Clorox / chlorine

see also CFC

INCLUDES CHLORINE AND PVC

see also sep pvc and dioxin

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</div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Scientists are zeroing in on the source of a powerful climate pollutant that was banned years ago but has mysteriously been increasing, with potentially damaging consequences for climate change.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Months of tracking the pollutant's rise in the atmosphere had pointed investigators to Asia and then to eastern China. They announced on Wednesday that they had found at least 40 to 60 percent of the global increase in trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11), a chlorofluorocarbon, was originating in and around the Chinese provinces of Shandong and Hebei.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The emissions appear to be from new production of the chemical—in violation of the 1987 Montreal Protocol, a treaty under which countries had agreed to phase out ozone-damaging pollutants, including CFCs—the scientists write in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1193-4" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">a new study</a> published in the journal Nature.</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div></div><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/walmart-toxic-paint-strippers-2597548363.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 31px;">Walmart Joins Ranks of Retailers Pulling Toxic Paint Strippers From Shelves – When Will EPA Follow Suit?</a></h1><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2597548363" data-authors="Environmental Defense Fund" data-headline="Walmart Joins Ranks of Retailers Pulling Toxic Paint Strippers From Shelves – When Will EPA Follow Suit?" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description" style=""><div class="widget__brief" style="">By Sarah VogelMonday, <a href="https://news.walmart.com/2018/08/20/walmart-phasing-out-paint-removal-products-with-methylene-chloride-and-nmp" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Walmart announced</a> that it will stop selling paint strippers containing methylene chloride or N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) in stores by February 2019—making it the first general merchandise retailer to take such action. Walmart's announcement follows the strong leadership demonstrated by <a href="https://newsroom.lowes.com/inside-lowes/lowes-commitment-methylene-chloride-nmp/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lowes</a>, <a href="https://corporate.homedepot.com/methylene-chloride" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Home Depot</a> and <a href="https://saferchemicals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/s-w_statement_6_15_18.pdf?x15132" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sherwin Williams</a>, all of which have committed not to sell methylene chloride- and NMP-based paint stripping products by the end of the year. Importantly, Walmart's action goes beyond its U.S. stores, including those in Mexico, Canada and Central America, as well as their online store.</div></div></div>

