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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IAEA backs controlled discharge of tainted water into sea from Fukushima plant
The U.N. nuclear watchdog has urged Japan to consider “controlled discharges” into the sea of contaminated water used to cool the crippled reactors at Fukushima. The proposal was among recommendations
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Authorities fail to shift dyeing units from residential areas
The authorities have failed to shift most of the dyeing units operating from residential and non-conforming areas to the special industrial zone in HUDA Sector 29 Part-II here. The zone was created a few
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Radiation leak detected at New Mexico nuclear plant
US investigators have been taking samples at a New Mexico underground nuclear waste site where airborne radiation was detected, though authorities stressed they had found no contamination. Officials
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Environmentalists: Rooppur plant lacks proper assessment
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) organised the discussion at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity Environmentalists have expressed concerns over the establishment of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant alleging that the
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NGT committee to determine cause of Ganga pollution
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday formed a high-level expert panel to determine whether the Ganga was being polluted by industrial effluents that are discharged into it through the Simbhaoli
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U.P. notice to Delhi Government for releasing toxic water into Yamuna
Putrid water is being released by drainages With water from the Yamuna becoming increasingly contaminated and unfit for human consumption in Agra and Mathura, the Uttar Pradesh Government has served notice on the Delhi government to ensure that toxic water is not released into the river by factories.
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Disposal of toxic waste of Union Carbide factory- Question raised in Rajya Sabha, 07/02/2014
Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha on disposal of toxic waste of Union Carbide factory, Srikant Kumar Jena, the minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers stated that the matter of providing oversight and support to all remediation actions, including disposal of toxic waste lying in around the UCIL plant site at Bhopal is being dealt with by the Oversight Committee constituted in the Ministry of Environment and Forests as per the decision of Cabinet.
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Up to 82,000 Tons of Toxic Coal Ash Spilled Into North Carolina River
A stormwater pipe under an unlined coal ash pond at a shuttered plant in Eden, N.C., burst Sunday afternoon — draining tens of thousands of tons of coal ash into the Dan River. Duke Energy, which owns
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Sindh’s losing wetlands to industrial pollution
While the nations around the world were busy celebrating World Wetlands Day (WWD) on Sunday to mark the date of the adoption of Convention on Wetlands, February 2, 1971 in Iranian city of Ramsar on the
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Villagers appeal for closure of polluting aluminium factory
Thanneerpandhal residents’ earlier petitions remain unattended The public of Thanneerpandhal village in Gudiyatham taluk met the Vellore Collector R. Nanthagopal during the weekly public grievances redressal day camp at the Collectorate here on Monday and submitted to him a memorandum urging him to take immediate steps to close an aluminium factory in the village which has been causing air pollution and the resultant health hazards to the people in the nearby Adi Dravida colony.