Khushboo Narayan and Padmaparna Ghosh, livemint.com, 28th January, 2008 A review of documents obtained through the RTI Act suggest appraisal committees have accorded environmental clearances without scrutinizing documents Mumbai/New Delhi: Environmental clearances issued to Dow Corning India Pvt. Ltd’s Ranjangaon plant in 2005 by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) were based on a site [...]

Vinod Mathew & Nisha Nambiar, Indian Express, January 28, 2007 Pune, January 27: On January 16, they blocked the road leading to a 100-acre construction site—one that, if Dow Chemical has its way, will be their first R&D unit in India. The project was started in October. The construction work at the Rs 400-crore ‘Global [...]

Malaysia Sun, 20th January, 2008 Protestors, demanding justice for survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, have brought to a halt construction work at Dow Chemical’s research and development centre in Maharashtra. All construction work at Dow Chemical’s research centre in Chakhan, near Pune, was brought to a halt by local residents and farmers [...]