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13 May 2008

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Global Action on ArcelorMittal

Dead workers, stinking pollution and forced evictions: New report highlights ArcelorMittal's global trail of destruction

A newly-formed coalition of environmental and community groups - Global Action on ArcelorMittal - today released a report showing how local residents and workers around the world pay the price of ArcelorMittal's success. The report...contains nine case studies detailing ArcelorMittal's legacy of pollution, environmental damage, health impacts and poor worker safety. In the report the coalition demands that: ArcelorMittal implements environmental and health action plans...Governments should not give ArcelorMittal perverse tax breaks or allow it to dispossess people from their land...Public financial institutions should not support polluting industry such as ArcelorMittal, which has extensive resources of its own...

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