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The following is a list of news articles concerning toxics and the high-tech industry. For more information regarding these articles, please contact us at svtc@svtc.org.

Title Publication Date
The Chemical Handlers San Jose Mercury 04/06/80
Silicon Valley Safety Study Incomplete 01/30/82
Cluster/Birth Defects Report Near S.J. Semicon Plant 02/02/82
Group Fights For Toxic-Waste Ordinance The Peninsula Times Tribune 11/04/82
Clean Industry Dirty Water San Jose Mercury 07/10/83
The World's Cleanest Industry Can Damage Your Health Sunday Times 07/31/83
Assault On Toxic Chemicals Needed For Drinking H2O Engineering News Record 10/13/83
The Not So Clean Business Of Making Chips Technology Review 05/01/84
Toxic Trouble In Silicon Valley Newsweek 05/07/84
The Silkwoods Of Silicon Valley Working Woman 07/01/84
Dirty Business In The Clean Room San Jose Mercury West 08/26/84
Findings Toxin Leakage In S.V. Hurt Chip Makers' The Wall Street Journal 08/29/84
Clean IBM Tackles A New Toxic Problem Washington Post 10/15/84
High Tech Pollution Sierra Magazine 11/01/84
Worries About Workplace Toxins Grow In Silicon Valley The New York Times 11/10/84
Hi-tech's Clean Image Begins The Christian Science Mon 12/01/84
Charged Bodies New American Library Nal 01/01/85
Birth Defect Study Shows Link To Area Of Tox Site Los Angeles Times 01/17/85
Health Effects Of TCA Unknown/urge Banning Of Solv San Jose Mercury
High Birth Defects Rate In Spill Area
High Rate Of Birth Defects In S.J. Area Confirmed
Tremors In Chip Valley London Times 02/10/85
Study Ranks Toxic Spills Electronics Week 02/25/85
Warning: Drinking Water In State /Danger To Health California Magazine 03/01/85
Toxic Chemicals Jar Industry Electronics Week 03/18/85
L'Altra Faccia Di Silicon Valley L'espresso Magazine 03/19/85
Most Of U.S. Cool on Toxics Electronics Week 03/25/85
5 Area Firms Must Clean Up Or Answer To EPA San Jose Mercury News 05/01/85
Southsiders Drank TCE For Years The Arizona Star
Putting The Heat On Polluters Nat'l Wildlife 09/85 08/01/85
Tbs Dirty Work On The Clean Chip Der Spiegel Magazine
Tainted Water Spreads San Jose Mercury 09/17/85
Citizen Strategies For Reducing The Hazards Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition 10/01/85
Remark: Sermons And Soda-water PC World
The Dark Side Of Silicon Valley California Magazine
Torts In The Well Water California Lawyer 12/01/85
Study Finds Elevated Level Of Miscarriage San Jose Mercury News 12/08/85
Little House On The Big Spill San Jose Mercury West 01/12/86
A New American Nightmare? Ms Magazine 03/01/86
High-tech Hazards News Focus
Responsible Action Needed In IBM's Tox Waste Clean San Jose Business Journal 04/07/86
Toxics at deep level San Jose Mercury 05/04/86
Toxics In Our Water Metro 05/08/86
Pact Reached In Tainted-water Dispute San Jose Mercury 07/04/86
Fire chiefs seek toxic gas controls San Jose Mercury 07/08/86
Toxic Gas proposal stirs a row San Jose Mercury 08/08/86
How Safe Is Santa Clara County Water Today? Kids Kids Scv Newspaper/p 09/01/86
Trusting Water Magazine/National Audubon 11/01/86
Chip Plant Study Finds High Miscarriage Rate San Jose Mercury News 12/05/86
Malaise 0n The Chip Line 12/09/86
Miscarriages High For Some At Digital The Boston Globe 12/24/86
AT&T Would Transfer Pregnant Workers 12/27/86
Only One Earth - Living For The Future BBC Documentary 01/01/87
Semiconductor Mfg: Intro To Processes & Hazards American Journ/Industries
Pregant Women Taken Off AT&T Chip Production San Jose Mercury News 01/14/87
AT&T Is Urging Transfers For Some Pregnant Women The Wall Street Journal
The Boston Herald
AT&T: Pregnant Worker Can't Be A Chipmaker San Francisco Examiner
Pregnancy Transfers By AT&T The New York Times
Study Prompts Transfer Of Pregnant Chip Workers Allentown Morning 01/15/87
Group Says Reduce Hazards The Evening Gazette 01/16/87
