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This is about my neighbor Carol, just down the road:
100,000 Pages of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust in an Oregon Barn for Decades Until Now
Sharon Lerner - July 26 2017
For decades, some of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the chemical industry have been kept in Carol Van Strums barn. Creaky, damp, and prowled by the occasional black bear, the listing, 80-year-old structure in rural Oregon housed more than 100,000 pages of documents obtained through legal discovery in lawsuits against Dow, Monsanto, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the Air Force, and pulp and paper companies, among others.
As of today, those documents and others that have been collected by environmental activists will be publicly available through a project called the Poison Papers. Together, the library contains more than 200,000 pages of information and lays out a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be protecting human health and the environment, said Peter von Stackelberg, a journalist who along with the Center for Media and Democracy and the Bioscience Resource Project helped put the collection online.
Van Strum didnt set out to be the repository for the peoples pushback against the chemical industry. She moved to a house in the Siuslaw National Forest in 1974 to live a simple life. But soon after she arrived, she realized the Forest Service was spraying her area with an herbicide called 2,4,5-T on one occasion, directly dousing her four children with it as they fished by the river.
The chemical was one of two active ingredients in Agent Orange, ............
dalton99a
(81,434 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Here in the neighborhood a lot of women were impacted and a lot of activism took place. Someone burned down her house, killing her children.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)okay i'll read the full article!
malaise
(268,903 posts)Rec
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)As is Since Silent Spring - a scientific rebuttal of the poison industry attacks on her work and person.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)To hide scientific truth from people who are impacted by the chemicals. Deplorable.
Thanks to all those who are bringing this material forward and making it publicly available.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)have already been "hiding" their studies and work so that they are not taken or destroyed by the Donald's team of anti-science nazis.
Oubaas
(131 posts)Thanks for sharing this.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)all the information at The Poison Papers: https://www.poisonpapers.org