bpa Controversy, Bpa Fda, Politics News

Curiously missing from the recent showering praise on the FDA are the three biggest U.S. producers of BPA: Saudi Basic Industries Corp., Bayer AG and Dow Chemical Co.

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Chemical Marketplace: The Fine Print on a Common Pesticide, Writ Large

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.27.2012

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.More than 80,000 chemicals are produced, used, and present in the United States. This is one of their stories. Do you we...

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Plant Cleans Up After Polluting City Over Past Century

AP | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Dioxin Dow Chemical, Video, Dow Chemical Company, Dow Chemical Dioxin, Dioxin Clean Up Michigan, Michigan Chemical Clean Up, Dow Chemical, Michigan Dioxin, Dow Chemical Dioxin Clean Up, Dioxin Clean Up, Ap, Dow Chemical Clean Up, Green News

MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — Dow Chemical Co. has submitted a plan for removing soils contaminated with dioxin from residential areas in Midland, Mich., th...

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The Shadow CIA: WikiLeaks Trove Shows How Companies Gather Intel

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Bhopal, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Stratcap, Dow Chemical, Stratfor, Wikileaks, Bhopal Disaster, Shadow Cia, Business News

Past WikiLeaks document dumps have offered peeks at how governments gather intelligence. The latest promises a look at how private companies do it. ...

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'Green News Report' - February 21, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Rick Santorum, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Republicans, Iran, Dioxin, Peter Gleick, Drought, Dow Chemical, Israel, Toxic Water, Wisconsin, Solar Energy; Subsidies, Heartland Institute, Water Pollution, Mining, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Green News

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Dow and Monsanto's Plan to Increase the Toxic Pesticides Sprayed in America's Heartland

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Farming, Pesticides, Biotechnology, Monsanto, Corn, Dow Chemical, Beef, Roundup Herbicide, Sustainable Farming, Agent Orange, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Green News

These two biotech giants have developed a weed management program that, if successful, would go a long way toward a predicted doubling of harmful herbicide use in America's corn belt during the next decade.

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Dow Agrees To Clean Up Century-Old Pollution

AP | By JOHN FLESHER | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Midland Michigan, Video, Dow Chemical, Dow Chemical Midland Michigan, Epa, Dow Dioxin, Dioxins, Dow Pollution, Dow Dioxin Cleanup, Detroit News

MIDLAND, Mich. -- Michigan environmental regulators said Thursday that they reached a long-sought deal with Dow Chemical Co. to clean up to 1,400 resi...

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Making the Business Case for Conservation

Mark Tercek | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Freeport, The Nature Conservancy, Natural Capital, Dow Chemical, Conservation, Sustainability, Brazos River, Green Economy, Mark Tercek, Green News

What is the business case for conservation? Just a few years ago, I don't think many people in either the business or conservation communities would have thought to even pose that question. But times are changing.

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Obama To Announce A New High-Tech Manufacturing Effort

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Carnegie Mellon, White House, John McCain, John Boehner, Dow Chemical, Public-Private Partnerships, 112th Congress, Barack Obama, Pittsburgh, Republicans, Business News

PITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama called on Friday for a "renaissance in American manufacturing" that would replace shuttered steel mills with...

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9 Global Ideas To Fix America's Economy

Bloomberg Business Week | Peter Coy | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Taxes, Thailand, Unemployment, Turkey, Inflation, Germany, Brazil, Economy, Dow Chemical, Great Recession, Mortgage Crisis, Obama Administration, Budget Deficit, Economic Recovery, Canada, Business News

Democrats and Republicans are dug in like soldiers at Verdun over what to do about the sputtering U.S. economy. Exhausted by the political stalemate, ...

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What Dow Doesn't Want You to Know About Your Water (VIDEO)

Anna Lappe | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Environment, Toxics, Greenwashing, Dow, Dow Chemical, Video, Green News

I believe in inclusiveness and engagement in discussing the future of our water, but I also believe we must pursue those principles within a context that is honest. To do otherwise is to participate in what is popularly called "greenwashing."

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California Is for Plovers, Not Polystyrene

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Food Packaging, Polystyrene, Polystyrene Ban, Malibu Lagoon, Alan Lowenthal, Dow Chemical, Audubon Society, Carcinogen, Coastal Snowy Plover, Neurotoxin, SB 568, Snowy Plover, Sytrofoam, Green News

The hope in roping off sections of plover habitat in Malibu Lagoon is that we will be able to share the beach with our feathered friends and that the plovers will nest and reproduce.

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Don't Get "Target-ed": How Companies Can Limit Political Spending Risks

Bruce Freed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Pepsi Co, Twitter, Dow Chemical, Center for Political Accountability, Target Corp, Target, Ups, Facebook, Citizens United, Political Spending, Pfizer, Business News

What's even clearer in the wake of Citizens United and Target's experience is that any corporation engaging in political activity without disclosure and a rigorous governance oversight process heightens its exposure to risk.

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The End of Incumbent Capitalism?

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Wall Street Journal, Economy, Renewable Energy, Rio Tinto, Clean Technology, Dow Chemical, Business News

The mainstream business community and clean tech innovators alike are terrified that the Tea Party's hostility towards the national government constitutes a serious threat to the economy.

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WATCH: HuffPost's Marcus Baram Discusses Corporations Doing Business In Libya On MSNBC

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uslba, Chevron, Bp, Raytheon, Halliburton, Exxonmobil, u.s.-Libya Business Association, Marathon Oil, Dick Cheney, Gaddafi, Libya, Video, Northrop Grumman, National-Foreign-Trade-Council, Muammar Gaddafi, Dow Chemical, Libya Protests, Conoco, Business News

Huffington Post Reporter Marcus Baram appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday to discuss U.S. corporations that have had business dealings in Libya. Baram recen...

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Dow Asks, What's the Business Case for Protecting Nature?

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

The business logic for protecting nature has always been a harder sell than making the case for other green initiatives. Dow is now tackling this issue, working with The Nature Conservancy to try and make the business logic clearer.

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America, Inc.: How to Take the Country Back from Corporate Control

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philadelphia, Ecuador, Warfare, Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Health, Dow Chemical, Nature, Environment, Citizens United, People's Agreement on Climate Change, United Declaration, Politics News

After the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, I began to envision a new American flag -- one with the stars replaced by the corporations that call the shots.

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What Are CEOs Doing at COP16? - VIDEO

David Kroodsma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hub Culture, Felipe Calderon, Coca-Cola, cop16, Cancun, Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Femsa, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News

If fighting climate change really is good for business, why has the U.S. failed to pass climate legislation?

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