Groups Hit Chip Industry Policies The Boston Globe
Chip Industry Proposal San Jose Mercury News 01/17/87
A Matter of health and welfare - Semiconductor hea Boston Globe 01/27/87
DEC Study Raises Questions: How Safe Are Clean Room The Profession 02/09/87
Union Warns Of Health Perils In Semiconductor Indu San Francisco Examiner 02/17/87
Chip Industry Worries About Health Study Business 02/22/87
Research Spurs Safety Action Business Austin 02/23/87
Brock Seeks Chip Worker Risk Probe San Jose Mercury News 02/23/87
Workers' Health Focus Of OSHA Investigation Boston Globe
Group Won't Conduct Chip-miscarriage Study San Jose Mercury News 03/06/87
Miscarriage Study 03/10/87
Health Worries Give Unions An Opening 03/23/87
Health Study Proposed 03/27/87
Industry Agrees To Health Study 04/13/87
Is Silicon Valley's Water Safe To Drink? The American 04/24/87
An Excuse For Workplace Hazard The Nation 04/25/87
Toxic Storage: the Valley's Problem Child Spartan Daily 05/07/87
Expand Toxics Program, City Urged San Jose Mercury 05/27/87
Speed Up Toxics Inspections 06/01/87
The 100 Most Powerful People In Silicon Valley 06/07/87
Solvent Contaminated Wells Lined To Birth Defects San Francisco Examiner 09/06/87
Tainted Water Wells San Jose Mercury 09/27/87
Semiconductor Workers Face/health Risk/mftg Sector Occupational Health & Safety 10/01/87
Chip Worker Injuries Underreported San Jose Mercury 10/16/87
Pregnancy Study Planned Los Angeles Times 11/01/87
Silicon Valley Workers Claim Toxics Peril Unborn San Francisco Chronicle 12/01/87
OSHA Inspectors Drop In On Silicon Valley Plants San Francisco Examiner 04/15/88
Toxic Gas Regulations Found Wanting Times Tribune 06/29/88
Reproductive Hazards At Work Raise Sex Discrim Iss San Jose Mercury News 08/02/88
Foes Of Toxics Sic New Law On Silicon Valley Firms San Francisco Chronicle 08/03/88
Group Cites High-tech Firms' Pollution Los Angeles Times
Toxic Air Syndrome Metro 4-10,88 Vol 4, No 08/04/88
Study Says Job Hazards Go Unrecognized Los Angeles Times 10/06/88
Inspections Show Chip-firm Faults San Jose Mercury 12/09/88
Cleanup Plan Called Too Slow Times Tribune 12/16/88
IBM, 2 Chip Firms Shun Health Risk Study San Jose Mercury News 01/06/89
Is Contaminated Ground Water A Problem Times Tribune Comment 02/26/89
List Cites 200 Culprits In Ozone Loss San Francisco Chronicle 04/23/89
Earth Day Action Focuses On Ozone San Jose Mercury 04/23/89
Toxic Cleanup Laws Not Being Used, Activist Charge 06/11/89
Toxics And Microchips/SVTC Battles Local Industry Public Citizens 08/89 P 07/01/89
High-tech Firms Harm Ozone Layer USA Today 07/13/89
Toxic Emissions Down, Industry Says: Activist Grit San Jose Mercury 07/15/89
High Tech's Gadfly/Haz/waste-clean-up San Francisco Examiner 09/03/89
Ominous Message For Women Los Angeles Times 09/11/89
Not Womens Work New York Newsday 10/07/89
Factory And Fertility The Boston Globe 10/17/89
Special Report: The Top News Stories Of 1989 Peninsula 01/01/90
Toxic Gas law adopted San Jose Mercury 01/31/90
Suit Says Birth Defects Were Caused By Toxics/Semi The Business Journal 03/12/90
High Tech Pollution Multinational Monitor 04/01/90
Chief Seattle's Prophecy Valley Journal 04/19/90
Sunnyvales's Invisible Pollution-ground-H2O Contam
Stone-age Recipients Are Shelled Peninsula Times Tribune 04/20/90
Back To Basics: Soap Replace CFCs At IBM. s SJ Plant What Works 06/01/90
Big Green: Bravos & Boos San Jose Mercury 07/01/90
Catching The Next Wave Peninsula
Health Hazard Could Your Computer Be Killing You? Macworld
Shades Of Green National Journal 07/28/90
Bhopal-born Chemicals Law Little Utilized San Jose Mercury 08/13/90
Honor Roll Of 8 Of The Finest Grass-roots Efforts Outside Magazine 09/01/90
Progress Stalls On Site Cleanup: EPA May Take Cour The Business Journal 09/17/90
Fab Safety: High marks, but some questions linger Semiconductor International 10/01/90
