Laptop Battery "We lied. We covered up. We broke the law. We poisoned our own
workers." Those are statements you probably won't hear at the
American Chemistry Council's (ACC) Responsible Care Conference in
Orlando, Florida, which tees off* on Earth Day, April 22. Instead
you'll hear something to the effect that "we've done nothing wrong
and we'll never do it again. And to prove it, let's all go out and
partner with green groups."
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These are actual xrays of BF Goodrich worker Bernard
Skaggs' hands. The company knew that PVC would
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Thinkpad Am I exaggerating the bizarreness of chemical industry logic? To
answer that question, take a look at the controversy around "Trade
Secrets," the Bill Moyers expose of corporate malfeasance that
aired recently on PBS. The program gained access to a cache of
industry documents, obtained during the discovery portion of a
lawsuit against vinyl chloride manufacturers. The documents prove
beyond doubt that the chemical industry covered up information
about the harms of vinyl chloride and other chemicals, misleading
its own workers, the government and the public.
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Microsoft After the program, ACC Vice President Terry Yosie dared to come
on the air to discuss the show with Moyers. Amazingly, he expressed
not a hint of regret to the victims shown in the film. Yosie
thought Moyers should have pointed out that chemicals are needed
for certain products that Americans buy and enjoy and are part of
modern life. That was just one of many disturbing facets of the
industry response to the Trade Secrets program.
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Laptop Computers Students of corporate environmentalism may have noticed three
other industry reactions as well, all tried and true greenwash
techniques.
- April 2001 (Click on link that says "Guide to 16 Historic Sites") Altrec.com, National Geographic and the White House Millennium Council worked together to build an award winning multimedia piece called On the American Trail. //www.ontheamericantrail.com
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Laptop Computer In its response to the Moyers program, the American Chemistry
Council is:
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"We are excited to further the reach of our conservation messages through this partnership, " said Barbara Shimaitis, senior vice president of interactive services at the Ad Council. "Through the EARTH DAY NOW campaign, Earth Share's message will reach the millions of Americans who are online every day, and encourage them to take part in sustaining our natural resources."
Desktop Computer Using phony partnerships to cover-up.
Notebooks In his opening statement, the Chemistry Council's Yosie referred
to the industry's "...major partnership with one of this nation's
leading environmental groups, Environmental Defense..." Yosie used
the "major partnership" to bolster his suggestion that all
chemicals on the market now are fully tested and safe.
Lenovo This blatantly misleading point prompted Council's supposed
partner, Environmental Defense, to write them demanding a
retraction In reply, ACC President Fred Webber further obscured the
topic by admitting Yosie was partly incorrect on a technical point,
but failing to correct his essential misstatement. See:
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/pubs/Filings/ACCletters.html
Hard Drive With all kinds of public/private partnerships in vogue, from
local school boards to environmental non-profits to the United
Nations, this exchange should provide a warning to all would-be
partners of corporate polluters. When the going gets tough, these
companies are ready to hide behind the cover of their non-profit
partners. Environmental Defense Senior Attorney David Roe says
there was no official partnership with the ACC. He acknowledges,
however, that the two groups collaborated (with EPA) on the design
of a major testing program for chemicals. Roe points out that the
collaboration was sparked by Environmental Defense's report "Toxic
Ignorance," which showed that most chemicals had in fact not been
tested, at least not to public knowledge. In other words, the
collaboration was entered only when the industry needed it to fend
off criticism.
Travelstar Environmental Defense's name has been used, and the word
"partnership" abused, by an industry trying to cover a multitude of
sins. But Environmental Defense has also unwittingly invited this
sort of abuse through its own openly pro-business approach to
environmental regulation. Unfortunately for them, some of the
damage to Environmental Defense's integrity is done.
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Gateway Claiming that voluntary initiatives are the solution.
Laptop Parts A September 15, 1992 memo from the Chemical Manufacturer's
Association, as the ACC was then known, reveals the real strategy
behind voluntary programs:
"A general CMA policy on voluntary development of
health, safety and environmental information will...potentially
avert restrictive regulatory actions and legislative
initiatives."
Software Moyers' Trade Secrets program further
explains:
The idea of a chemical company voluntarily testing its
product is not unlike efforts to voluntarily regulate their
products. It is an attempt to pre-empt effective government. It is
an attempt to try to stop the government from doing its job by
doing half-baked measures and then claiming that we're protecting
the public.
Hard Drives The ACC's main voluntary program is the 12-year old Responsible
Care, developed in response to the disasters of Bhopal, and Love
Canal, among others. But Responsible Care has profound flaws. It
contains:
Desktop Computers The Environmental Working Group has shown that voluntary
initiatives on right-to know questions, championed by Chemical
Council, "always fail."
Think Pad The ACC says Responsible Care is about chemical safety. And for
that, says Environmental Defense's David Roe, we need "testing and
disclosure." The ACC misled the public about those very issues on
national television.
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Repair Taking credit for legislation it opposed.
Data Recovery The Chemical Council has set up an entire website,
www.abouttradesecrets.com, to counter the Moyers program. On that
website, and on the American Chemical Council Homepage, they list
an aray of US legislation designed to control pollution and protect
public health from toxic chemicals. But as Ken Cook of the
Environmental Working Group points out, the newly released
documents confirm that the industry has opposed all of those pieces
of legislation.
Cisco Bill Moyers gave the ACC's Terry Yosie the last word on his
discussion program "I think you all know that what happened 40
years ago is no reflection of the kind of industry that we
represent today" asserted Yosie.
Keyboard At last, an indirect admission that there was something
unacceptable about past poisonings and cover ups. But after Mr.
Yosie's performance on PBS, we should ponder his last statement
carefully. Most commercial chemicals -- a toxic soup of which are
in all our bodies -- still have not been tested, at least not as
far as the public knows. The chemical cover-up continues as of
today, Earth Day 2001.
Monitor * Note to our readers in Florida: On Sunday April 22nd (Earth
Day), the Repsonsible Care Conference attendees start off at 8A.M.
with an "exciting networking opportunity," i.e., a golf outing at
the Orange County National Crooked Cat Course in Orlando. We
suggest it might be appropriate to greet them and ask them to
convene a Responsible Care Chemical Industry Truth and
Reconciliation Commission for next year's Conference.
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