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=<div id="contentSub"><h2>Dialing for Dollars</h2>Environmental activist Paul Orum reports receiving a call on June 3 from MBD employee <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Emily_Frieze&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emily Frieze (page does not exist)">Emily Frieze</a>, who "was interested in finding out about the environmental community's activity to keep ethylene glycol on the list of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Right-to-know&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Right-to-know (page does not exist)">right-to-know</a> chemicals (the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Toxics_Release_Inventory" title="Toxics Release Inventory">Toxics Release Inventory</a>, or TRI)."Ethylene glycol is used in making common antifreeze. It is a highly toxic poison which is especially dangerous because of its enticingly sweet taste and smell. As little as two teaspoons of antifreeze can cause death or blindness, and every year it claims the lives of children and pets who drink it by accident.Currently, antifreeze makers are petitioning the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="U.S. Environmental Protection Agency">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</a> to take ethylene glycol off the TRI list, a petition which which has drawn written opposition from dozens of environmental groups. Orum says that Frieze did not go out of her way to identify her employer during her interview with him, but she did not overtly misrepresent herself either. "She identified herself as with 'MBD' when asked. . . . I asked her if MBD was working for the ethylene glycol manufacturers. She implied yes, and said MBD likes to keep up with what's going on."Another environmentalist, Ann Hunt, reports receiving a similar call on May 23 from "a woman who identified herself as Tanya Calamoneri." Hunt is executive director of Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination (CACC), a Michigan group located near the corporate headquarters of Dow Chemical, a leading producer of toxic chemical compounds.Calamoneri asked Hunt to send her a list of the conference materials from "Backyard Eco Conference '96," an annual CACC-sponsored event. "She gave a DC address on Connecticut NW," Hunt says. "Knowing that there are a lot of nonprofits in that area, I asked which group she represented. Her response was 'MBD,' which she characterized as a public policy and research consulting group. I later learned that it was Mongoven, Biscoe and Duchin, chief consultants and dirt-diggers for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chlorine_Chemistry_Council" title="Chlorine Chemistry Council">Chlorine Chemistry Council</a>. . . . It amazes me that the forces of darkness are that interested in what a little grassroots group in central Michigan is doing. Certainly an indication of our collective power!"In fact, MBD's interrogatory net spreads worldwide. Bob Burton, the coordinator for Wilderness International in Tasmania, Australia, reports receiving a letter dated January 25, 1995 from<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bartholomew_Mongoven" title="Bartholomew Mongoven" class="mw-redirect">Bartholomew Mongoven</a> (Jack's son), seeking "assistance in a significant research undertaking" to "promote improved understanding and cooperation between major businesses and consumer- and environmentally- oriented interests throughout Asia and the world." <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/bart.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/bart.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> To assist in this research endeavor, Mongoven asked Burton to fill out a detailed questionnaire. Burton, however, is aPR Watch subscriber. He promptly alerted other environmental groups in Australia and neighboring countries to beware of MBD's true purposes.<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/reply.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/reply.html" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></div><h3>Contact information</h3>(Current as of August 1999)
1100 Connecticut Avenue
Suite 300
Washington D.C. 20036
Phone (202) 429 1800
Fax (202) 429 8655
Email: mbd@cais.com
  <h2>PR Watch archives</h2><ul><li>PR Watch, 2nd Quarter 1996<ul><li><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/index.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/index.html" rel="nofollow">Flack Attack</a></li><li><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/women.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/women.html" rel="nofollow">Women and Children First: On the Front Line of the Chlorine War</a></li><li><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/enemy.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/enemy.html" rel="nofollow">Behind Enemy Lines</a></li><li><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/update.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/update.html" rel="nofollow">The Chlorine Industry's Secrets Exposed!</a></li><li><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/activist.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/activist.html" rel="nofollow">The Chlorine Industry's Secrets Exposed! #2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/bart.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/bart.html" rel="nofollow">Letter and Survey from MBD to the Wilderness Society</a></li><li><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/reply.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/reply.html" rel="nofollow">Talking Back to a Flack</a></li><li><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/shell.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/shell.html" rel="nofollow">Race-baiting Strategy Helps Keep Shell Pumping in Nigeria</a></li></ul></li></ul><a name="Related_SourceWatch_Resources" id="Related_SourceWatch_Resources"> </a><h2>Related SourceWatch Resources</h2><ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Diplomatic_Tactical_Services" title="Diplomatic Tactical Services">Diplomatic Tactical Services</a></li></ul><a name="External_links" id="External_links"> </a><h2>External links</h2><ul><li>"<a href="http://mediafilter.org/CAQ/CAQ58StealingOF.2.html" class="external text" title="http://mediafilter.org/CAQ/CAQ58StealingOF.2.html" rel="nofollow">Who Is Stealing our Future, continued.</a>" Covert Action Quaterly at MediaFilter.org</li><li>"<a href="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/people_appointments/2002/people_february02.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/people_appointments/2002/people_february02.htm" rel="nofollow">People News</a>", O'Dwyer's PR Daily, February 2002.</li><li>Stacy M. Carter, "<a href="http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/2/112" class="external free" title="http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/2/112" rel="nofollow">http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/2/112</a>," Tobacco Control #11, September 2002, pp. 112-118.</li><li><a href="http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r361.html" class="external text" title="http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r361.html" rel="nofollow">PR Firms for Hire to Undermine Democracy</a> Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly #361, October 1993.</li></ul><a name="Tobacco_Industry" id="Tobacco_Industry"> </a><h3>Tobacco Industry</h3><ul><li>Jack Mongoven, "<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wxp35c00" class="external text" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wxp35c00" rel="nofollow">Memo to Matthew Winokur: Re: Japanese Finance, Health Ministries set to battle of FCTC</a>", Bates No 2083705302, August 18, 1999.</li><li>Stacy M Carter, "<a href="http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/112?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&fulltext=mongoven&searchid=1050781012904_341&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&journalcode=tobaccocontrol" class="external text" title="http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/112?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&fulltext=mongoven&searchid=1050781012904_341&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&journalcode=tobaccocontrol" rel="nofollow">Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin: destroying tobacco control activism from the inside</a>", Tobacco Control, Number 11, 2002, pages 112-118.</li><li>John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton,"<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/" rel="nofollow">Flack Attack</a>", "PR Watch", 2nd quarter 1996.</li><li>BBC, "<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1875025.stm" class="external text" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1875025.stm" rel="nofollow">Tobacco industry accused of foul practice</a>", March 18, 2002</li></ul><a name="National_Pork_Producers_Council" id="National_Pork_Producers_Council"> </a><h3>National Pork Producers Council</h3><ul><li>Hugh Espy, "<a href="http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/nppc.html" class="external text" title="http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/nppc.html" rel="nofollow">Summary of AMS Audit of NPPC</a>", In Motion Magazine, April 12, 1999</li></ul><a name="Chlorine_Chemistry_Council" id="Chlorine_Chemistry_Council"> </a><h3>Chlorine Chemistry Council</h3><ul><li>PR Watch, "<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/activist.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q2/activist.html" rel="nofollow">The Chlorine Industry's Secrets Exposed! #2</a>", PR Watch, 2nd Quarter 1996.</li></ul><div></div>

carlo

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<li style=" padding-top: 0.1cm;">Carlo ran a project for Philip Morris which produced two pseudo-scientific papers providing support for tobacco-industry claims that the EPA and other regulators used "junk-science" (the 'Bias Report' and the 'Health Scientists Survey')</li>

<li style=" padding-top: 0.1cm;">Carlo also worked for the tobacco industry as a recruiter and trainer of other scientists willing to give evidence at Congressional hearings, lecture at scientific conferences, and generally act as secret agents for the industry.</li>

<li style=" padding-top: 0.1cm;">Carlo worked with Philip Morris on the promotion of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition(TASSC) and its later extension into Europe [He was on the Science Advisory Board]. TASSC attempted to establish itself as the authority on what was, and was not "sound science". They defined "junk-science" as any science used by opponents to TASSC's corporate funders. <a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aly03e00" target="tobdoc"><img src="/83b0b667-8e1c-5cf0-81f8-caefdb3fd951.jpg"/></a><a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aly03e00/pdf" target="tobdoc"><img src="/ff24f13f-e1e2-50d4-8e05-6bf00c0f3d01.jpg"/></a>

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<li style=" padding-top: 0.1cm;">Carlo spent most of his early life working for Dow Chemicals, and was a member of their 'flying circus' (propaganda teams on dioxin 'safety')</li>

<li style=" padding-top: 0.1cm;">He also worked for the Chlorine Institute and featured strongly in the infamousBanbury Conference fiasco.</li>