Ted Smith: Foes~anti-business/fans-earth's Advocate The Business Journal 10/15/90
UT, high-tech and your Health: Will Austin become Polemicist 12/01/90
The Hazards of High Tech The Portland Alliance
A Model - But What Kind? Technology Review 01/01/91
A U.S. Report Spurs Community Action On Polluters Wall Street Journal 01/03/91
Cleanup Of Moffett Field Toxics Urged San Jose Mercury 03/11/91
Report Calls Moffett 'Point Of Blight' Peninsula Times Tribune
Navy Dawdles As Toxics Migrate The Peninsula Times Tribune 03/16/91
High-Tech Toxic Slumber Polemicist 04/01/91
State Finds Toxic-vapor Danger At Sunnyv,SC Sites San Jose Mercury News 01/20/91
Toxins Raise Questions About Any Moffett Sale The Business Journal 05/13/91
Moving Fast To Protect Ozone Layer The New York Times 05/15/91
Striving To Be A 'Good Neighbor' Austin-American Statesman 05/18/91
Toxic-release Record Tattles On Polluters San Jose Mercury 05/27/91
Semi-toxic: Reduction At The Source The Texas Observer 06/14/91
Learning To Live With Toxic Waste San Francisco Chronicle 06/17/91
Sematech/East Austin dialogue continues LaPrensa 07/05/91
Military Base Sale Possible: EPA To Avoid Delays San Jose Mercury 07/06/91
Sunnyvale Residents Criticize Cleanup Plan 08/09/91
Sunnyvale Residents Fear Underground Plumes 08/21/91
Sunnyvale To Push For Toxics Cleanup San Jose Mercury News
The Greening Of Industry Technology Review 08/31/91
Companies clean up by cleaning up San Jose Mercury 09/29/91
21 Pollution Lawsuits Aimed At Westinghouse San Jose Mercury News 10/18/91
EPA Waives Its Water Standards 10/19/91
Green Industry loses its bloom The Business Journal 10/21/91
Living Atop A Toxic . plume. San Francisco Examiner 10/30/91
Group Asks Congress to look at Sematech San Jose Mercury 11/05/91
Navy Seeks To Speed Moffet's Toxic Cleanup 11/09/91
Using TRI Data to Demonstrate Silicon Valley Pollu EPA international confer 11/14/91
IBM Disk Drive Factory The Environmental Exchange 11/20/91
Wastewater Destined For Golf Course San Jose Mercury 12/05/91
Renewing The Earth Origins~CNS Documentary S 12/12/91
Gray Water' Okd For Use On San Jose Golf Course San Francisco Chronicle 12/18/91
Tainted Water Gets Ok For Irrigation San Jose Mercury
Silicon Valley Seeks New Ways To Attack High Tech International Herald Trib 12/19/91
Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Data Use & Pollution EPA Proceedings 01/13/92
Corporations Hide Behind An Eco-mask San Jose Mercury News 01/23/92
Getting Silicon Valley Behind A Green Chip The Christian Science Mon
Progress Against Pollution San Jose Mercury 01/26/92
Bush Moves To Protect Ozone Layer,speeds/Ban/CFCs San Francisco Chronicle 02/12/92
Military's Chemical Use Blamed For Eating Ozone San Jose Mercury
Report Calls US Military Biggest Destroyer Of Ozone San Francisco Chronicle
Drawing Out The Poison The Peninsula Magazine 03/01/92
The Silicon Principles CRT
Back To Basics: Soap Replaces CFCs At IBM's S.J. Plant What Works Report No. 1 05/01/92
Cancer Risk Seen From PCB Use At Westinghouse San Jose Mercury 05/20/92
After 10 Years, Toxic Site Still Not Cleaned San Francisco Examiner/ch 05/31/92
Rising From The Dust Peninsula Magazine 06/01/92
Sematech Gets Money For Environment Austin American Statesman 06/12/92
Environmental Law-is It Killing Califonnia? San Francisco Daily Journ 07/01/92
IBM Beats '93 Deadline On Ozone-killer Solvents San Jose Mercury 07/01/92
More Chip Makers Favoring 'Ozone Friendly' Chemicl San Francisco Examiner 09/01/92
Testimony of Campaign for Respon Tech to Congress CRT 09/15/92
Congress To Sematech:use 10% Of Funds Of Envir Stu Capital Business Austin A 10/05/92
Sematech Must Study Environment San Francisco Chronicle
Sematech's New Mission Is Defined New York Times
Groups Applaud Sematech Funds Decision City&state Austin America 10/06/92
AMD's Sales, Profits Take Off San Jose Mercury News 10/07/92
