Trespass Against Us

by Doyle, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781567512687
• ISBN10: 1567512682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-30
• Publisher: Common Courage Pr

Summary

From its "accident" at Bhopal by its Union Carbide company to Agent Orange, from Napalm to Plutonium, Dow Chemical has been at the center of many of the worst chemical disasters in history. In this explosive expose of the chemical giant, Jack Doyle reviews the legacy and the future of this gigantic chemical octopus. A comprehensive overview of the company's dirty deeds from dioxin to Greenwashing, Doyle provides an indispensable history with a grave warning for what's up next.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. In The Blood	1	(20)
The Dow body burden.
2. House of Wonders	21	(30)
How a small Michigan bleach maker became a corporate giant.
3. Dow Goes to War	51	(28)
Napalm, Agent Orange, and 2,4,5-T
4. Dioxin in The Dark	79	(26)
The slow coming-to-light of a nasty chemical.
5. Dowicides	105	(26)
Beating the bugs, poisoning the well.
6. "Saving" 2,4-D	131	(14)
Fifty years of a toxic herbicide.
7. Plastic	145	(28)
"Ben, I just want to say one word to you."
8. Taken to The Cleaners	173	(12)
Solvents take away the grease & grime-and more.
9. Rocky Flats	185	(12)
Plutonium pollution & messy management.
10. Poisoning Canada	197	(24)
Mercury, toxic trains, & bad air.
11. Dow Environmentalism	221	(30)
Dow's "greening," politics, & P.R.
12. Silicone	251	(24)
Chemicals in women: the implant fiasco.
13. Men At Work	275	(16)
Poisons on the job & busting unions.
14. The DBCP Saga	291	(16)
"No sperm seen."
15. "Dow Water"	307	(22)
Pollution & peril in Louisiana.
16. Danger Zones	329	(22)
The chemistry doesn't always stay in the container.
17. Big in Texas	351	(22)
In Brazoria County, it's all Dow.
18. Trouble in New Zealand	373	(10)
Agent Orange leftovers & Ivon Watkins-Dow.
19. Time & The Tittabawassee	383	(34)
Dow fouls a Michigan river-and people's lives.
20 Union Carbide	417	(14)
Outlaw corporation acquired by Dow.
21. No Trespassing	431	(6)
Defining new boundaries.
Endnotes	437	(30)
Index	467	(20)
About the Author	487