June 13th, 2014

California has the strictest e-waste laws in the nation, but a KPIX5 investigation discovered the strict laws have led to dumping our electronic junk in someone else’s back yard, causing serious damage.

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May 15th, 2014

Samsung Electronics Co.. Ltd. has finally made a public apology to the victims of a leukemia cluster at its chip plants and promised compensation for them—seven years after the SHARPS campaign borne out of the death of Hwang Yu-mi, the first publicly known victim of the cluster, and six months after stalled negotiations with the victims’ families and the advocate group.

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Seattle, Washington | March 21st, 2014

Following a serious fire at a yard full of electronic waste in Parowan, Utah, the environmental watchdog group, the Basel Action Network (BAN) has completed an initial investigation and report of the fire site, as well as other facilities operated by Stone Castle Recycling LLC.

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Seattle, WA | January 13th, 2014

Concerned about a possible limitation on the ability of those exercising their right to free speech to avoid being harassed by frivolous but costly defamation lawsuits, major media outlets including National Public Radio, CNN, the Washington Post, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, and Time Magazine, filed an Amicus Brief last Friday supporting the appeal of the Basel Action Network (BAN).

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Yuma, Arizona | September 11th, 2013

The environmental organization, Basel Action Network (BAN), well known for discovering the global dumping of electronic waste in Asia, has joined forces with CBS News in California to expose a new type of dumping, this time in Arizona. BAN found three warehouses in Yuma, Arizona, holding what is believed to be more than 9 million pounds of abandoned toxic picture tubes from old TVs and computer monitors originally collected by the California state Recycling Program. Dow Management, the alleged recycling company that held the glass in Yuma has disappeared and the principals are nowhere to be found. Dow was paid more than $581,000 dollars by California Recyclers to take the glass, who were in turn paid 3.6 million dollars from a California legislated recycling fund.

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