Health Effects

lethal teflon: The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has charged the DuPont company with hiding the adverse health and environmental effects of Teflon, used in its non-stick cookware and carpet

Publication Date:

30/08/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040831

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Glaciers, Health Effects, Climate Change, Nuclear Power, Compensation, Industry, Patents, Legislation, China, Peru

Environment

Supreme Court orders of 26 October 2004, 17 September 2004 and 17 August 2004 on Bhopal Gas Disaster

Twenty years after the worst ever man-made disaster in the country, victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy got a direction from the Supreme Court for the disbursement of a Rs 1,567 crore compensation to them, paid by US pesticide major Union Carbide.

Publication Date:

17/08/2004

Source: International Environmental Law Research Centre

Tags:

Health Effects, Environment, Health Care, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, Madhya Pradesh, Switzerland, International Environmental Law Research Centre, Compensation

Environment

Supreme Court order on Bhopal Gas Disaster dated 19/07/2004

Supreme Court order dated July 19 2004 directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to release Rs 1503 crore deposited with it by the company for disbursement to Bhopal gas tragedy victims.

Publication Date:

19/07/2004

Source: International Environmental Law Research Centre

Tags:

Environment, Compensation, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, Madhya Pradesh, Switzerland, International Environmental Law Research Centre, Health Effects

India

Bytes

the good dose: As per a study by the US-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a combination of three drugs

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040715

pp:

0

Tags:

Corals, Health Effects, Women, Drugs, Infant Formula, Meningitis, AIDS, Obesity, Micro Organisms, Research, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries

Air Pollution

Sinister pattern

Analysis of Asian studies highlights universality of air pollution problem

Publication Date:

14/07/2004

Author(s): Anumita Roychowdhury

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Air Pollution, Health Effects, Asia

Air Pollution

Effects of particulate air pollution on the respiratory health of subjects who live in three areas in Kanpur, India

In this study, the authors assessed the relationship between daily changes in respiratory health and particulate levels with diameters of (a) less than 10 μm (PM₁₀) and (b) less than 2.5 μm (PM_2.5) in Kanpur, India.

Publication Date:

01/07/2004

Author(s): Mukesh Sharma, V. Narendra Kumar, Subodh K. Katiyar & et al

Source: Archives of Environmental Health

Vol:

59

Issue:

7

pp:

348

Tags:

Air Pollution, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Kanpur (T), Urban Air Quality, RSPM (PM 10), PM 2.5