Today’s Chicago Tribune (10/22/2009)
Chicago Tribune did a great job capturing the long history of mid- Michigan’s dioxin contamination and local sentiment on Dow Chemical’s tarnishing the image of the Great Lakes Bay Region (aka Saginaw...
View ArticleThe Environment Report producing series on Dow’s Dioxin…
The Environment Report from the University of Michigan is doing a week-long series of reports on the contamination of the Midland/Saginaw/Bay City area by Dow Chemical. We urge everyone to check out...
View ArticleHeads up City on the Bay
In a recent Saginaw News article, a member of the CAG voiced concern about the fate of the Saginaw Bay in the negotiated agreement between EPA, MDEQ and Dow Chemical–And well she should. Since 2002...
View ArticleIt’s the least we could do
A local Vietnam Veteran asked if this website could be posted. He, like many Vietnam veterans, was exposed to dioxin contaminated agent orange that was sprayed on the jungles and people of Vietnam....
View ArticleTittabawassee River Rising
Weather Service Watches, Warnings & Advisor Flood warning on the Tittabawassee again. Dow Chemical’s dioxin on the move… Flood Warning FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 410...
View ArticleKildee gives reassessement thumbs up!
Yesterday members of Congress, including Congressman Dale Kildee, signed onto a letter to EPA Administrator Jackson urging the agency to release the decades old dioxin reassessment. The letter was...
View ArticleReach MM Public Comment Being Taken
EPA working with MDEQ is proposing a cleanup action on a small island in the Tittabawassee River to limit contaminated sediment from moving downstream. The island is located in a stretch of river known...
View ArticleTittabawassee River Rising…. again
Heavy rains once again resulted in the T-river topping its 24 foot flood stage, thereby washing Dow Chemical’s dioxins/furans and 200 other chemicals of concern down the river onto yards, into homes,...
View ArticleThe lack of perceived value of our precious environment is depressing.
Our struggles with the EPA are about to get worse thanks to ruthless political idealism. Would looser environmental regulations help the economy? By Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON —...
View ArticleEPA will not use Dow funded UM Dioxin Study
As reported by the Saginaw News, EPA and MDEQ are again declining to use the Dow Chemical funded U of M Dioxin Exposure Study for protection of public health and response activities along the river....
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