Lead

UN Human Rights urge protection of activists testifying in lead pollution case

Four United Nations human rights experts are calling for greater protection for Kenyan activists who have testified against a local lead-smelting plant accused of environmental pollution.

Publication Date:

31/05/2018

Tags:

Environment, Pollution, Kenya, Industrial Pollution, Lead, Heavy Metals, Africa

Environment

Mombasa lead poisoning victim demand billions in compensation

Kavumbi Munga takes an oath ready to testify at the Mombasa High Court on Thursday 17th May 2018, in a case where Owino Uhuru residents want compensation over the chemical from Lead Company which t

Publication Date:

21/05/2018

Source: Standard Media (Kenya)

Tags:

Environment, Lead, Pollution, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Kenya, Compensation, High Court, Industrial Pollution, Africa

Environment

Nigeria: 'Lead Poison Leaves Over 7,000 Children, Women in Critical Health Condition'

About 7,000 people, mostly women and children, are adversely affected due to lead poison associated with mining activities in gold bearing zone of Nigeria.

Publication Date:

08/05/2018

Source: All Africa

Tags:

Environment, Lead, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Children, Women, Mining, Gold, Nigeria, Africa

Environment

NGT order on ‘lead content’ warning in PVC pipes to push up costs

First step towards banning the harmful chemical, replacing pipes across country

Publication Date:

02/05/2018

Source: Business Line (New Delhi)

Tags:

Plastics, Chemical Industry, Toxic Wastes, Bureau Of Indian Standards (BIS), Lead, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Environmental Security, Health Effects

Water Pollution

Water to blame for endemic kidney failures in a village?

The health department has finally acted upon and collected water samples from Asola village, where kidney failures are reported to be endemic.

Publication Date:

12/03/2018

Source: Times of India (Nagpur)

Tags:

Maharashtra, Nagpur (D), Water Pollution, Health Effects, Mercury, Lead, Yavatmal (D)

Environment

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide— three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. In the most severely affected countries, pollution-related disease is responsible for more than one death in four.

Publication Date:

03/02/2018

Author(s): Philip J Landrigan, Richard Fuller, Nereus J R Acosta

Source: Lancet

Vol:

391

pp:

1-51

Tags:

Pollution, Health Effects, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Toxins, PCBs, Pesticides, Lead, Indoor Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, India, Bangladesh, Poverty, PM 2.5, South Asia, Respiratory Diseases, Occupational Health

Pesticides And Toxins

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding phasing out of PVC pipes containing lead, 24/01/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jan Sahyog Manch Vs. Union of India & Others dated 24/01/2018 regarding phasing out of PVC pipes containing lead.

MoEF is directed to issue general directions to the industries to publish a caveat with each product of PVC pipes containing lead, which are going to be phased out, that it contains lead which is harmful to the health.

Judgement Date:

24/01/2018

Tags:

Lead, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Heavy Metals, India, Ministry of Environment and Forests & Others

Health

Factors associated with elevated blood lead levels in children

Aligarh, a densely populated town of Uttar Pradesh, is the hub of a variety of industries and is feared to be home to children at risk of lead exposure. Hence, this study was planned to determine the socio-demographic and clinical correlates of elevated blood lead levels in children of Aligarh.

Original Source

Publication Date:

15/01/2018

Author(s): Sakshi Chaudhary, Uzma Firdaus, Syed Manazir Ali & et al

Source: Indian Pediatrics

Vol:

55

Issue:

1

pp:

38-41

Tags:

Lead, Child Health, Health Effects, Heavy Metals, Industrial Pollution, Aligarh (T), Uttar Pradesh, Mental Health

Hazardous Waste

Johannesburg suffocates in shadow of mine dumps

JOHANNESBURG - "Look at my spinach. That is the sand from the mine. The yellow one in the soil -- it's destroying everything," said Thabo Ngubane as he tended his small allotment in Soweto.

Publication Date:

02/01/2018

Source: ENCA (South Africa)

Tags:

Hazardous Waste, Mining Waste, Health Effects, Agriculture, South Africa, Environment, Arsenic, Lead, Africa

Health