Intel Move Is A Coup For California
Sematech Funds Earmarked For Environ. Research San Jose Mercury
IBM Warns Workers On Chemicals And Miscarriages San Francisco Chronicle 10/12/92
Miscarriage Warning Spurs Call For Safer Chip Solv San Francisco Examiner
Miscarriages Tied To Chip Factories The New York Times
Miscarriages Tied To Chip Making The Arizona Republic
Sematech Stops Using Rising Liquid Chemical Business Journal Austin
Study Links Chip Chemicals To Workers' miscarriages San Jose Mercury News
Chemical Linked To Miscarriage Scottsdale Progress Health 10/13/92
Chemicals Linked To Miscarriages Albq. Journal
Chip Firms Hit For Miscarriage Risk San Francisco Examiner
Chip Makers Limit Exposure To Two Chemicals San Jose Mercury News
IBM Cuts Use Of Chemicals Linked To Miscarriages The Boston Globe
IBM Warns Workers Of Miscarriage Risk Austin American Statesman
Implications Of IBM Study On Miscarriages San Diego County
Suspect Chemical Used In Mass. Plants The Boston Herald
Electronics, Enviromnentaists Headed For Clash Austin American-Statesman 10/18/92
Progress In Toxic Safety No Excuse For IBM Coverup San Jose Mercury News
Pension Funds Aim For Reforms At AMD 11/07/92
U.S. Chip makers surging to front San Jose Mercury 11/08/92
China To Make Chips San Jose Mercury 11/18/92
If SJ.'s So Hot, Why Is Austin Winning? San Jose Mercury News 11/23/92
Versatronex Says Safety Is Top Priority
Why The Trade Agreement Really Matters
Intel Spending Plan For '93: S2.5 Billion 12/02/92
Striking Versatronex Workers End 6wk Walkout
Chip-making Health Risks Found 12/03/92
Computer Chip Worker Study Confirms Risk/Miscarria Wall Street Journal 12/04/92
Danger Of Miscarriage Found For Chip Workers The New York Times
High Miscarriage Risk Found In Chip Workers San Francisco Chronicle
Study Cites Miscarriage Risks In Chip Plants Washington Post
Study Links Microchip Jobs To Miscarriage Austin American-statesman
Activists Want Timely Toxics Replacement The Union 12/05/92
Groups Threaten Chip Firm Boycott San Jose Mercury
Chips Makers Slow To Address Worker Safety San Jose Mercury News 12/06/92
How Industry, Workers Handle Job Hazards Los Angeles Times 12/07/92
Major S.J. Move In Workers For IBM San Jose Mercury News 12/08/92
Substances From Tiny Materials Promise To Be Future
Women Warned Of VDT Danger San Jose Mercury News
Advocates For High Tech Workers Seek Compliance,no San Francisco Daily Journal 12/10/92
Electronics Mfgt's Worker Safety/Environ Damage IEEE Spectrum 12/21/92
When Will All The Jobs Come Back San Jose Mercury News 12/22/92
The Green PC Windcrest Books 01/01/93
Toxics Coalition: Still Taking On New Battles Milpitas Post 01/02/93
Solvent's Safety Under Question San Diego Union-tribune 01/13/93
Spectrum Cleaning Up IEEE Spectrum 02/01/93
Military Linked To Damage To Ozone Nation 02/12/93
Toxics Group Seeks To Monitor Clean Up At Moffet San Jose Mercury 02/17/93
Sematcch Gets Campaign Proposals The Bargaining Chip 04/01/93
Activists Press For Role At Sematech Austin American 04/07/93
Full-scale Moffett Cleanup Set San Jose Mercury News 04/09/93
Chip Firms, Activists Tackle Environment The Business Journal 04/19/93
U.S. Chip Consortium Turns Concerns To Environment Daily Environment 04/26/93
Miscarriage Of Justice Metro 05/20/93
Heavy Load For Silicon Valley Workers San Francisco Examiner 05/23/93
Toxic puzzle: GTE plant left trail of death Denver Post 06/13/93
High-tech sweatshops siphon off good U. S. jobs AFL-CIO News 06/14/93
Activists Shape High-tech Priorities What Works Bulletin 07/01/93
Nothing Left To Lose Bay Guardian 10/01/93
Implications Of IBM Study On Miscarriage Los Angeles Times 10/13/93
AMD Plans To Build Factory In Texas San Jose Mercury 11/20/93
Intel finds rough going in New Mexico towns San Jose Business Journal 01/24/94
Day Can, Industry Vie For Cheap Rents San Jose Mercury News 01/31/94