<li style=" padding-top: 0.1cm;">He also worked for the waste incineration corporations and the Cement Kiln Recycling Association which both had dioxin problems.</li>

<li style=" padding-top: 0.1cm;">Carlo was Dow Chemical's representative on the OTA's Agent Orange panel run by Michael Gough. The US military and veteran's organizations stalled for years over recognising that dioxins had harmed American servicement in Vietnam.</li>

<li style=" padding-top: 0.1cm;">In 1990 Carlo and two associates published a study exonerating the chemical company Nufarm (a Dow subsidiary) from any possibility of adverse health consequences after the company had dumped dioxin-containing waste into the catchment area of Melbourne's water supply in Australia. See Part 2.</li>

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1993 Sept: The Nufarm dioxin spill: The Australian Journal of Public Health publishes Carlo's reply to criticism of his Melbourne Water Supply report. <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-6405.1993.tb00153.x/abstract%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Cbr%3E%20%C2%A0%20%C2%A0" target="_blank"><img src="/819639bf-8aa7-55d3-abc7-16cdac49f5cc.jpg"/></a>

Noel Turnbull a Hill & Knowlton employee, later attacked Greenpeace for exposing theNufarm spill in a text book on Australian public relations::

<blockquote class="Q" style="font-style: italic;">In the 1980s Greenpeace conducted one of its raids on a western suburban plant owned by Nufarm, an agricultural chemical manufacturer. They accused the plant of being a source of toxic threats to the water supply.

[Note "accused" — by then it had been established beyond doubt.]

In this case Melbourne Water, the local water utility, demolished Greenpeace's arguments with an aggressive campaign based on scientific evidence obtained from their own records and from independent experts.

[This refers to both George Carlo and Michael Gough]

Admittedly it was one of the few examples where scientific evidence triumphed over pressure group activism, but it was also an example of how determined opponents can be neutralised.</blockquote>

[One must remember the source of this text book — Hill & Knowlton worked for pharmacuetical, chemical and tobacco companies. In fact, they appear to have organised Carlo's old OTA friend Michael Gough to come to Australia to calm any residual fears about the Carlo dioxin study credentials following the Nufarm problems.

Gough arrived in Melbourne in 1991 and held press-conferences exonerating dioxins from any public health risk. He supported Carlo's original assessment, without mentioning that they were old buddies. Gough was also the US government expert who publicly stated that you could eat a plate-full of dioxin on your breakfast cornflakes without suffering any ill effects.]<a href="http://noelturnbull.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/How-PR-works-but-often-doesnt.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="/0d2ee345-7957-5b1a-99ea-4e17e2a3852a.jpg"/></a>

The Hoover Institute, has published Gough's version of the dioxin wars. <a href="http://veteransinfo.tripod.com/aodioxin.pdf" target="tobdocs"><img src="/beb4ddc0-0be1-56f7-a5d6-a1de6b741253.jpg"/></a>

1994: thru 1988: Carlo is still on the selected committee of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), Agent Orange Advisory Panel which deals with dioxin contamination of Vietnam war veterans. This was run by Michael Gough who had helped him out in Melbourne over the NuFarm dioxin spill.

<div style="text-align: left;">Claims made in George Carlo's 1988 C/V </div><a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wsm14b00" target="tobdoc"><img src="/c5a2475b-ffaf-572f-8b82-1c00c746eb7b.jpg"/></a><a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wsm14b00/pdf" target="tobdoc"><img src="/d15bad53-1d81-5ef4-8ab1-f54f76cfa18b.jpg"/></a><div style="text-align: left;">
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[Carlo was seen as the representative on this panel for Dow Chemicals.[

1994 /E: Pharma Pacific Management At some time in the 1994-95 period Carlo appeared in the literature as the Technical Director for two associated drug companies nominally based in Sydney, Australia. They also had offices in the USA at Florida and Washington (at his office addresses).

These associated companies were Pharma Pacific, which seems to manufacture and distribute immune-suppression drugs and vaccines, and Pharma Pacific Management Pty. Ltd, which is the holding company. They also appear to be involved in government lobbying on behalf of a wider group of vaccine-producing companies in Australia.

[It later emerged that they were secret phramacuetical subsidiaries of Dow Chemicals.

When approached by Australian journalist Stewart Fist, Pharma Pacific was keen to offer the services of George Carlo as a keynote speaker at a conference in Australia.]

<table border="1" width="98%" align="center" bgcolor="#eeeedd" cellpadding="5" style=""><tbody><tr bgcolor="#cccccc"><th>The emerging evidence about dioxins</th></tr><tr><td>The paper-making and chlorine industries in particular pressured the [EPA] agency to reconsider this risk estimate (in 1989-90). The focus of their argument was on the method used by the agency to estimate the cancer risk.

    These industries argued that there was a "threshold" of exposure to dioxin, below which there was no risk, and that dioxin was much less dangerous than defined by the EPA. The EPA argued that there was no threshold and that its risk estimate was supported by scientific evidence. 

As part of its efforts to convince the EPA of its position, the Chlorine Institute (later to become the Chlorine Chemistry Council) in 1990 convened a scientific conference on dioxin [The Banbury Conference]. Shortly afterwards, in 1991 [Bush 1 Administration], EPA Administrator William Reilly announced that the agency would undertake a reassessment of the health effects of dioxin based on findings from this conference. The industries felt confident that the agency would now find that there was a level of exposure to dioxin that does not pose any risks, forcing the agency to recalculate its cancer-risk estimate.

