The Bushites won't be happy until America has it's own Bhopal.

[Hubert Flottz]

EPA veils chemical info from public

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency routinely allows companies to keep new information about their chemicals secret, including compounds that have been shown to cause cancer and respiratory problems, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has found.

By McClatchy Newspapers
MILWAUKEE, Wis. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency routinely allows companies to keep new information about their chemicals secret, including compounds that have been shown to cause cancer and respiratory problems, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has found.

The newspaper examined more than 2,000 filings in the EPA's registry of dangerous chemicals for the past three years. In more than half the cases, the EPA agreed to keep the chemical name a secret. In hundreds of other cases, it allowed the company filing the report to keep its name and address confidential.

This is despite a federal law calling for public notice of any new information through the EPA's program monitoring chemicals that pose substantial risk. The whole idea of the program is to warn the public of newfound dangers.

The EPA's rules are supposed to allow confidentiality only "under very limited circumstances." More...

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200812210346

BushCo has gutted the "Superfund" The clean air and clean water acts and the EPA...Why do they hate healthy Americans?

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Bayer Plant Explosion Leaves One Dead in West Virginia

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The Daily Mail reported that the chemical involved in the Bayer plant explosion was methomyl, which is used to make pesticides. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, methomyl is a highly toxic. But a Bayer official maintained that no toxins were exposed to the air because of a decomposition reaction.

Other chemicals involved in the explosion were dimethyl disulfide, methylisobutylketone and hexane. All three are “harmful irritants, according to the Daily Mail.

The Bayer CropScience plant also produces methyl isocyanate, which killed at least 15,000 people in a leak in Bhopal, India, in 1984. But fortunately, that chemical was stored underground, far from the site of the explosion.

According to CNN, emergency officials in Kanawha County at first ordered people to stay inside in the cities of South Charleston, Cross Lane, Dunbar and St. Albans. Authorities lifted the order about 2:15 a.m. after the Bayer CropScience plant told the county that the explosion did not send contaminants into the air. More...

http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3735

"The Bayer CropScience plant also produces methyl isocyanate, which killed at least 15,000 people in a leak in Bhopal, India, in 1984. But fortunately, that chemical was stored underground, far from the site of the explosion."

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Bayer CropScience

Bayer CropScience

Hoechst
German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in the 19th century. Hoechst was part of IG Farben in the inter-war years (see section on Bayer). In 1994 Hoechst set up a joint venture with Schering called AgrEvo. Hoechst merged with Rhone Poulenc in 1999 to form Aventis.

Schering
German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in the 19th century. In 1994 Schering set a joint venture with Hoechst called AgrEvo. Schering retained a stake in Aventis CropScience which it sold in 2002 as part of the Bayer CropScience deal. Schering still survives today as a pharmaceutical company and has no involvement in GM crops.

Bayer
German chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in the 19th century.
Between the mid-1920s and mid-1940s Bayer was part of the notorious IG Farben along with BASF and Hoechst. IG Farben developed chemical weapons and used slave labour. At the end of WW2 several IG Farben executives were jailed for war crimes.

Bayer had considerable agro-chemical interests but no direct involvement in GM crops before its purchase of Aventis CropScience, from Aventis and Schering in 2002, to form Bayer CropScience. Bayer is the only large company to hang on to something approaching the life science concept, keeping agriculture, chemicals, polymers and pharmaceuticals within one company. MORE...

http://archive.corporatewatch.org/genetics/bayer.htm

[Hekate]

2. How many even remember that ghastly event in 1984? It was an American company

... to our everlasting shame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
> The Bhopal disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred in the city of Bhopal, Madhya
> Pradesh, India, resulting in the immediate deaths of more than 3,000 people,
> according to the Indian Supreme Court. A more probable figure is that 8,000
> died within two weeks, and it is estimated that an additional 8,000 have
> since died from gas related diseases.
>
> The incident took place in the early hours of the morning of December 3, 1984,
> in the heart of the city of Bhopal in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
> A Union Carbide subsidiary pesticide plant released 42 tonnes of methyl isocyanate
> (MIC) gas, exposing at least 520,000 people to toxic gases. The Bhopal disaster
> is frequently cited as the world's worst industrial disaster.

As Malcolm X once famously said, "The chickens have come home to roost." Mega-corporations want to operate with complete impunity and immunity from the law and human decency. And BushCo has proven to be the biggest enabler in the US in dismantling the protections we used to have here.

Hekate

[Hubert Flottz]

4. People here around Charleston West Virginia remember because

The old Union Carbide plant at Institute West Virginia, now owned by Bayer Crop Science, still makes and stores that same chemical(methyl isocyanate)that killed 15,000 people in India.

Bayer Plant Explosion(video)

http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/0808/080829_3e5528ed.shtml