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The company that has sought to distance itself from Bhopal (whose tragic catastrophe it
assumed responsibility for when it bought Union Carbide) now insists that it is promoting
“the Human Element”. Link

Within days of the September 11th attack in New York City, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman, together with Time Man-of-the-Year Rudy Giuliani, reassured New Yorkers that air “contaminants are either not detectable or are below the Agency’s concern levels.” In fact, EPA tests taken at the time showed high concentrations of toxic materials in the air downtown, including asbestos, dioxins, and heavy metals. In a bid to spare Wall Street down time, and to maintain value for real estate interests, the safety of the citizens was ignored.

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Spanish contributors from Transnational Temps offer this video from the electric power company Iberdrola which stresses its environmental correctness despite producing only 10% of its energy from wind.

Now if American power companies would only make carbon-free power generation a public issue! On the contrary, the Bush Obama administration is pushing the U.S. back into the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl era by advocating financial incentives to generate new nuclear power facilities. Meanwhile compared to european countries, the U.S. lags far behind in wind power production. Outside of California, very little wind power exists in the U.S. in 2007.