    Instead, scientists found new evidence that there was no threshold for some of dioxin's effects and that dioxin acted like a hormone, disrupting many systems in the body. These and related findings supported the agency's original risk estimates and provided the scientific basis for the EPA's draft reassessment report, which was released in 1994. In this report, the EPA again concluded that dioxin poses a serious cancer risk and that the average American had a level of dioxin in their body that could cause adverse health effects (USEPA, 1994). 

    This draft prompted dioxin-generating companies to launch an aggressive campaign to stall the release of the report. This attack began with a peer review report led by industry scientists who rejected several chapters in the draft document, forcing the agency to rewrite them and delaying the process of finalizing the report (SAB, 1995). 

    While this draft report was being rewritten, local and state agencies hesitated to take action on dioxin exposure situations, claiming that there was no clear guidance on the risks dioxin posed. This led to a six-year delay during which people continued to be exposed to dioxin while government reevaluated its risk estimates and corporations operated as usual. 

    Finally, in June, 2000, the EPA released a revision of the 1994 reassessment report. Much to the chemical industry's dismay, the EPA found even stronger links between exposure to dioxin and adverse impacts on human health. One of the EPA's key findings was that the risk of getting cancer from dioxin exposure was ten times higher than reported in 1994 (USEPA, 2000). 

    The strengthening of this link between dioxin exposure and cancer threatens the chemical industry's way of doing business. Since June, the industry has intensified its efforts still further to challenge and discredit the scientific findings in the report and to further stall its release. One of its primary goals is to block policies that are aimed at eliminating dioxin and dioxin sources.

[Source: Center for Health, Environment and Justice]

See also this dioxin timeline <a href="http://www.ewg.org/dioxin/timeline" target="tobdocs"><img src="/1911e5ff-b8e1-51b4-a109-e461c04149f5.jpg"/></a>

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1994: The corporate contributions to the 'public relations & research' budget of Chlorine Chemistry Council (CCC) was $12 million, up from $2 million in 1992.

The CCC was the latest name change for the Chlorine Institute (CI) , which was a CMA lobbying organisation which had hired Carlo as a consultant and planted him on the Banbury Conference. The organization mainly consisted of synthetic-organic chemical manufacturers and their allies from the American Forest and Paper Association (AFPA).

The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manfacturers Association (SOCMA) was run by Paul E Oreffice, President of Dow Chemicals, and William H Bricker, President of Diamond Shamrock Corp.<a href="http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MuMFYQ8CbEgC&pg=PA280&lpg=PA280&dq=%22E+Bruce+Harrison%22+dioxin&source=bl&ots=S8N07HfXn2&sig=V01cSgyV_xNx4yFezbXY3uqeTmw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lWxIT6X6FueViAfHxrCSDg&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22E%20Bruce%20Harrison%22%20dioxin&f=false" target="tobdocs"><img src="/1cf5ed23-04b7-54e3-8fde-d964872ba869.jpg"/></a>

1994 Jan: (Winter) Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials, mentions that George Carlo was Chairman of an Advisory Board for an organization called the "Cement Kiln Recycling Association". [See Google listing]

One article by Dr Gerson Smoger, the lawyer for a large number of Times Beach dioxin victims, says that...

<blockquote class="Q" style="font-style: italic;">George Carlo is a close friend of the chemical industry, was also influential in the "Cement Kiln Recycling Association" [and an advisor on] hazardous waste incineration in cement kilns — and a consultant of the "Chlorine Institute".</blockquote>

It also says that Carlo was paid $21,154.85 for his Banbury Conference activites.

<div style="text-align: left;">[in German] <a href="http://www.ariplex.com/ama/amagut04.htm" target="_blank" style=""><img src="/66960dbc-8255-559d-90fd-e1b56d388bd2.jpg"/></a> See latest information on dioxins: <a href="http://www.sciencecorruption.com/archive/dioxin_update.html" target="Tobdocs" style=""><img src="/99a5374e-4c46-5fad-98d5-10c13b8eb739.jpg"/></a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div>

<table border="1" width="95%" align="center" bgcolor="#feffe8" cellpadding="5" rules="all" style=""><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dedfc8"><th>EPA dioxin assessment</th></tr><tr><td>1994 Jan:The EPA is preparing to release its reassessment of health risks of dioxin exposure in February, 1994. The draft document confirms that the cancer risks are at least as great as expected and the document will "emphasize serious new concerns regarding non-cancer effects."

    The reassessment document, which is currently over 1,000 pages, will have an emissions inventory and estimate the magnitude of annual releases. The document will also have a site specific methodology for evaluating the release of dioxin to the environment. 

According to EPA staff in the External Affairs office, the draft is scheduled to be released in February, then it will go to the SAB for their review. EPA plans to revise the risk assessment and release a final report probably in the Spring of 1995.[SourceEPA Watch]</td></tr></tbody></table>

1994 Feb: The National Journal (Dec 3 1994) gives the history of the Dioxin Wars.

<blockquote class="Q" style="font-style: italic;">Dioxin is a by-product of some chlorine manufacturing processes, and companies that make or use chlorine products could face new restrictions if EPA proceeds with the regulations.

Even before the report's release, the Chlorine Chemistry Council, a unit of the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) that includes such firms as Dow Chemical Co. and Occidental Chemical Co., launched a PR campaign to defuse its expected conclusions. In February, the council hired Ketchum Public Relations, which started rounding up scientists sympathethic to the industry's point of view.

