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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U.S. Nuclear Fund For Waste, Not Deficit: Panel
The U.S. government should start using the $25 billion it has collected for dealing with nuclear waste for its intended use rather than hoarding it to reduce the deficit, a bipartisan panel said on Friday.
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Maharashtra against Carbide waste being burnt in State
<p> The Maharashtra government has filed an intervention appeal before the Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court against its order of July 12 to incinerate toxic waste from the former Union
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Some Worry Tennessee Town May Be World Nuclear Waste Dump
A new contract to process 1,000 tons of nuclear waste from Germany has environmental activists concerned that the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee could become a prime destination for the world's nuclear trash.
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Govt asked to stop use of toxic waste
The High Court yesterday directed the government to stop use of tannery waste in poultry and fish feed production in the capital within 30 days. Delivering a verdict on a writ petition, the court also ordered the government to shut within this period the factories and business enterprises which are using tannery waste as ingredients in poultry and fish feed production. It also asked the auth
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Canada To Step Up Oil Sands Monitoring
Canada will boost monitoring of pollution from its oil sands projects, hoping to speed up U.S.
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Split Within Nuclear Regulatory Agency
A majority of the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission is signaling that it wants to move slowly on at least some new recommendations from its staff on how to reduce the chance of a Fukushima-type accident at an American reactor despite calls by its chairman for swift action. Three commissioners are resisting a proposal by the chairman, Gregory B.
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Whose toxic waste is it anyway?
<p>An indifferent parent, dithering states and a lethargic Centre have allowed Union Carbide’s deadly waste to poison the soil and groundwater in Bhopal Oliver Twist would feel for the 350 million tonnes of toxic chemicals still sitting inside the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal.
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HC stays import of toxic waste from MP
The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the state government not to allow the transport of 247 tonnes of toxic waste from Bhopal
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Work on setting up ETP in Savar to begin in 3 months
Works on setting up of the much-needed central effluent treatment plant in Savar will begin by the next three months as the implementing agency is now at the final stage to this end, said a top official of the ministry. The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation, the implementing agency of the project, already received the financial offers and the technical committee comprising exp
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The Fear of a Toxic Rerun
A $230 million refinery being built here in an effort to break China