Full Coverage: Pollution

28.07.2005 The Rainbow Warrior slipped into the harbour of the world's biggest coal port this morning and dropped anchor to shut down coal exports for five hours in Newcastle, Australia.

26.07.2005 Ce que proposent les journées Alternatives 2005 : Créer des espaces pour débattre des luttes et des solidarités qui nous animent, en démontrant comment chacune de ces batailles, aussi locale soit-elle, s’inscrit dans une résistance globale pour le bien commun. Parce qu’en renforçant notre mouvement social ici, en préparant nos batailles et en consolidant nos solidarités au Québec et au Canada, c’est à un mouvement global que nous contribuons.

26.07.2005 Efforts to remove toxic arsenic from drinking water in the Indian state of West Bengal are failing, according to a study published this month. Researchers from Jadhavpur University say that efforts by the Indian government to decontaminate groundwater have failed.

25.07.2005 Fifteen years ago, after discovering carcinogenic solvents in their drinking water, Wisconsin citizens began demanding that nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant--which was polluting the region’s water, land, and air--be closed. Today, the clean up continues and the volunteers remain a steady voice for human health.

21.07.2005 At its 119th session, the Government of Sarajevo Canton adopted the Draft-Law on Declaring “Vrelo Bosna” (Spring of Bosna River) Natural Monument. The Draft-Law defines the borders of the monument, the category of protection, zoning rules, developmental goals, protective measures, intervention in the protected area, as well as the use of natural resources, management and financing of the area.

21.07.2005 The Environmental Inspectorate and the Tirana Police Department announced that they will double the fines for legal entities that pollute the streets in Albanian capital.

19.07.2005 The campaign to replace the plastic with shopping bags made of cloth, sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, started last week with distribution of textile bags to the shoppers in front of “Vero” supermarket and “McDonalds” restaurant in Skopje.

14.07.2005 Exposure to hundreds of toxic chemicals begins in the womb, according to a new US study.

12.07.2005 The areas of Golem and Shkembi I Kavajes, near Durres in Central Albania are endangered by pollution. The sea in these areas remains the most threatened by solid waste discarded by a number of construction companies, which dump the refuse both under the cover of the night, but also in broad daylight.

07.07.2005 Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a permit allowing the Coeur d’Alene mining company to dump chemically-processed waste into a southeast Alaskan lake--a region the federal government calls an "aquatic resource of national importance." The permit, granted after recent changes to the Clean Water Act, could pave the way for other companies to follow suit.

05.07.2005 The World Bank approved the Croatian project for renewable energy resources development that should enable the country to use more clean energy in the future.

05.07.2005 Despite the evidence for climate change, oil companies encourage the use of fossil fuels. But Greenpeace ranks ExxonMobil the world's number one climate criminal, working--both internationally and domestically--to dismiss the viability of alternative fuels, discredit the science of global warming, and to halt policy agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol.

04.07.2005 The Ministry of Environmental Protection, Spatial Planning and Construction held, on June 28, a working meeting with the representatives of urban planning bureaus of the seven coastal Districts and companies that work on the preparation of municipal and city urban plans in the protected coastal areas.