"We identified a number of independent scientists and took them on the road" to meet with journalists, academics, political leaders and local health officials,Mark Schannon, an associate director of Ketchum's Washington office, said.

The blitz, which started in May and covered at least 30 cities, was designed to undercut the press coverage that the EPA report was expected to receive when it was released in September [Which confirmed that dioxin was a probable human carcinongen]. "Basically what we're trying to do is assure that industry's voice is heard by people who make policy decisions both here and around the country," Schannon said.

The CMA is also providing about $200,000 to finance a scientific review panelto provide comments to EPA about the quality of its dioxin reassessment. The panel is co-chaired by John A. Moore, an EPA acting deputy administrator during the Reagan Administration who is now the president of the Institute for Evaluating Health Risks, a Washington think tank.</blockquote>

<a href="http://www.sciencecorruption.com/ATN167/00247.html">http://www.sciencecorruption.com/ATN167/00247.html</a>

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Consumer Alert

The CEI is also linked to a "free market" outfit called Consumer Alert, which is actually an industry-funded front-group (astroturf organisation) supported by the Chlorine Chemistry Council. This is itself an arm of the Chemical Manufacturers Association (the descendent of the Manufacturing Chemists Association which led the attack on Rachael Carson in 1962).

A secretary at Chlorine Council inadvertently revealed to a reporter that the group has a $13.5 million annual budget including more than $2 million a year for "communications". Consumer Alert has been vocal in its dismissal of the recent book 'Our Stolen Future' following the pattern which was established when the chemical industry went after Rachael Carson's 'Silent Spring'.

After ICE collapsed, it was replaced by the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) as the 'grassroots' organisation supporting the oil, coal, power and electricity distribution industry on environmental issues, and Milloy was working with the GCC during Kyoto. PR Watch reported "TASSC attempted to stimulate anti-treaty email to President Clinton by promising to enter writers' names in a $1,000 sweepstakes drawing."

On the eve of the Conference in December 1997, Milloy, on behalf of TASSC, Phillip Morris, and other corporate funders, announced that more than 500 physicians and scientists had signed an open letter to world leaders opposing any climate change treaty. When asked to provide the signers' names and credentials, Milloy told the authors that he had not had time to "compile" the hard-copy list. (See: <http www.sierraclub.org="" sierra="" jfclo2.html="">Sierra release)</http>

Milloy's employment by the EOP Group Inc. dates back to before 1995, and it includes a record of lobbying on behalf of the Fort Howard Corporation, the International Food Additives Council, Monsanto Co. and Edison Electrics.

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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Chlorine Chemistry Council</h1>

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The Chlorine Chemistry Council is part of the chemical industry trade association <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Chemistry_Council" title="American Chemistry Council">American Chemistry Council</a>. The group represents the manufacturers and users of chlorine and chlorine-related products. It's former website, <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.c3.org">http://www.c3.org</a>, redirects to the American Chemistry Council's page on "Chlorine Chemistry." That page states, "The Chlorine Chemistry Division of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) represents major producers and users of chlorine in North America."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chlorine_Chemistry_Council#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

The Chlorine Chemistry pages of the ACC promote using only chlorine to sanitize swimming pools and urges people to refrain from peeing in swimming pools.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chlorine_Chemistry_Council#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chlorine_Chemistry_Council#Related_SourceWatch_articles">2 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

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<h2>Members</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bayer" title="Bayer">Bayer</a> Corporation</li>

<li>BioLab, Inc.*</li>

<li>Canexus (formerly <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nexen" title="Nexen">Nexen</a> Chemicals)</li>

<li>The Clorox Company*</li>

<li>De Nora Tech (formerly ELTECH)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dow_Corning" title="Dow Corning">Dow Corning</a> Corporation*</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DuPont" title="DuPont">DuPont</a> (Titanium Technologies)</li>

<li>JCI Jones Chemicals, Inc.</li>

<li>Lonza*</li>

<li>PVS Chemicals, Inc.*</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Occidental_Petroleum" title="Occidental Petroleum" class="mw-redirect">Occidental Chemical Corporation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Olin_Corporation" title="Olin Corporation">Olin Corporation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PPG_Industries" title="PPG Industries">PPG Industries</a>, Inc.</li>

<li>Texas Brine Company, LLC<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chlorine_Chemistry_Council#cite_note-2">[3]</a></li>

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<h2>Related SourceWatch articles</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Chemistry_Council" title="American Chemistry Council">American Chemistry Council</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bivings_Group" title="Bivings Group">Bivings Group</a></li>

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<h2>Contact information</h2>

Chlorine Chemistry Council

1300 Wilson Boulevard

Arlington, VA 22209

Tel: (703) 741-5000

<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chlorine_Chemistry_Council#cite_ref-0">↑</a> American Chemistry Council <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chlorine.americanchemistry.com/">Chlorine Chemistry</a>, organizational web page, accessed Jnaury 25, 2012</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chlorine_Chemistry_Council#cite_ref-1">↑</a> American Chemistry Council/Chlorine Chemistry <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chlorine.americanchemistry.com/Chlorinated-Pools">Chlorinated pools</a>, organizational web page, accessed January 25, 2012</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chlorine_Chemistry_Council#cite_ref-2">↑</a> American Chemistry Council/Chlorine Chemistry Division <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chlorine.americanchemistry.com/Members">Members</a>, organizational webpage accessed January 25, 2012</li>

