The company had already gotten the other 100 families to accept the offer to buy their property. The city claimed their right of eminent domain on the remaining 15 families and ceased their properties. This action was the beginning of the court battles which eventually lead all the way up to the Supreme court hearing the case and deciding in favor of the City of New London, Connecticut. The main reason Pfizer was behind the whole issue was because “In 1998, the drug company Pfizer built a new plant in New London, Connecticut.” (Head) The pharmaceutical company thought with the additional business their plant might bring to the city that they'd be able to take the housing land and turn it into a commercial development property and sell it to other commercial developers to bring about more jobs, tax revenues, and businesses to the community in hopes of reviving the struggling city. Susette Kelo is the main proponent of the supreme court case, arguing on behalf of the home owners.
Background Dow Chemicals is the largest, by market position, ethylene and polyethylene producer in the world – having 7% of global polyethylene capacity by year end 1995. Why then would a company in this position be interested in purchasing Petroquimica Bahia Blanca (PBB), a roughly 20 year old petrochemical plant that produces ethylene and polyethylene, which is being privatized by the Argentine government? Simply put, the PBB plant provides Dow Chemicals the opportunity to expand on their leading global market position and become the dominant polyethylene producer in Latin America. First some background on the product under consideration. Polyethylene plastic is used in many forms, from milk jugs to grocery store bags, and is produced from ethylene.
The Chinchorro peoples existed around 2,000 years before the Egyptians. They lived on the coast of Chile and Northern Peru. The Chinchorro mummies, which have remained preserved in Chile for more than 7,000 years, are now under threat from increased levels of moisture. Humid air is allowing bacteria to grow, causing the mummies' skin "to go black and become gelatinous”. The rapid deterioration began within the past 10 years, and has affected some of the 120 mummies that are housed at the University of Tarapacá’s archaeological museum in the northern port city of Arica.
In 1966 Congress were considering the construction of two dams on the Colorado River. The construction of these dams would flood a portion of the Grand Canyon, turning it into a 500 foot lake. The Sierra Club strongly disagreed and the day before a vote was to be taken, they ran numerous ads in papers “excoriating Congress for this environmental blasphemy” (Berry 76). Though The Sierra Club only spent around $10,000 out of their approximately $1.5 million dollar budget for that year, the IRS suspended their tax deductibility while they investigated the case. Eventually their 501c3 status was revoked.
Christopher Bacon February 28th, 2012 Intro. Public Health J. Maynard A Civil Action: Book Critique A Civil Action, written by Jonathan Harr in 1996, is a non-fiction novel published following the events that occurred in Woburn, MA between the mid 1960’s and early 1980’s. Several citizens of the town had contracted lymphoma, originally not sure how, eventually studies and a long drawn out investigation found that the town drinking water had been breached with numerous chemicals that were dumped and absorbed from local businesses. Two companies were blamed in the infractions. Beatrice Foods Inc. who owned John Riley Tannery and W.R. Grace & Company who produced food-processing equipment were both at fault and settlements
Greene’s crop made up about 20% of GRT Salads production, yet GRT marketed that 80% of their vegetables were grown by Greene Gardens. Both of these companies are stakeholders in this story, with Seth Greene and his company being at the forefront. Greene’s dilemma begins with the FDA’s report on September 14, 2006, when they issued a warning to all consumers to avoid eating fresh bagged spinach. Their report stated that an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 had surfaced in eight different states, resulting in the death of one person and 49 others becoming ill. This initial report stated that the first reported case occurred several weeks earlier, but health officials were unable to determine spinach as the culprit until more cases were reported and they were able to find a common link between them.
The Hudson River is polluted in many ways. Some issues affecting the river are accidental sewage discharges, urban surface run-offs, heavy metals, furans, dixons, and pesticides. But the main problem affecting the Hudson River is the discharge of PCB (Polychlorinated biphenyl's). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made claims agains General Electic Corporations claiming that they had discharged 209,000-1.2 billion pounds of PCB from their two manufacturing plants located in Hudson Falls and Fort Edward. They claim that this has been going on for 30 years.
Because of the devastation of hurricane Katrina many of the United States oil refineries were damaged, causing a decrease in gas supply. The damage to the oil refineries cause them to be shut down. With many of the United States oil refineries shut down, the supply of crude oil was effect and that is what caused an increase in gas prices. Hurricane Katrina resulted in an immediate loss of nearly 1.5 million barrels a day of crude oil from the
The company began to build factories in other locations in the United States because the demand for products had outgrown the capacity of the Cincinnati facilities. The company moved into other countries, both in terms of manufacturing and product sales, becoming an international corporation. 1879 - P&G launches its first branded product, Ivory Soap. 1901 - King C. Gillette creates the KC Gillette Razor. 1923 - P&G becomes one of the first companies to advertise on commercial radio.
Gary Gibbs, D.O. author of The Food That Would Last Forever, says, “Irradiation is destroying our food supply.”(Turner 26) Irradiation has consequences such as the production of new allergens in foods, which can create new and higher levels of toxins. “For example: in 1993 , 37 people died and more than 1,500 people suffered partial paralysis from a disease called eosinophilia-myalgia(Turner 26).” This was eventually linked to a tryptophan supplement made with genetically engineered bacteria. Although, once the genetically modified organisms are introduced to the environment, there is no way to bring them back. In any case, there are other ways that are considerably safer to rid foods of harmful microorganisms.