Industry

 Fine for a firm

US jet engine and automobile-part manufacturer, United Technologies Corp, has been fined $5.3 million for its carelessness in handling and discharging hazardous wastes in recent years. The wastes

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Automobiles, Waste Disposal, Hazardous Products, Industry, United States Of America (US), Toxic Wastes
Industry

 Will imposition of green taxes be viable?

Down To Earth"s round table on fiscal instruments to manage the environment brought together economists, environmentalists and representatives from industry. What emerged was that the concept of economic instruments, though still at a nascent stage, is b

Publication Date: 
14/02/1993
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Environment, Pollution Control, Water Conservation, Hazardous Products, Ecology, Industry, Subsidies
Agriculture

 Air losing self cleaning ability

Recent studies indicate increasing pollution may be hampering the atmosphere's inherent cleansing abilty

Publication Date: 
14/09/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Atmosphere, Hazardous Products
Agriculture

 Carnivorous algae

THE INCREASE in phosphate wastes released into rivers over the last 20 years may in turn have increased the frequency of "red tides" (coloured springtime algal efflorescences) which poison and kill

Publication Date: 
14/09/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Fish, Hazardous Products, Science And Technology, United States Of America (US), Toxins
Industry

 Asbestos convictions

SIX ASBESTOS companies have been convicted by a Baltimore Circuit Court jury in what is expected to be a model for the over 100,000 asbestos personal injury claims pending before federal and state

Publication Date: 
14/09/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Asbestos, Hazardous Products, Industry

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