Publications and Reports

Trespass Against Us: Dow Chemical & The Toxic Century

Jack Doyle. Common Courage Press, 2004.

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The Dow Chemical Company has been trespassing on private property for decades and getting away with it. The trespass in this case is harmful and it is toxic. For the transgressors at issue are man-made synthetic chemicals, more than 100,000 of which have been “invented” and let loose in the world since the 1930s. Yet many of these chemicals are toxic to life and have been doing harm for years, insinuating themselves into blood, body tissue, sperm, and egg. “Body burdens” of toxic chemicals are now being measured in humans and wildlife all over the globe. The result is not a pretty picture: cancers, birth defects, poisoned workers, and polluted communities. The guilty parties in these transgressions, however, have not been brought to account, and they have not been stopped. To this day, “toxic trespass” continues, and it is poisoning all of us.

Riding the Dragon: Royal Dutch Shell and the Fossil Fire

Jack Doyle. Environmental Health Fund, 2002.
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Royal Dutch Shell is a giant oil company with annual gross sales exceeding $175 billion, it is typically ranked as the number one or two oil company in the world. Behind the incredible prosperity Shell has created over 100 years lies volatility, danger, and pollution. Whether chemical worker or indigenous people, refinery community, or tropical forest, a terrible price is being paid. From the 1988 oil refinery blast in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the Killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa in Nigeria, from the coveted gas fields in China to polluting rigs at sea, author Jack Doyle reveals the 100 years warning this company has given to the environment.

Driving Dangerously: The Truth about DOW, Dow Accountability Network

This 2003 mock annual report examines the performance of Dow Chemical, one of the largest chemical manufactuers in the world that has left many to question the way it does business.
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