"As usual, the chemical industry is misleading the American people and the press. The American Chemistry Council has known that we designed the broadcast to include industry representatives. Weeks ago we even provided the industry with the very questions to be discussed on the broadcast. When Terry Yosie, the industry spokesman, told me that the industry wants to address issues of worker and product safety and the benefits to society of chemicals, I agreed. Mr. Yosie won't tell you that, because Mr. Yosie is trying to defend the industry against the indefensible record in its own documents.

I consider myself in good company to be attacked by the industry that tried to smear Rachel Carson when she published Silent Spring. As its own documents reveal, this is the industry that kept from its workers the truth about what was making them sick; that opposes the right of citizens to know what is polluting their communities; that manipulated its own science to hide the hazards of chemicals; that spent millions of dollars to buy political influence, carve loopholes in environmental law, and create a regulatory system that it controls. The people who watch TRADE SECRETS will decide for themselves who is guilty of malpractice."