Heavy metals in cosmetics: government silent on tightening rules

After Rajya Sabha MP raises concerns, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad cites rules but says little about protecting consumers

Minamata Convention: deal signed to phase out mercury by 2020

From 2020, production, import and export of products that contain mercury will be banned under Minamata Convention

A very heavy metal load

Waters of the gulf of Mannar and Palk bay are contaminated with industrial pollutants like lead

Coal politics in an unequal world

US sets mercury emission limits

India still far from setting standards for toxic pollutants from power plants

Parking poison

Coal-based plants spew mercury

Mercury takes the shine off CFLs

Lower watt lamps use more mercury for extra glow, says study

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Industry evades responsibility for heavy metals in cosmetics

Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) has refused to accept that their products have toxins

DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat

NGT orders Singrauli polluters to provide clean drinking water to residents, or face closure

Directs industries in the coal and power hub to stop dumping industrial waste into Rihand reservoir and connected rivers

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Free the air of mercury

Newly launched Minamata Convention weak on mercury released by thermal power plants

In Brief

MoEF drags feet over law for safe disposal of CFLs

Reasons for prolonged delay unknown

Unchecked

Industry flouts weak regulations at will

Unsettling

What the Centre and the state government did to rehabilitate victims

Serving the symptom

The government still does not know what still afflicts people in Bhopal

Foul Debris

The UCIL plant is still a health hazard

Industry sets the rules to dispose of CFLs safely

Proposes pilot project for collecting, recycling CFLs in three cities

Mercury treaty still sketchy

While experts welcome the Minamata Convention for phasing out mercury, they believe it might not be enough

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Mind the mercury

Why no one is checking how mercury-laden CFLs are handled and discarded

BHOPAL: the bad dream continues

Bhopal is a metaphor for disaster, industrial and human. It has been the object of much speculation and typically endless litigation. A case …

Coal toll

More than 70 per cent of India's electricity is produced by coal-fired power plants. Most of them do not have modern technologies and use low-…