The Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG) has been investigating mercury-added skin lightening products (SLPs) for several years, primarily due to their health risks, their illegality under many national laws, and the prohibition by the Minamata Convention on Mercury against the manufacture and trade of mercury-added SLPs, which generally became effective …
Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are known for saving power. What is less known is that they have high mercury content, which damages the environment and human health. According to non-profit Toxics Link, 22 sample bulbs taken from the four leading manufacturing brands of CFLs in India showed mercury presence up …
India has no law to mandate manufacturers to cap mercury level in lamps Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) being used in the Indian market could have major health implications for unsuspecting consumers, a significant new study on mercury contained in these energy efficient devices has shown. Although mercury (a highly toxic …
The House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday to block regulations that force industry to reduce unhealthy air emissions, such as mercury from coal-fired power plants, but the White House has promised to veto the measure and keep new clean air rules in place. The vote was 249 to …
The United States will enforce a Bush-era standard on smog pollution after the White House, under pressure from Republicans, killed a tougher plan, the country's top environmental regulator said on Thursday. Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told a congressional hearing her office will enforce a standard limiting …
China will tighten emission standards for thermal power plants, a main source of pollution, aiming to curb worsening environmental degradation. The Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a report on its website that emissions allowances for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and soot for thermal power plants would be reduced, while …
The Environmental Protection Agency will miss an end-of-month target for proposing greenhouse gas regulations for power plants, the head of the EPA said on Wednesday. The administration of President Barack Obama is under pressure from business to cut environmental regulation that critics say is hurting the economy, and last week …
A one day workshop cum awareness on the theme - Bio-medical Waste Management and Mercury Phase out from the Health Sector in Manipur was held at, Imphal on 13th of September 2011; which is jointly organized by the Manipur Pollution Control Board (MPCB), Toxics Link and Institute of Social Research …
London: A UK-based company has developed what it claims is probably the world’s best green alternative to cremation — an “alkaline hydrolysis” unit, which has been installed at a funeral home in Florida, US. The unit by Glasgowbased Resomation Ltd works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water; it …
CFLs use less energy than the conventional incandescent lamps reducing the mercury (Hg) emissions associated with generating the energy to power conventional lamps. There are however, environment and health issues related to CFLs as they contain mercury that is integral to them (the white light produced by CFLs is possible …
Concerned with tar balls washing ashore after the sunken MV Rak Carrier began puking oil, I’ve decided to stay away from seafood. But has the fish we consume been safe otherwise? I’m afraid not. In 2005, when dead fish shoals washed ashore Mumbai’s beaches, I’d collected samples of sea water …
A year after the Delhi government issued a stricture to ban the use of mercury-based instruments in hospitals, as much as 90 kg of the liquid metal has been sold by over 60 hospitals. This was possible after the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) emerged with a unique plan to …
A massive expansion in thermal power generation in India is on the anvil. Environmental clearances have already been granted to about 200,000 MW of thermal power projects and capacity totaling to another 500,000 MW is in various stages of securing environmental clearance. This report highlights, apart from the sheer scale …
The thermal power generation capacity in India is set to expand massively. Data from the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) analysed by the Prayas Energy Group shows that the ministry has accorded environmental clearances to a large number of coal and gas-based power plants whose capacity totals 192,913 MW. …
Federal mandates under the 1970 Clean Air Act have produced cleaner cars, fuels and factories, significantly improving the air Americans breathe. Yet the underlying standards setting limits on ground-level ozone, the main component of harmful smog, have remained unchanged since 1997 — even as science has made it abundantly clear …
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined with the Sierra Club on Thursday in a $50 million, four-year plan to campaign for replacing one-third of aging U.S. coal-fired power plants with clean energy. "If we are going to get serious about reducing our carbon footprint in the United States, we have …
People living in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida are most at risk in the United States from toxic emissions spewing from coal and oil-fired power plants, two leading American environmental groups said in a report on Wednesday. Electricity generation and chemical processing were the top culprits for dangerous emissions, which can …
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued a welcome and overdue rule compelling power plants in 27 states and the District of Columbia to reduce smokestack emissions that pollute the air and poison forests, lakes and streams across the eastern United States. The regulation reflects the E.P.A.
Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace. Soon, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for …
