Kicking up a stink

Okhla waste to energy plant is spewing lead, other toxins into air, say residents

Air quality near the municipal waste incinerator in Sukhdev Vihar in south Delhi is life threatening, claim residents after they got air samples tested by an independent agency. Residents say the levels of fine particulate pollution around the incinerator would have “triggered a health warning of emergency conditions” had it been in the US. 

Ban toxic imports: court

Bhopal to Germany

Patronising dirty technology

Too hot to handle

India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough? A fire at Ankleshwar forced India to rethink how it handles hazardous waste. Drums carrying dangerous industrial sludge flew amid leaping flames and burst in the air at a waste storage at the industrial complex in Bharuch district of Gujarat on April 3 last year. Ash fell all around. People in nearby villages were told to evacuate; many suffered coughing, headache, nausea and burning sensation in the nose and throat.

Soft Target

safe inside the warm womb of the mother, a child kicks and turns. This is the third time that Sarah Connell is pregnant, but she has never reached her second trimester of pregnancy. She aborted twice earlier. This time she has moved houses, cleaned up her home, and taken every precaution to ensure that this baby survives. So far all is well.

Centre to identify a laboratory to analyse toxic waste from Union Carbide factory

The Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Centre to identify a laboratory in the country to analyse the waste from Union Carbide and prepare an environmental impact assessment on the impact of burning it in Nagpur.

DRDO unit not fit to handle union carbide waste : MPCB

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has told the Madhya Pradesh High Court in an affidavit that the DRDO facility at Nagpur has neither the requisite infrastructure nor the storage facilities for handling toxic waste from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. What's more, the incinerator at the facility has been non-functional for the past two years.

Bhopal’s toxic waste raises stink

A NAGPUR Bench of the Bombay High Court has stalled the transfer of toxic waste from Bhopal to Maharashtra amid protests by residents and activists.