Volunteer quits Olympic committee over Dow's role

26 January 2012, 2:01 am

A volunteer on the 2012 Olympics' sustainability commission says she is resigning over the Dow Chemical Co.'s sponsorship of the games. Campaigner Meredith Alexander said Wednesday she was quitting the watchdog body to protest Dow's links to the deadly 1984 gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, that killed an estimated 15,000 people and injured half a million.... Read More »

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