Category: Environment
Does Eastman Chemical Have a Conflict of Interest?
by Lou Dubose | Jun 3, 2013 | EnvironmentIs your “EA-free” baby bottle really EA-free and safe for your child to use? That question is confronting a federal judge in Texas, where Eastman Chemical Company is suing two labs it claims misrepresented the safety of Eastman plastic. EA is “estrogen active.” Not a good thing. EA chemical agents mimic natural estrogen. When ingested, […]
Silencing Science
by Lou Dubose | Jun 1, 2013 | EnvironmentThis summer in a federal courtroom in Texas, attorneys for a Tennessee corporation with $9 billion in market capitalization will try to convince a federal judge to suppress the findings of a small, private lab in Austin. The lab, founded by a professor from the University of Texas, determined that resins produced by Eastman Chemical […]
Can a Billionaire Who Got Rich Investing in Big Oil Fight Big Oil?
by Darwin Bondgraham | May 15, 2013 | Economy, Environment(BusinessWeek featured the above photo of billionaire Tom Steyer holding a jar of tar-sands oil. The article, titled “Tom Steyer: The Wrath of a Green Billionaire,” lauded his crusade to stop construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport tar-sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. As Darwin Bondgraham reports, part […]
Fertilizer Plant
by WS Editors | May 2, 2013 | EnvironmentThe Texas fertilizer plant that blew up on April 17, killing at least 15 people, appears to have been claiming an arcane exemption that allowed it to avoid targeted workplace inspections and safety requirements and enter a “streamlined prevention program” with environmental regulators, a government spokesman confirmed. The owner of the facility near Waco, West Chemical and […]
Letters: ‘The earth is doomed’
by WS Editors | May 1, 2013 | Environment, PoliticsWarning Ignored Re: “Environmentalism on the Offense for a Change,” The Washington Spectator, March 1. I was a supporter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for many years. I can no longer support it since I’m now on Social Security. These scientists have been warning us for decades that what we were […]
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