THE POISON PAPERS
documenting the Hidden History of Chemical
and Pesticide Hazards in the United States
"These are 40 years of documents accumulated by Carol Van Strum in her long battle against the chemical industry. Her story is both infuriating and heart breaking. In the 70’s and 80’s it was Furadan (carbofuran), in the 90’s it was Pencap-M (encpapsulated methyl parathion) Then came the neonicotinoids in the 2000’s. All of the chemical companies are involved. The EPA is their agent. And it is getting worse. These are criminal enterprises and they have been playing this game for decades." ~ source
click to go to Sharon Lerner's article
"FOR DECADES, SOME of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the chemical industry have been kept in Carol Van Strum’s barn. Creaky, damp, and prowled by the occasional black bear, the listing, 80-year-old structure in rural Oregon housed more than 100,000 pages of documents obtained through legal discovery in lawsuits against Dow, Monsanto, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the Air Force, and pulp and paper companies, among others.
As of today, those documents and others that have been collected by environmental activists will be publicly available through a project called the Poison Papers. Together, the library contains more than 200,000 pages of information and “lays out a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be protecting human health and the environment,” said Peter von Stackelberg, a journalist who along with the Center for Media and Democracy and the Bioscience Resource Project helped put the collection online. " GO TO POISON PAPERS
As of today, those documents and others that have been collected by environmental activists will be publicly available through a project called the Poison Papers. Together, the library contains more than 200,000 pages of information and “lays out a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be protecting human health and the environment,” said Peter von Stackelberg, a journalist who along with the Center for Media and Democracy and the Bioscience Resource Project helped put the collection online. " GO TO POISON PAPERS
