Clean Watershed Campaign

The Environment Report producing series on Dow’s Dioxin…

The Environment Report from the University of Michigan is doing a week-long series of reports on the contamination of the Midland/Saginaw/Bay City area by Dow Chemical. Read more »

Welcome to our watershed Dr. deFur.

Dr. Peter deFur to review EPA-Dow
negotiated plan for dioxin laden rivers

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Taking a Stand for Our Land

“Taking a Stand for Our Land”
Addressing Saginaw’s Environmental Health Inequalities
Pamela L. (Pugh) Smith, MS, REHS

In 1992, the US Environmental Protections Agency (EPA) reported that racial minorities and low-income people were disproportionately exposed to lead, selected air pollutants, hazardous waste facilities, contaminated fish, and agricultural pesticides in the workplace. Read more »

Through a Mother’s Eyes

Through a Mother’s Eyes
Marcia Woodman

I heard about Dow’s dioxin contamination on the Tittabawassee River in early 2002. I live on the river and wondered what dioxin was. In the coming months the state warned us to wear masks and to avoid contact with soil and sediments in the river. I have three small children who claimed the river and its banks as their playground. Read more »

What’s in the river

EPA 2007 list of Dow’s chemicals in the Saginaw & Tittabawassee Rivers

People in the Saginaw Valley are the Human Element Dow distinguishes in their award winning commercial.  But it is fundamental that we do not bond with any elements on this list. Clean water and healthy communities are elemental and fundamental to life. We are real people not props in a commercial.  This is the place we call home. Read more »

Is this corporate accountability?

Is this corporate accountability?
Brian McKenna, Ph.D.

Dow Chemical is an unaccountable corporation. As is true for any corporation, profits, not people, are its fundamental concern. But Dow is in a league by itself in its ability to create a benign corporate image, even in the face of massive environmental health pollution, illness, death and civic distress. Read more »

Should it take generations?

Should It Take Generations?
Dave Dempsey

The first time I heard of dioxins, and Dow Chemical’s relationship to them, was 1983. The President of the United States was first-term Ronald Reagan, Michael Jackson’s Thriller was about to become a big hit, and the Internet was yet to touch anyone’s life.

And we’re not much farther along in getting Dow to face its responsibilities for chemical cleanup in Michigan than we were then. It’s remarkable – and appalling. Read more »