Clorox Announces Plans to Phase Out Chlorine

The Clorox Company has announced plans to phase out chlorine in its bleach.  The company's bleach product synonymous with the element chlorine made the announcement on Monday. " OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 2, 2009 - The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) today announced that it plans...

Millworkers ordered to stay on MacKenzie job to avoid gas spill

Emergency Environmental Legislation has been invoked at the MacKenzie pulp mill in BC, meaning staff and workers have to stay on the job and cannot go on strike, otherwise a potentially deadly leak of 15 tonnes of...

Maple Leaf Foods Slices its Prices: Amidst Listeria Hysteria

Opinion Barry Artiste Maple Leaf foods are deep discounting their foods in a public relations move to win back consumers, sort of a quasi price war, with 50 percent off meats versus competitors similar...

Listeria Hysteria "Worker says meat plant filthy": Maple Leaf Foods

Opinion Barry Artiste Certainly this new allegation will not bode well considering the pending lawsuits against Maple Leaf Foods from Victims of Listeria which has been linked to the 15 deaths of consumers and...

EU plan may help US poultry sales

"The European Commission has proposed accepting poultry treated with anti-bacterial chemicals, which could reopen the EU market to US poultry.The Commission set out strict conditions for the chemical treatment,...

$200m ozonation plant a first

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAn ozonation plant may look good on paper, especially if waste is a severe problem.  But to state the byproduct is clean air is a fallacy.  Ozone Generating...

'Chlorine bomb' hits Iraq village

"Twenty people have been killed and 50 injured in a suspected chlorine bomb in Iraq's Diyala province, police say.  The attack happened in an open-air market in the village of Abu Sayda at about 2000 (1600 GMT) on Tuesday.  A police spokesman in the provincial...

Chlorine Attacks in US: Fox News's Big Scare

Have to admit I'm watchin Fox News, and have just learned that al Qaeda insurgents may be planning a chlorine attack on the US.  Source:  Homeland Security.  They call this their "Big Scare" story...

The Good News and the Bad News -- WMDs Finally Discovered in Iraq

"The good news is that the United States military has finally located viable chemical weapons in Iraq. The bad news is that the weapons in question, chlorine gas, have been used in two insurgent bomb attacks in...

Hotel evacuated after chlorine leak in cellar

"Hotel evacuated after chlorine leak in cellar At least 15 people were taken to hospital with breathing difficulties after chlorine fumes spread through Hotel L’Empereur in central Maastricht late on Wednesday...

Bird deaths shut down downtown Austin

"Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown Austin early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead. ADVERTISEMENT Emergency workers donned yellow hazardous-material suits, and dozens of fire trucks and ambulances were parked nearby, as they began...

The Search for WMD in Iraq

(01) US Biologist Tests DNA Samples in Iraq. A U.S. biologist with the 75th Exploitation Task Force tests DNA samples at their base in the Victory Palace complex outside Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 9, 2003. The American invasion broke up a program capable of producing Iraqi...

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