The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
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China's JinkoSolar must face U.S. lawsuit over pollution, protests
JinkoSolar Holding Co must face a shareholder lawsuit accusing the Chinese solar panel maker of concealing that one of its factories was dumping toxic waste into a nearby river, a U.S. appeals court ruled
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Panel wants TEPCO execs charged over nuke crisis
A Japanese judicial panel has recommended that three former executives of the utility that operates the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant face criminal charges over their role in the disaster. A document
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Town picked as candidate for radiation-tainted waste dump, drawing protest
The government notified a town in Tochigi Prefecture on Wednesday that it has been picked as a candidate site for the final disposal of some of the radiation-tainted waste resulting from the 2011 Fukushima
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e-waste recycling turns water, soil toxic
Extremely high levels of heavy metals found in samples from Loni and Mandoli Lab testing of soil and water samples from the Loni and Mandoli areas of Delhi reveals high contamination of both with heavy
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Oil drilling in North Dakota raises concerns about radioactive waste
Finding radioactive oil field waste is 'a game of cat-and-mouse,' North Dakota landfill director says Bakken oil boom spurs fear of improperly dumped hazardous waste in North Dakota Every weekday, about
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Impact of e-waste recycling on water and soil
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/images/20050331/42.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 214px; margin: 7px; float: left;" />This report released by Toxics Link reveals that
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Four factories busted for using tannery waste
A mobile court yesterday sealed off four factories at Hazaribagh for using tannery waste in poultry and fish feed that contains hazardous chemical chromium. The court also ordered the agencies concerned
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Tepco Says It Has Turned Corner on Fukushima Nuclear Clean-Up
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that after three years of mishaps it’s starting to gain control over decommissioning work at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station, as Japan’s biggest utility begins building
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City grapples with ever-growing pile of hazardous e-waste
The next iPhone is coming out in a few months’ time. Before the end of the year, televisions with till now unheard of technology and laptops thinner and lighter than anything in the market will be released.
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West Virginia Chemical Spill Sets Off a Waste Dispute
Six months after a chemical spill fouled a vital West Virginia water supply, a fight is brewing over the tons of waste it left behind. The small city of Hurricane, W.Va., and surrounding Putnam County,