The Third World's burden

Toxic Le Clemenceau dumped on India is just another instance of the West's double standards

Killer industries

Government- industrialist nexus and public apathy have become incentives for norm-flounting industries in Gujarat

A chance to waste

Political parties want the government of India to ratify the Basel ban on import of hazardous waste

Book review: Toxicity

The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future By Bruce E Johansen (Praeger Publishers, 2003)

Bright colours, dark secret

Dressed to kill - no more

Troubled waters

Two US ships used for carrying hazardous waste were broken in Gujarat

Goodbye, azo dyes

Azo dyes have finally been banned in India as they are carcinogenic

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PCB's under study

Dock dangers

Ungainly volte face

SCMC gives green signal to Danish ship

Dangerous limits

Changes to US inventory of toxic chemicals opposed

Courting justice

The law reigned supreme as recently, some environmental and public health truants were rebuked for cocking a snook at all set standards

Should not go waste, this

The proposed hazardous waste management project again" brings to light the Indian government's tendency to prevent free flow of crucial data …

What a waste

The government is yet to decide what stand to take on the international trade in recyclable waste as banning it completely will hit industry hard

Blind alleys

Even after 50 years of Independence, freedom of information eludes the nation. Little is known of the state of India's environment. Efforts …

Banning by the barrel

On November 26, 2003 Armenia ratified the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and …

Plutonium protests

Asbestos convictions

Carnivorous algae

Malignant milk?

TAKEN TO TASK

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