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Poisoned Places: Tonawanda
It's difficult to definitively link any one person's illness to air pollution from a particular plant. But the concerns about the health effects of Tonawanda Coke's toxic pollution rallied a small group of people in Tonawanda -- most of them sick -- to force complacent regulators to clean up the air. The case highlights the risks posed to communities around the country by an environmental regulatory system that largely entrusts companies to voluntarily disclose how much toxic pollution they emit and that can take years to act once violations are discovered.
Tags: air pollution; toxic emission; Tonawanda; Coke; health effects;
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"The Air We Breathe"
The people living in and around Pittsburgh are breathing in some of the poorest quality air in the U.S. High levels of Benzene and other harmful chemicals have been found in the air causing potentially serious health risks to residents who inhale the "toxic brew" over a long time period. The Allegheny County Board of Health has "indefinitely postponed" voting on issuing new air quality permits.
Tags: Neville Island; Coke Works; Clairton; Allegheny County Board of Health; air quality; Dan Onorato; Pittsburgh; Carnegie Mellon University; EPA; American Lung Association
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Cerberus: What's Bigger than Cisco, Coke or McDonald's
Hedge funds are buying many major American companies. Hedge funds are very secretive and refuse to release much information about their management teams or investments. But, this investigation took on the challenge of exposing the world's most secretive and voracious hedge fund acquirer of companies: Cerberus Capital Management.
Tags: corporation; corporate takeovers; business ethics; finance economy; hedge funds; Cerberus Capital Management
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The real thing: Truth and power at the Coca-Cola Company
This book traces the history of the Coca-Cola company, from its creation after the Civil War, to its rise as the world's best-known brand, to the New Coke marketing debacle, to its wooing of Wall Street and lavish spending upon executives until its global ambitions ran into trouble. The book also examines Coke's relationship with its independent bottlers, who helped make the soda a part of pop culture but later became a target for company executives who came to resent their power. In undoing the bottlers, however, the executives contributed to their own loss of fortune.
Tags: BOOK; Coke; Coca-Cola; business; soft-drink industry
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Corporate America's Secret Money Trail: "Dirty Money, Clean Banks" , "The $150 Billion Shell Game", "Homeland Security Pork Barrel"
"These three stories document different ways that the largest U.S. corporations break laws and don't get prosecuted, use secret Cayman Island dummy companies to avoid paying taxes, and place top executives on Presidential Advisory boards that award their companies billions of dollars in federal contracts."
Tags: corporate fraud; taxes; Coke; Intel; Cayman Islands; J.P. Morgan; Wells Fargo; banks; money laundering
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City of Coke
The News Times reports on the cocaine business in Arizona. Everyone's taking a slice of the pie that was once reserved for the Tijuana cartel. Elaborate systems are in place that put street gangs under the aegis of cartels being run out of prisons. The amount of cocaine coming in from Mexico is on the rise.
Tags: cocaine; Mexico; Sinaloans; drug traffick
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King of Kings
Fresno Bee profiles the sprawling agricultural empire J.G. Boswell Co. and its clout in the political circles. This in-depth study of the King County cotton business reveals that the company has run into trouble with the environmentalists over its plans to repackage one of its ranch and sell it to dairy operators. Managing the manure has become the key issue in the game.
Tags: J.G. Boswell Co.; King County; cotton; dairy farming; agriculture; manure management; dairy waste; water water; Boswell
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Discover examines the collaborative work of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Czech Republic in assesing pollution problems in Ostrava, the industrial center of former Czechoslovakia. The study identified pollutants and their hazards. It also determined risks of exposure and probability of causing disease. This report also outlines the process of turning coal into coke, a key ingredient in making iron.
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The Youngest Victims of Cocaine
The Chicago Sun-Times found that Chicago-area hospitals have reported a 24 - fold increase in the last decade in the number of babies born with cocaine in their blood--raising the number of cocaine babies to more than 3,000. These babies have a higher risk of dying of SIDS and have to compete with the drug for their mother's affection.
Tags: babies Infant drug exposure coke babies mortality rates
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Cop or cowboy
New Times (Miami) details a large drug bust accomplished by the cooperative efforts of an informant and a south-Florida city police officer who broke a large coke-smuggling ring.
Tags: Drugs; law enforcement; informants