Full Coverage: Pollution

31.03.2005 The Action Committee to Save the Bay of Vlora organized a protest, on March 27, 2005, against the planned construction of thermoelectric power plant in the area of Vlora. The protests were joined by numerous environmental organizations from all over the country.

30.03.2005 Activists accuse Coca-Cola of creating severe water shortages in India, polluting the soil and groundwater, and selling drinks containing dangerously high levels of pesticides, among other crimes. In Colombia, the company is charged with complicity in the murder, torture and intimidation of labor union organizers at its bottling plants. A speaking tour to hold Coca-Cola accountable will take place throughout the month of April in the U.S.

29.03.2005 A meeting of environmental organizations active in the areas in which the route of the Jadranski Naftovod Pipeline passes was held in Njivice on the island of Krk, on Monday, March 28.

24.03.2005 In picking scientist and long-time Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee Steve Johnson to lead the EPA, analysts hoped President Bush was signaling that the government agency would consider science above politics in environmental decisions. Clean Air Watch president Frank O'Donnell writes, however, that the White House continues to place industry interests first.

24.03.2005 The environmentalists of Vlora, a coastal city in Albania, are among the first environmentalists concerned of the construction of 5 thermoelectric power plants in the bay of Vlora, the construction of the refinery which will produce 36 million tones of petrol per year, the construction of petrol deposits of ARMO as well as of the terminal of the AMBO project that, every day, will furnish the tankers with 300.000 tones petroleum and its by-product.

22.03.2005 The Spring Day in Europe 2005 event takes place every year in all countries of the Europe. This is the third year that the festivities are organized in Macedonia, introduced for the first time three years ago, at the initiative by the late President Boris Trajkovski.

22.03.2005 The “Eco-Misija” Environmental Association demanded, during the elections campaign for the first round of 2005 Local Elections, from all candidates for the office of Mayor of Skopje, to declare Vodno Mountain a pedestrian zone.

17.03.2005 The U.S. agency charged with protecting the environment passed a new mercury pollution rule on Tuesday that does little to decrease levels of the toxin in the atmosphere and would even cause sharp rises in some states, say environmentalists, expecting lawsuits to challenge the rule.

11.03.2005 World praises the Taj, and it ignores the plight of the mineworkers working in mine fields of Makrana in Rajasthan, which supplied marbles for the Taj and continues to supply marble to the world, reports Snehasis Das.

11.03.2005 "This is an easy no vote for me," said the lone Republican to oppose President Bush's "Clear Skies" initiative, which many say is little more than an industry handout. "I am very comfortable that existing legislation protects our environment and our air better than Clear Skies." The next big industry/environmental fight could come over proposed mercury emissions rules, expected next week.

09.03.2005 The Senate committee on the environment is expected to take up President Bush's highly controversial 'Clear Skies' legislation Wednesday, but Clean Air Watch president Frank O'Donnell warns that the bill is little more than a smokescreen, providing big-time breaks to the biggest polluters and putting off cleanup until at least the mid-2020s.