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The Clorox Company is a household cleaning products maker, best known for its bleach. It also makes laundry and cleaning products such as Formula 409, Pine-Sol, and Tilex. Other products are cat litter Fresh Step, car care products Armor All and STP, charcoal briquettes under the Kingsford brand, Glad storage bags, and the food products Hidden Valley dressing and KC Masterpiece sauce. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Sierra_Club_and_.22Green_Works.22">1 Sierra Club and "Green Works"</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Repositioning_as_a_.22health_and_wellness_brand.22">2 Repositioning as a "health and wellness brand"</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Ad_boycott_against_Air_America_Radio">3 Ad boycott against Air America Radio</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Draft_Ketchum_PR_Plan_for_Clorox_leaked">4 Draft Ketchum PR Plan for Clorox leaked</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Animal_testing.">5 Animal testing.</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Clorox_statement_on_animal_testing.">5.1 Clorox statement on animal testing.</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Political_contributions">6 Political contributions</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Personnel">7 Personnel</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Contact_details">8 Contact details</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Related_articles.">9 Related articles.</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#SourceWatch_articles.">9.1 SourceWatch articles.</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#External_links">10 External links</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#References">10.1 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#Articles">10.2 Articles</a></li>

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<h2>Sierra Club and "Green Works"</h2>

In January 2008, Clorox announced a deal with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club">Sierra Club</a> whereby the company could "use the Sierra Club's name and logo to market a new line of non-chlorinated cleaning products called '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greenworkscleaners.com/?WT.srch=1">Green Works</a>.' In return, Clorox Company will pay Sierra Club an undisclosed fee, based partly on product sales," reported <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Montague" title="Peter Montague">Peter Montague</a>. Sierra Club's director of Licensing & Cause-Related Marketing, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Johanna_O%27Kelley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Johanna O'Kelley (page does not exist)">Johanna O'Kelley</a>, has said "the amount of money involved is 'substantial.'" Sierra executive director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Carl_Pope" title="Carl Pope">Carl Pope</a> has written that "our focus was on consumers who otherwise would not migrate to a safer product because they wouldn't be sure it wasn't green scamming." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-FlSierra-1">[2]</a>

The tension within the Sierra Club came to a head in late March 2008, when, in an unprecedented move, the "Sierra Club's national board voted March 25 to remove the leaders of the Club's 35,000-member Florida chapter, and to suspend the Chapter for four years." The Florida chapter was reportedly "highly critical" of the Clorox deal. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-FlSierra-1">[2]</a> The Sierra Club told chapter leaders not to "seek public media coverage of this internal board decision," according to the Palm Beach Post. Some chapter leaders said "they fear punishment from the national organization" if they speak out. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-2">[3]</a>

<h2>Repositioning as a "health and wellness brand"</h2>

In 2005, Clorox began to "position itself as a health and wellness brand," reported the Wall Street Journal. Key to the campaign were television ads with "images like a young girl pretending to be a mermaid or a young boy imagining himself as a pirate. Both of the kids are standing in pristine bathrooms that were apparently cleaned with Clorox products." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-Kang-3">[4]</a>

In March 2008, Clorox released versions of songs used in these ads as an album titled, "The Blue Sky Project: A Clorox Charity Collection." "Clorox's advertising agency, the San Francisco office of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DDB&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="DDB (page does not exist)">DDB</a>, a unit of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Omnicom_Group" title="Omnicom Group">Omnicom Group</a> Inc., worked closely with music houses that specialize in songs for ads to develop the right full-length songs, and a DDB artist created the album cover. ... <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tarang_Amin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tarang Amin (page does not exist)">Tarang Amin</a>, Clorox's vice president of global franchise, said the campaign, including the music, has helped sales of Clorox brand products triple since the campaign started in 2005." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-Kang-3">[4]</a>

<h2>Ad boycott against Air America Radio</h2>

Clorox refused to advertise on the progressive <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Air_America_Radio" title="Air America Radio">Air America Radio</a>. In October 2006, around 90 companies, including Clorox, told <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ABC_Radio_Networks" title="ABC Radio Networks">ABC Radio Networks</a> that they did not want their ads to play on radio stations that carried Air America Radio. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-4">[5]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-5">[6]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

<h2>Draft Ketchum PR Plan for Clorox leaked</h2>

In 1991 Greenpeace International was campaigning against the use of chlorine in the pulp and paper industries due to its toxic pollution problems. This campaign caused the huge US chlorine producer, Clorox to have the Public Relations division of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ketchum" title="Ketchum">Ketchum</a> Communications draft a crisis management plan based on the assumption that Greenpeace would target the household use of chlorine.

In one of many scenarios canvassed, Ketchum pondered what to do in response to a hypothetical newspaper column calling for a boycott of Clorox products and Greenpeace pickets in front of supermarkets in 10 major cities. One component of a suggested action plan was "Industry association advertising campaign: 'Stop Environmental Terrorism' calling on Greenpeace and the columnist to be more responsible and less irrational in their approach". <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-7">[8]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-8">[9]</a>

<h2>Animal testing.</h2>

Clorox does <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Animal_testing" title="Animal testing">animal testing</a>.

