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332 notes to pages 13–322. “Technical Report Evaluation of Monsanto’s Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB).Process for PCB Losses at the Anniston Plant,” United States Environmental ProtectionAgency, March 2005, www.epa.gov/Region4/waste/sf/annistonsf/10302197.PDF.3. www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/dirty-secrets/annistonindepth/toxicity.asp.4. Soren Jensen, “Report of a New Chemical Hazard,” New Scientist 32 (1966):612.5. The story was told by the resident during a trial hearing. Trial transcript,Owens v. Monsanto, CCV-96-J-440-E, N.D. Alabama, April 5, 2001, 551.6. San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 1969.7. Le Dauphiné libéré, Isère Nord edition, August 17, 2007.8. Directive 96/59/CE. See Marc Laimé, “Le Rhône pollué par les PCB: un Tchernobylfrançais?” http://blog.mondediplo.net/-Carnets-d-eau-, August 14, 2007.9. Industrie-Déchets, February 2007.10. U.S. Public Health Service and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,“Public Health Implications of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs),”www.epa.gov/waterscience/fish/files/pcb99.pdf.11. The two studies are presented in Ruth Stringer and Paul Johnston, Chlorineand the Environment: An Overview of the Chlorine Industry (Dordrecht: Kluwer AcademicPublishers, 2001).12. “Whales in Sound Imperiled,” Anchorage Daily News, July 22, 2001.13. Chemical and Engineering News, January 14, 2002, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8002/8002notw1.html.14. I recommend reading this very thorough article, which can be found at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=articleandcontentId=A46648-2001Dec31.15. Anniston Star, February 23, 2002.16. Anniston Star, August 8, 2003; Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2003.17. “ US: General Electric Workers Sue Monsanto Over PCBs,” Reuters, January4, 2006.28. The Ecologist, March 22, 2007; Sunday Times, June 3, 1973.2. Dioxin: A Polluter Working with the Pentagon1. Renate D. Kimbrough, “Epidemiology and Pathology of a TetrachlorobenzodioxinPoisoning Episode,” Archives of Environmental Health, March–April 1977; TheLancet, April 2, 1977, 748.2. New York Times, August 28, 1974.3. Coleman D. Carter, “Tetrachlorobenzodioxin: An Accidental PoisoningEpisode in Horse Arenas,” Science, May 16, 1975.4. See Robert Reinhold, “Missouri Now Fears 100 Sites Could Be Tainted byDioxin,” New York Times, January 18, 1983.