Category: Industry

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Michele Corash, a San Francisco lawyer advising industry on Prop 65.

Proposition 65: California’s Controversial Gift

DAVIS, CA.-It is theatre in the round at the barn-like Wyatt Pavilion on the University of California campus here. But the people on the raised stage are not actors and the audience is obviously not a student crowd. Instead, a phalanx of briefcase-bearing representatives of

Monsanto Chemical Company’s W.G. Krummrich plant in Sauget, Il., across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Photo: Courtesy of Monsato

Your Right To Know What You Breathe And Drink–A New Law Emerges

Editors Note: APF Reporter Vol.11 #3 exsisted only as a photo copy, becuase of this the pictures in this story are of poor quality. Monsanto Company’s three St. Louis area plants use perchloroethylene to make a bacteria-fighting chemical in deodorant soap, produce paradichlorobenzene to make

Federal workmen load barrels of toxic waste to be disposed. Photo by Joel Richardson, courtesy of The Washington Post.

Placing Risk Between Panic and Apathy: A New Industry Emerges

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.–New Jersey had a problem. A cancer-causing, radioactive substance was widespread in homes throughout the state, threatening the health of thousands of residents. While state officials initially worried that publicity could cause public panic, just the opposite has happened. Federal workmen load barrels

The Great American Challenge poster

Buying Innocence by Association – Tobacco’s Strange Bedfellows

The tobacco industry is forging new, behind-the- scenes relationships in its effort to polish its image and to fight smoking bans and excise taxes. In a public relations fantasy come to life, the $35 billion-a-year industry has aligned itself with organized labor and black, Hispanic

Former President Jimmy Carter (Photo by Karl Schumacher–The White House)

Living Can Be Hazardous To Your Health

ATLANTA–Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter may be getting older but a computer recently told them they are far younger than their actual ages. They are among the first to undergo a new computerized health risk appraisal developed here at the Carter Center of Emory University in