Now That The Honeymoon's Over, Environmentalists A E Magazine 03/04/94
Coming Clean in the semiconductor industry Computer Currents 06/01/91
Emissions Monitoring Too Costly: Intel Metro Plus 06/11/94
Water Board Appointee Doomed? (Gary Burke) San Jose Mercury News 06/22/94
Moffett Preparing For New Lease On Life San Francisco Chronicle 07/01/94
Why Intel Jilted The Golden State San Jose Mercury News 07/20/94
Area Firms Cut Back Pollution 07/27/94
Austinites speak out against AMD plan Austin American-Statesman 08/05/94
Health Issues In The Global Semiconductor Industry Annals Academy Of Medecin 09/01/94
Valley firms can curb what goes into Bay San Jose Mercury 09/08/94
Cleaning Up Clean Rooms San Jose Mercury News 12/12/94
Clean up of Bay could cost $200 million San Jose Business Journal 12/19/94
Toxics Imperil Condos San Jose Mercury News 02/02/95
Prop 65 Rules On Toxic Alerts May Be Altered 02/27/95
Coping With The High Cost Of Wafer Fabs Semiconductor International 03/01/95
The Toll of a New Machine Bay Area Computer Current 04/04/93
Intel rebuffs resolution in N.M. San Jose Business Journal 05/29/95
National Semi unit to pay $490,000 fine San Francisco Examiner 06/25/95
Buyers' Green Demands Challenge Suppliers Chemical Week 08/23/95
Greenn and Competitiveness Harvard Business Review 09/01/95
Forum held on high-tech jobs Eugene Register-Guard 10/18/95
Green manufacturing center has roots in CFM research Micro 01/01/96
Technology and Economics in the semiconductor industry Scientific American
We need a citizens' forum on science and technology San Jose Mercury 02/05/96
Not Breathing Any Easier - Romic 02/06/96
Protest commemorates worker's disablement on job 02/16/96
Study: Money wasted on tank cleanup 02/18/96
Pollution Statistics are misleading 02/26/96
IBM plans $750 million expansion in manufacturing San Jose Business Journal 03/11/96
Computer Industry Pushes for Free Trade Wall Street Journal 03/18/96
Ailing Chip Workers Cite Chemicals, Not Chance New York Times 03/28/96
High-tech health concerns Occupational Hazards 06/01/96
LSI Logic pushes for school's ouster San Jose Mercury 06/13/96
Dangers of Chemical Combinations Rachel's Environ & Health
Virginia Braces for ... Change in Becoming Silicon Washington Post 06/16/96
Center for Environmentally Benign Manufacturing Semiconductor Research Co 07/01/96
CEO Takes on a nun in Crusade Against Poi. Correct Wall Street Journal 07/15/96
Intel Inside Austin Austin American-Statesman 07/29/96
Toxic Shock - Are men's sperm counts falling? The Economist 08/03/96
Toxic cleanup payment OK'd San Jose Mercury 08/06/96
US. Border plants accused of bias against women 08/18/96
US investigates IBM importing of Mexican crews 09/28/96
Deformed frogs worry experts Washington Post 10/01/96
IBMs use of visas probed San Jose Mercury
State EPA Study Finds PCE in Many Wells Wall Street Journal 10/02/96
Communities and Workers Beware CRT 11/01/96
High-tech expansion worldwide (chart)
EPA Agreement draws green group fire Reuters 11/19/96
EPA and Arizona Factory Agree on Reg. Plan New York Times 11/20/96
Intel to be its own pollution watchdog San Jose Mercury
Intel gets Project XL permit; enviros criticize BNA Daily Environ Reporte
EPA unveils first major XL permit-critics see flaw Inside EPA 11/22/96
Bay Area's worst pollution San Francisco Examiner 11/27/96
Intel's Accord with EPA raises concerns Los Angeles Times 12/02/96
Big Blue's Union blues Business Week
Abnormal hormone levels found in fish San Jose Mercury 12/03/96
EPA's Project Draws Heat Electronics News I2/25/96
Discharging the red tape of pollution control Electronic Business Today 01/01/97
Malaysia pursues higher high tech San Jose Mercury 01/17/97

Please note that the dates indicated above are the following format: Month/Day/Year.


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