Inquiry into Quebec’s asbestos mining legacy reveals shocking findings

It has witnessed deaths, lack of compensation and safety and lower penalties in contrast to other Canadian provinces

Johnson & Johnson recalls 33,000 talcum powder bottles after asbestos traces found

The multinational corporation says it will conduct an investigation parallel to the one being conducted by US FDA

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 25, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

March against asbestos

Though its use is banned in most countries, the asbestos industry continues to thrive at the cost of putting millions of people at risk

Asbestos fight gets ugly

Police use batons, tear gas on protesters of plant in Muzaffarpur

Is your talc safe? Lack of consensus puts consumers at risk of cancer, lung problems

Health Canada studied talcum free of asbestos and found the popular cosmetic item can be harmful  

Hill of death

More than 200 people in 14 villages near Roro hill in Jharkhand are dying slowly because of an abandoned asbestos mine

High court orders renewal of permit to Utkal asbestos plant in Bihar

Aggrieved residents likely to appeal against decision of single judge bench

CPCB panel appointed to inspect Utkal Asbestos plant site in Bihar

Patna High Court pulls up state pollution control board for submitting affidavits that contradict each other

India reverses stand on asbestos at Rotterdam Convention meet

Opposes its inclusion in prior informed consent list; campaigners accuse industry lobby of influencing government

Letters

Asbestos-free clutch

Bush wants asbestos protection

Not through this valley

Pact on damages

Asbestos at its worst

Expressly defending white asbestos

The asbestos cement industry is back on the sly with its misinformation campaign. On July 15, 2003, The Indian Express and The Financial Express …

White-faced

Apex court forces authorities to take a stand on asbestos

For the chop

South Africa to ban asbestos

Asbestos convictions

India: a junkyard?

Asbestos to figure in dangerous chemicals' list

Relief for workers

Utkal Asbestos sues Bihar government over Nitish remark

Case filed after chief minister takes a stand against asbestos companies

People protest setting up of asbestos plant in Hajipur

Ransack unit, alleging the Utkal Asbestos Limited made false promises to them