Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Narender Pratap Singh Vs Central Pollution Control Board & Others dated 17/07/2023. Narender Pratap Singh, Gram Pradhan, Bishada, block Bisrakh, tehsil Dadri, district Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh in his application before the National Green Tribunal complained about environmental pollution …
The Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito ruling bloc plans to revise the relief law for asbestos victims so that people confirmed to have died of asbestos-linked illnesses will be entitled to posthumous benefits, according to party lawmakers. A ruling coalition team will meet as early as Wednesday to discuss the matter. …
Probe on Baikal pollution: The Russian prosecutor's office has launched an inquiry into a paper and pulp mill suspected of polluting Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater reserve. The mill, built in 1966, was illegally dumping waste in the lake and was breaking environmental norms in the area; there are …
spoiling act: A group of activists has alleged that a few countries led by Canada are sabotagingun's Rotterdam Convention. The ten-year old convention aims to control global trade in hazardous chemicals. Environmental, gender, labour and health groups from India and abroad have, in a joint statement, said the countries, including …
The health ministry on Friday published the names of 2,167 out of the 2,514 businesses with records of having handled asbestos at the workplace, which is known to cause a range of health problems, notably a rare form of cancer called mesothelioma. The 2,514 businesses each had among their current …
Specialty chemicals firm W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to pay the federal government a record US$250 million for cleaning up asbestos contamination in Libby, Montana, the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. The agreement settles a federal bankruptcy claim over the Libby clean up, and a department …
W. R. Grace & Company, a worldwide chemical company driven into bankruptcy by hundreds of millions of dollars in asbestos poisoning claims, has agreed to pay the federal government $250 million for environmental cleanup around its mining operations in Libby, Mont. The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency …
the Government of India is preparing a report to show the hazard to workers' health from white asbestos is manageable. This came out in a response of the Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers to a Right To Information application by Madhumita Dutta of the Corporate Accountability Desk, an ngo …
first up, another tribute is due to all the people that campaigned and supported the Right To Information Act, 2005. But for this vital legislation, we would have been so much the poorer for not learning what a national disgrace India's union government's ministry of chemicals and fertilizers is. Kudos …
Some 85% of 151 surveyed local governments including Japan's 47 prefectures do not keep taps on the conditions of people who have developed mesothelial tumors due to asbestos exposure, a parliamentary research office said in a survey report Thursday. Of the 151 local governments, 76% were found to have not …
abestos negligence:Two Oklahoma state officials were found guilty of negligence by a federal court jury on August 20, 2007. In 2003, the guilty men, Guy R Hylton, Jr, city manager of the Elk City Community Work Center in Oklahoma, and Chick Arthur Little, a building superintendent, had used inmates of …
On July 25, lab Chrysotile, Canada's major producer of chrysotile asbestos, filed for bankruptcy protection. The Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act grants lab a period of 30 days to submit a proposal. Environmentalists hoped this would signal the end of chrysotile asbestos, allegedly a health hazard. "If they are thinking …
discrimination: On May 29, the US Supreme Court ruled that under a federal job-bias law, workers can't sue to claim they are underpaid because of gender or race discrimination that occurred many years ago. The court rejected a US $360,000-award to Lilly Ledbetter, who worked in Alabama Goodyear Tire and …
on april 4, 2007, the uk Court Of Appeal upheld a high court ruling that gave former dock workers in the country the right to claim compensation from the government for asbestos-related illnesses. The judgment came after the department of trade and industry (dti) appealed a 2006 high court ruling …
Alang's woes On March 12, 2007, the Supreme Court adjourned the hearing of a case against the Norwegian asbestos-laden ship Blue Lady for another six weeks. On March 8, an intervening petition was filed in the ongoing case by sarpanchs from 12 villages around the Alang-Sosiya shipbreaking yard. They argued …
The drive to the Chittagong shipbreaking yards betrays the character of the destination. The road is dotted with shops selling remnants of once-floating behemoths. Timber, torn out of ships, and wood in all shapes and sizes being sold are the most common sight. This is scrap wood and will be …
The Supreme Court has restrained the dismantling of the Norwegian ship, Blue Lady. The ship containing 1,250 tonnes of asbestos docked in July this year at Alang port, Gujarat. The court has also directed the Union ministry of environment and forests to find out if the authorities violated the law …
another attempt to bring chrysotile, the most common form of asbestos, under the prior informed consent list (pic) of the Rotterdam Convention has failed. Parties to this international treaty governing trade in toxic substances met in Geneva between October 10 and 13, 2006. But they couldn't agree on adding chrysotile …
In its June 2006 conference in Geneva, the International Labour Organization adopted a resolution: "Considering that all forms of asbestos including chrysotile...are classified as known human carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer
the past month has been bad for activists and groups fighting big industry and trying to jam the levers they control. In Geneva, the Canadian government put its weight behind the chrysotile (white) asbestos lobby to derail a multilateral process. They successfully managed to keep white asbestos out of the …
Supreme Court had set up a high-level committee of technical experts to examine the working conditions at the Alang shipbreaking yard, Asia's biggest shipbreaking yard. The committee, headed by Prodipto Ghosh, secretary, Union ministry of environment and forests, submitted its report early this month, pinning the blame of poor workers' …
