Tag: industrial pollution

Delfin Mallari Jr., Inquirer, Manila, September 26, 2006 LUCENA CITY — A dumping site for hazardous chemical wastes has been discovered in a coconut plantation in Candelaria, Quezon, an official of the nationwide environmentalist group Tanggol Kalikasan (TK, Defend Nature) said Tuesday. Juliet Aparicio, TK program officer, said more than 90 plastic and steel drums…

OMBWATCH, JULY 31, 2006 Corporate special interests are about to have the best friend they could have wished for installed in the White House office that oversees regulatory policy. The White House announced today its intention to nominate Susan Dudley, an anti-regulatory extremist from the industry-funded Mercatus Center, to an obscure but powerful office, where…

OMBWATCH, September 26, 2006 Last night, the Homeland Security Appropriations Conference Committee struck a deal to attach chemical security language to the FY 2007 DHS spending bill. The language, agreed upon by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) last week, is a retreat from stronger, bipartisan bills pending in both houses and,…

Stephen Leahy, Rome, September 25, 2006 (IPS) – A green chemical revolution is underway that promises to be environmentally sustainable and profitable while reducing the risks of industrial disasters like the Bhopal, India gas leak in 1984. “Green chemistry” has already turned maize into biodegradable plastics, developed non-toxic solvents and dramatically reduced the toxic byproducts…

MU XUEQUAN, XINHUA ONLINE, SEPTEMBER 24, 2006 GENEVA, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — The toxic waste dumping incident in Cote d’Ivoire has caused a severe public health crisis, and clean-up work will take about six weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Since the incident happened on Aug. 19, over 44,000 people in the…

Maria Daly, Athlone Advertiser, September 20, 2006 People living in Athlone could face compulsary resettlement if a Chernobyl-like nuclear explosion was to happen in the Welsh nuclear power plant of Wylfa. The new fallout maps were created for a conference by the Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities Forum (NFLA). The conference will take place in…

Joe Bavier, News24.com, September 14, 2006 Abidjan – A child crouches at the summit of a mountain of garbage at the Akouedo landfill on the outskirts of Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, scouring through the rubbish for something useful or saleable, an eerie silhouette on the horizon between sky and trash. The more than 100-hectare garbage…

Ben Nelms, The Citizen, Georgia, September 16, 2006 State and federal officials confirmed Friday that tests showed toxic chemical presence of hundreds of thousands of times the accepted upper safe exposure levels for humans in south Fulton County beginning in late spring and early summer. “Based on results from environmental sampling, preliminary analysis of reported…

Stacy Shelton, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 15, 2006 Clare Hindman’s family thought she’d had a stroke. When she spoke at a community meeting in a church, a friend thought she’d been drinking. On the Hindmans’ kitchen calendar, where they keep track of birthdays, beach vacations and fishing trips, her husband, Earl, wrote “All of June…

Joe Bavier, VOA News, Abidjan, September 14, 2006 The government has resigned. Top officials have been arrested. And around 16,000 people have sought treatment for symptoms believed linked to the illegal dumping of hundreds of tons of toxic waste in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan. But to the residents of the village of Akouedo, the…

Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2006 RICHLAND, Wash. — On a desert plateau seven miles from the Columbia River, a massive federal project to clean up a Cold War-era nuclear weapons plant is deeply troubled. The effort to avoid an environmental calamity here, at the most polluted site in North America, is a priority of…

Associated Press, September 14, 2006 DEEPWATER, N.J. — The Defense Department said it could save up to $400 million by sending its chemical weapon waste to DuPont’s Chambers Works plant for treatment. The waste would come from stockpiles of mustard gas and nerve agents from Kentucky and Colorado chemical plants. The DuPont facility has already…

LAWRENCE HAJNA, COURIER-POST, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006 Opponents of the Army’s plan to ship neutralized VX nerve agent from Indiana to a wastewater treatment plant in South Jersey have long feared that the project could open the door to the region becoming the final destination for more chemical weapons waste products. Meetings this week in Kentucky…

NEWS24.COM, ABIDJAN, SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 Abidjan – The death toll in Ivory Coast’s toxic waste scandal has risen to six, while about 9 000 people have been poisoned by the chemical dumped on open-air sites in Abidjan, said the Ivorian health ministry on Monday. Jean Denoman, deputy director of health said: “We have as of…

ASSOCIATED PRESS, SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 BEIJING The senior managers of two factories in central China blamed for tainting a river with toxic arsenide have been detained and could face criminal charges, state media said. Last week, high levels of arsenide poison were found in Hunan province’s Xinqiang River, forcing authorities to cut off drinking water…