<h3>Clorox statement on animal testing.</h3>

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/community/ourprodspgs/consumer_animal_welfare.html">Consumer & animal welfare</a>

<h2>Political contributions</h2>

Clorox gave $28,000 to federal candidates in the 2006 election through its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a> - 54% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democrats" title="Democrats" class="mw-redirect">Democrats</a> and 46% to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party_%28USA%29" title="Republican Party (USA)">Republicans</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-9">[10]</a>

<h2>Personnel</h2>

<table border="0"><tbody><tr><td style=" vertical-align: top;">Key executives and 2007 pay: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-10">[11]</a></td><td>  </td><td>  </td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">Options

exercised</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donald_R.Knauss&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald R. Knauss (page does not exist)">Donald R. Knauss</a>, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer</td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">$2,310,000</td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">N/A</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_J.Heinrich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel J. Heinrich (page does not exist)">Daniel J. Heinrich</a>, Chief Financial Officer</td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">N/A</td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">N/A</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_A.Tataseo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frank A. Tataseo (page does not exist)">Frank A. Tataseo</a>, Executive VP of Functional Operations</td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">$916,000</td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">$5,110,000</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lawrence_S.Peiros&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lawrence S. Peiros (page does not exist)">Lawrence S. Peiros</a>, Chief Operating Officer of North America Region</td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">$1,110,000</td><td>  </td><td style=" text-align: right;">$5,440,000</td></tr></tbody></table>

Selected members of the Board of Directors: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_note-11">[12]</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_H._Carmona" title="Richard H. Carmona">Richard H. Carmona</a>, Former <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Surgeon_General_of_the_United_States_Public_Health_Service" title="Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service">Surgeon General of the United States</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Harad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="George Harad (page does not exist)">George Harad</a>, Retired Executive Chairman of the Board of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=OfficeMax&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OfficeMax (page does not exist)">OfficeMax</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_W._Matschullat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert W. Matschullat (page does not exist)">Robert W. Matschullat</a>, Director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company" class="mw-redirect">The Walt Disney Company</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pamela_Thomas-Graham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pamela Thomas-Graham (page does not exist)">Pamela Thomas-Graham</a>, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CNBC</li>

</ul>

<h2>Contact details</h2>

1221 Broadway

Oakland, CA 94612

Phone: 510-271-7000

Fax: 510-832-1463

Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.thecloroxcompany.com">http://www.thecloroxcompany.com</a>

<h2>Related articles.</h2>

<ul>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2008/07/07/story2.html?b=1215403200%5E1664450">Burt's Bees Expanding, but Clorox Ties Sting Loyalists</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.massanimalrights.org/producttesting.html">Help End Animal Testing!</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>SourceWatch articles.</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club">Sierra Club</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Animal_testing" title="Animal testing">Animal testing</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>External links</h2>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoovers.com/clorox/--ID__10354--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml">Clorox Profile</a>, Hoovers, accessed October 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-FlSierra-1">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-FlSierra_1-0">2.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-FlSierra_1-1">2.1</a> Peter Montague, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/slippery_slope.080327.htm">Sierra Club Removes Leadership of its Florida Chapter</a>," Rachel's Democracy & Health News, March 27, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-2">↑</a> Robert P. King, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2008/03/26/s3b_sierra_0326.html">Sierra Club Fla. chapter leaders dumped</a>," Palm Beach Post (Florida), March 26, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Kang-3">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-Kang_3-0">4.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-Kang_3-1">4.1</a> Stephanie Kang, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120666813235770629.html">Magic of Clorox Sells for a Song: Shift in Ad Strategy away from Jingles Inspires New Album</a>," Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), March 28, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-4">↑</a> Marc Fisher, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120800295.html">Air America, in the Throes of Victory?</a>", The Washington Post, December 10, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-5">↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2983">Air America on Ad Blacklist?</a>", FAIR, October 31, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-6">↑</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fair.org/images/ABCmemo.pdf">Air America Blackout</a>", FAIR.org/ABC memo, October 25, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-7">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e4/Clorox.pdf">Copy of Ketchum's Leaked Draft Clorox Crisis Management Plan</a> (4.6MB Pdf file) See page 9.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-8">↑</a> Greenpeace USA, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/a/a9/CloroxGP.pdf">Clorox Company's Public relations 'Crisis Management' Plan Leader to Greenpeace"</a>, Media Release, May 13, 1991.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-9">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.asp?strID=C00062224">2006 PAC Summary Data</a>, Open Secrets, accessed October 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-10">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=CLX">Clorox Key Executives</a>, Yahoo Finance, accessed October 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clorox#cite_ref-11">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://investors.thecloroxcompany.com/board.cfm?showpage=cg">Board of Directors</a>, Clorox, accessed October 2007.</li>

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<h3>Articles</h3>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Corporations" title="Category:Corporations">Corporations</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:United_States" title="Category:United States">United States</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Corporations_Targeted_by_BEN_Campaigns" title="Category:Corporations Targeted by BEN Campaigns">Corporations Targeted by BEN Campaigns</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Animal_testing" title="Category:Animal testing">Animal testing</a></li>

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<h2>Linking environmentalism with terrorism</h2>

Since 1990, there have been numerous attempts by industry front groups, PR firms and conservative think-tanks has to associate environmental activism with terrorism. For instance:

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<li>In 1991 a leaked memo from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ketchum" title="Ketchum">Ketchum Public Relations</a>, hired by the Clorox Corporation to develop a crisis management plan, detailed proposed responses to a number of hypothetical scenarios, including a Greenpeace direct action at Clorox factory. Among the recommended tactics was the launch of a "Stop Environmental Terrorism" public relations campaign. <a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/26/26p24.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/26/26p24.htm" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2001Q4/terror.html" rel="nofollow">[8]</a> <a href="http://www.SourceWatch.org/upload/0/06/Ketchum.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.SourceWatch.org/upload/0/06/Ketchum.pdf" rel="nofollow">Download pdf extract from Ketchum's plan for Clorox</a></li>

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About Envirotruth

Envirotruth is dedicated to injecting badly needed truth into the debate about our environment. For too long, some environmental groups have seized the world stage and the public's attention by distorting facts, bending the truth and even committing acts of terrorism against innocent citizens.

