Fw: Watchdog Group To Post 50 Years of Internal Chemical Industry Documents On Internet

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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 8:32 PM

Subject: Watchdog Group To Post 50 Years of Internal Chemical Industry

Documents On Internet

> REABEEE@... wrote:

> Mon Mar 26 2001

> I thought you might be interested in this information by the Environmental

> Working Group at:

> http://www.ewg.org/cia/mediaadv.html

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> MEDIA ADVISORY

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> Watchdog Group To Post 50 Years of Internal Chemical Industry Documents On

> Internet

>

> Thousands Of Industry Meeting Minutes, Memos, and Letters Will Be

> Searchable In " Chemical Industry Archives "

>

> Washington - A nonprofit environmental research group known for its

> hard-hitting computer investigations will post a vast trove of internal

> chemical industry documents on the Internet on Tuesday, March 27.

>

> The Environmental Working Group (EWG.org) will launch the website - the

> Chemical Industry Archives - with an initial collection of more than

35,000

> pages of chemical industry insider documents spanning five decades.

>

> " These Archives will do for public understanding of the chemical industry

> what the 'tobacco papers' did for the tobacco industry, " said

Cook,

> president of EWG.

>

> The Chemical Industry Archives will be accessed through the group's web

site:

>

> www.ewg.org

>

> The group will formally launch the site at a press conference at the

> National Press Club.

>

> WHEN: 10:00 a.m.

> Tuesday, March 27, 2001

> WHERE: National Press Club

> Murrow Room

> 529 14th Street NW

> Washington, DC

> WHO: Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group

> Wiles, EWG Senior Vice President

> Charlotte Cherry, Member of the Seaside (Houston, TX) Citizen Advisory

> Panel on the chemical industry in her community

> Coequyt, Director, EWG Chemical Industry Archives

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