Mining

 Andhra uranium mining project gives locals short shrift

widespread resistance to a new uranium mine and processing plant in his long-time Pulivendula assembly constituency in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock to chief minister Y S

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
S Ramakrishna
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mining, Uranium, Health Effects, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Conflicts, Compensation, Human Rights, Politics, India, Andhra Pradesh, Nalgonda (D)
Mining

 Project voices

MAUP view • MECON consultants, who made the EIA, were influenced by DAE and UCIL • EIA hasn't considered alternatives • UCIL doesn't have technology for getting

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mining, Uranium, Pennar, Health Effects, Radiation, Tamil Nadu
Industry

 Periyar river's pollution is Eloor's bane

a people's Right Declaration Convention held on September 17, 2006, at Eloor

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
M Suchitra
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Periyar, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Pesticide Industry, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal, Compensation, DDT, Endosulfan, Industry, India, Kerala
Industry

 Comic film on workings of big business tobacco industry

Smoking

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Effects, Smoking, Industry, Media, Cinema
Agriculture

 Phorate poisoning affects people in Jalandhar, Punjab

In the last week of July, most of the residents in the village Salkiana in Jalandhar, Punjab, experienced suffocation and breathlessness, following the spray of a deadly pesticide phorate in a nearby

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Agriculture, Pesticides, Health Effects, Child Health, Punjab
India

 US reaction to cola controversy exaggerrated India Inc

Soon after the cola controversy (see

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Food Standards, Food Contamination, Soft Drinks, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Health Effects, Economy, Pesticide Residues, CSE, India, Kerala
Climate Change

 European Commission bans 22 chemicals in hair dyes

The European Commission has banned 22 chemicals used in hair dyes, following research by its scientific committee that links long-term use of certain products to an increased risk of bladder cancer.

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
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Health Effects, Legislation, Europe, Toxins
Agriculture

 Pesticides in US farmworkers' children

evidence has been found of pesticide exposure in small children (1-6 year olds) of farm-workers in the us, say researchers at the Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Led by Thomas Arcury,

Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Pesticides, Health Effects, Farmers, Child Health, Occupational Health, Pesticide Residues, Research, Information, United States Of America (US)
Industry

 Villagers in Tamil Nadu face groundwater crisis

Soft drinks company held for contaminating groundwater

Publication Date: 
30/07/2006
R K Srinivasan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Soft Drinks, Health Effects, Industry, Chennai (D)
Mining

 South Asia

radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and

Publication Date: 
29/06/2006
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Mining, Uranium, Health Effects, Mango, Trade, Farmers, Nuclear Wastes, Imports, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldah

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