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Dow’s Union Carbide subsidiary in South Charleston has joined the war against the spread of COVID-19 by producing industrial scale quantities of hand sanitizer for free distribution to health care systems and government agencies. The first production batch of South Charleston-produced hand sanitizer is expected to be ready to be released for packaging Wednesday, according to Tim O’Neal, vice president and site director for Dow’s Union Carbide subsidiary. The sanitizer will be packaged by Total Distribution, Inc., of Nitro, and distributed by the West Virginia National Guard to health care workers and first responders across the state, O’Neal said. The...

The Union Carbide Hunting and Fishing Lodge campground on Blue Creek is facing extinction soon, after decades of being a choice, close-by, back-to-nature getaway location for generations of Union Carbide employees, their families and friends. Those who still maintain campsites on the Elk River-area property have been given notice to vacate the premises no later than mid-August. Jack Lesher of Clendenin is the treasurer for the Carbide Recreation Club, which has maintained the campground for approximately 25 years. He recounted the history of the facility and the recent notification of its impending closure. “Back when Union Carbide ran a chemical...

In 1977, William McPherson earned the top honor in the writing world when he was honored with a Pulitzer Prize.But nearly four decades later, the former Washington Post critic now hovers on the brink of poverty thanks to a failing pension and a bit of bad luck on the stock market.In a heartbreaking essay for The Hedgehog Review, McPherson describes what it's like to become poor in old age-as part of a overlooked group who are neither middle or lower class.Former teachers and even lawyers who can't pay their bills but aren't on the streets begging for change.Surprisingly, he says...

LONDON, Dec. 3 - The BBC, Britain's public service broadcaster, acknowledged Friday that it had been tricked into broadcasting an interview with a man pretending to be a spokesman for Dow Chemical, who claimed that the company had taken the blame for the disaster in Bhopal, India, in 1984. The hoax, contradicting Dow Chemical's rejection of any responsibility, came on the 20th anniversary of the catastrophe, when waves of lethal gas escaped from a chemical plant in Bhopal, in central India, killing more than 3,500 people and injuring thousands more. At the time, the plant was owned by the Union...

BBC World said yesterday it was duped in an "elaborate deception" by a man who claimed to be a Dow Chemical Co spokesman and said the US company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster. The British news channel, after twice running the interview with a man identified as Jude Finisterra, later said the report was wrong. A spokeswoman for Dow Chemical in Switzerland also confirmed that the report was wrong. The man's identity could not be confirmed and his motives were not immediately clear. BBC officials were not readily available for comment but the broadcaster said on air it was...

A group of descendents and former residents of two now-defunct uranium mining towns in southwestern Colorado are suing Union Carbide Corp., blaming the company's "utterly intolerable" environmental practices for a host of suspected mill-related illnesses and genetic disorders. The lawsuit, filed in Denver federal court Friday by a Wyoming law firm headed by renowned personal injury attorney Gerry -Spence, lists 82 plaintiffs, many of whom were raised and schooled in Uravan and Long Park before the towns were leveled and declared Superfund cleanup sites in the mid-1980s. Many road maps no longer show the two neighboring ghost towns in...

Friday August 30, 11:03 AM Greenpeace tracks down US exec wanted over Bhopal deaths Greenpeace says it has tracked down a former chairman of Union Carbide who faces homicide charges in India over the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster that killed thousands. Calling on both India and the United States to begin formal extradition proceedings immediately, Greenpeace Toxics Campaigner Casey Harrell said Friday he had found Warren Anderson living in the upscale Hamptons resort district in Long Island, New York. Anderson has been the subject of an 11-year-old Indian arrest warrant for culpable homicide, but his extradition from the United States...