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Legislators Urge ACC To Expel Flame Retardant Firms

"Twenty-one state legislators from 10 states are urging the American Chemistry Council, a chemical industry trade association, to expel three member companies for unethical behavior. As ACC members, the companies -- Albemarle, Chemtura, and ICL Industrial Products--must conform to ACC’s Responsible Care program, which, according to a June 4 letter to ACC from the legislators, the companies do not."

Source: C&EN, 06/12/2012

"Heart of Michigan Park Sacrificed for Private Golf Course"

"BENTON HARBOR, Mich. -- In this predominantly black town with the lowest per-capita income anywhere in this hard-hit Rust Belt state, municipal leaders allowed a development group to take over the heart of a city park that fronts onto Lake Michigan -- land originally bequeathed to the people of Benton Harbor forever."

Source: Investigate West, 06/12/2012

"Sacred Water, New Mine: a Michigan Tribe Battles a Global Corporation"

"Head in any direction on Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula and you will reach gushing rivers, placid ponds and lakes -- both Great and small. An abundant resource, this water has nourished a small Native American community for hundreds of years. So 10 years ago, when an international mining company arrived near the shores of Lake Superior to burrow a mile under the Earth and pull metals out of ore, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa had to stand for its rights and its water."

Source: EHN, 06/12/2012

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