This site includes the following sections:

Issues – what are the key issues that environmental organizations have used to spread their messages?

Biotech Food

Chlorine

Climate Change

PVC

Quotes – what have those affected by environmental groups, and the groups themselves said?

Quotes

Credibility – can we believe what the environmental groups say?

Caught in the Act

Sierra Club or Club Sierra?

Ecoterrorism – how does destroying millions of dollars worth of property help advance the cause of environmentalism?

Acts of Ecoterrorism

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lmao, THE WAR ON ECOTERROR

got more on the chairperson of the company responsible

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<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="alt2" style=" border: 1px inset;">Amy Moritz Ridenour

Amy Ridenour is President and Chairman of The National Center for Public Policy Research. As the founding chief executive officer, she has since 1982 promoted the conservative and free market perspective on U.S. domestic, foreign and defense policy issues. She frequently speaks on public policy issues and political organizing techniques and has done so across the U.S., in Central America and in Europe.

Since 1997, her op/eds have been syndicated by Knight-Ridder. Her articles have been published hundreds of times, including by by USA Today, the Sacramento Bee, the Dallas Morning News, The Washington Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the Los Angeles Daily News and many others. She has also served as a guest-host on the nationally-syndicated Michael Reagan Talk Show and is a popular guest on radio and television talk shows, appearing on such programs as Politically Incorrect and on the Fox News Channel, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC.

Amy Ridenour also is a member of the board of directors of Black America's PAC, a political action committee that works to help elect more African-Americans to Congress and other elected offices, and she served as the chairman of several of the conservative movement's strategy meetings, including the Stanton meeting (foreign affairs and defense issues) and the Family Forum meeting (social policy issues).

Amy Ridenour also served from 1993-1994 as co-host of Scoop, a public affairs show seen weekly on the public affairs television network National Empowerment Television (subsequently known as America's Voice). Amy Ridenour has served as Vice-Chairman of the International Youth Year Commission of the U.S. (1985); as Deputy Director of the College Republican National Committee; as Regional Coordinator for the Reagan/Bush 1980 campaign; as Chairman of the Maryland Federation of College Republicans and on Maryland Republican State Central Committee. Ridenour received the American Hero Award from the National Defense Council Foundation in 1988 and the William Paca Award from the Maryland Republican State Central Committee in 1979. A native of Pittsburgh where she was born in 1959, she studied Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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further to all that heres a bit about amy ridenour

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NCPPR's Terror Campaign

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<a href="http://www.CLEARproject.org" target="_blank">http://www.CLEARproject.org</a>

The latest bulletin from the Clearinghouse for Educational Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) features an elegant crique of the National Committee for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a right-wing front group that campaigns for tobacco and Republicans and against the environment. While attacking the environmental movement as an "ecoterrorist fundraising machine," NCPPR director Amy Ridenour herself rakes in a fat salary raised through deceptive fundraising appeals, including one "that targeted the elderly, leading them to believe their social security benefits would be cut off if they did not send money. ... NCPPR mailed 160 appeal letters over four months to an 86 year old woman who stayed awake nights worrying about whether she would continue to receive social security if she didn't send money. *At the time, Amy Ridenour defended the direct mailing blitz, saying, 'It's just that you're competing with a lot of other organizations. People seem to respond better to emotion than they do with letters that have lots and lots of facts.'"</td></tr></tbody></table>

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taken from <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=612" target="_blank">http://www.prwatch.org/forum/showthr...p?threadid=612</a></div>

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<a href="http://www.ping.be/chlorophiles/">The Chlorophiles</a> are an independent non-profit organisation of workers in the chlorine and PVC industry who want to react on the allegations against their work. We find that we are working responsibly and with responsible care to make products for the well-being of humanity. Humanity may not be excluded from the benefits of chlorine on the base of prejudices and false or erroneous information.

<a href="http://www.chlorophiles-usa.org/">CHLOROPHILES-USA</a> is a grass-roots, not-for-profit group modelled after the European founding group. The purpose of these groups and similar groups throughout the world is to spread the truth about chlorine and polyvinyl chloride in benefitting people. Additional efforts in the areas of safety, the environment, and health are of concern from time to time.

(Nothing especially new in either of the above websites - similar tiring "arguments" that you will find at some of the other websites below, <a href="http://www.junkscience.com">JunkScience</a> et al.)

Here's a new (to me at least) website that I just ran across: <a href="http://environmental.networkroom.com/">http://environmental.networkroom.com/</a> - they say, "Welcome to ... The online clearing house and conference room for activists and insiders in the free-market environmental movement."

<a href="http://www.science-education.org/">The Science Center</a> - "The Science Center is sponsored by the Chlorine Chemistry Council (CCC)TM and represents the latest effort by the CCC to help bring objective and balanced discussion of environmental and scientific issues to classrooms around the country. Working with premier education organizations like the Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP) and Project Learning Tree (PLT), the Chlorine Chemistry Council helps equip educators with the knowledge and tools needed to educate the country's students." ==scrape 10/12https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=The%20Chlorine%20Institute
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