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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Factory goes, toxic waste still pollutes villages
Stink from water of a canal badly polluted by toxic waste of a recently closed factory, which was producing starch powder from potato at Tilokpur in Akkelpur upazila of Bogra, still remains a nuisance
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Duke Energy Agrees to Fund Dan River Cleanup
RALEIGH, N.C. — Environmental officials in North Carolina and Virginia signed an agreement with Duke Energy on Monday for the cleanup of toxic coal ash from the Dan River, which flows through the two states.
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Govt looks away as industrialists dump toxic waste in Sutlej
Even though Rajasthan Chief Minister has written to CM Parkash Singh Badal to check the discharge of industrial waste in Gung and Indira Gandhi Canal, industrial units continue to dump the waste in these
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Pollution killed aquatic life in Sabarmati
Unchecked littering has cost us our rivers and this is particularly true about Sabarmati which today has more garbage than water downstream in the city. Religious paraphernalia thrown from bridges, agricultural
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Action against sugar milldis charging toxic effluent faces delay
A case against the Chashma Sugar Mills, Dera Ismail Khan accused of discharging toxic effluent and thus, causing 10 deaths recently has been pending decision for one and a half years as the provincial
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Plan to free Yamuna of debris
NOIDA: The state irrigation department in Meerut has prepared an exhaustive plan for removal of construction debris from the Yamuna and its banks and to stop further dumping. The department has sent the
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CRT imports posing a major health, environmental hazard: Toxics Links
Massive Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) imports coupled with lack of proper recycling policies and inadequate implementation processes have made India its dumping ground, states the Toxics Link’s latest publication
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U.S. to miss deadline for removing nuclear waste from Los Alamos
The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday said it would be unable to meet a deadline to remove drums of nuclear waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico because of safety concerns tied to
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Traditional owners fear nuclear waste will poison land, court told
The traditional owners of a Northern Territory site earmarked for a nuclear waste storage site fear it will poison the land and will not be satisfied by shifting its location, a court has heard. At
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Tritium levels at Fukushima No. 1 top Pacific Ocean dumping limit, Tepco admits
Water sampled from a well at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has been found to contain levels of radioactive tritium that exceeds the limit for dumping it into the Pacific, operator Tokyo Electric