Full Coverage: Pollution

28.02.2006 Nearly 130 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster began a march on foot to New Delhi on 20 February 2006 to gain support for their battle for survival, justice and dignity. More than 22 years later, people affected by the world's worst industrial disaster are still fighting for their rights, compensation and justice.

26.02.2006 Is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turning a blind eye to top companies' poor emissions standards? Some of the companies being rewarded as "top environmental performers" are anything but, say a coalition of 29 environmental organizations.

26.02.2006 Tired of broken promises, survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster are marching 800 km to Delhi to call attention to the continuing toxic contamination of Bhopal, the absence of adequate healthcare, and other problems.

21.02.2006 The Ministry of Maritime, Tourism, Transport and Development completed the seminar on “Education of Hotels in Environmental Protection”, co-organized with the Croatian Centre for Clean Production and the Norwegian National Institution of Technology from Oslo.

17.02.2006 Workers at an Indian shipbreaking yard have announced they will hold demonstrations over the next few days and, if necessary, go on hunger strike in protest against French President Jacques Chirac's decision to recall the decommissioned aircraft carrier Clemenceau.

17.02.2006 The decision by French President Jacques Chirac to withdraw the asbestos-contaminated aircraft carrier Clemenceau from dismantling in India ends an embarrassing journey for the ship, and for the French government.

17.02.2006 In response to the French Government's decision to recall their warship, Le Clemenceau, to France, Greenpeace invited members of the Indian ship-breaking association to take advantage of the opportunity to transform the Indian ship-breaking industry to international standards in alignment with national and international law and respect for human rights and environment.

16.02.2006 Indian NGOs - Greenpeace, Corporate Accountability Desk - and trade unions welcomed President Jacque Chirac's decision to call back the decommissioned toxic aircraft carrier Clemenceau to France. The trade unions plan to organise the workers at the Alang ship-breaking yard on the west Indian coast of Gujarat.

16.02.2006 Indian trade unions, Corporate Accountability Desk-The Other Media, Ban Asbestos Network of India (BANI) today celebrated the recall of the French ship Clemenceau by the French Supreme Court. The Indian organisations came down heavily on the Ministry of Environment & Forests and the Indian Government for blatantly arguing for the violation of international and national laws by accepting the toxic-laden ship from France.

15.02.2006 The Delhi High Court summoned top officials of the Delhi government and its agencies - the Delhi Chief Secretary, Commissioner MCD and the CEO of the Delhi Jal Board - to appear before the court for their failure to check pollution of river Yamuna.

14.02.2006 Britain, a self-styled global leader in combating climate change, is set for a new legal showdown with the European commission over government plans to allow businesses to pump out more greenhouse gases under the EU's carbon emissions trading scheme.

13.02.2006 An opinion poll commissioned by Greenpeace and conducted by the Hansa Research Group has found that nearly 70 per cent of respondents want the Indian government to disallow decommissioned French war ship - Clemenceau - from entering Indian waters because of toxic wastes. Read the Greenpeace press release for more information.

13.02.2006 The Greenpeace-commissioned survey, conducted by HANSA research, on the public's perception of environmental pollution in India with special emphasis on the perception of the production, trade, use, and release of hazardous materials in India. Read the full report.

10.02.2006 With just two years left for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is struggling to live up to its pledge of hosting the 'green games' while also meeting the demands of its increasingly affluent residents and their consumerist ways.

10.02.2006 The clouds in China have been replaced by the smog, one that has made the country significantly darker than it was some 50 years ago. A team of researchers led by Yun Qian studied records from more than 500 weather stations across China between 1954 and 2001 and found that solar radiation has decreased by two per cent per decade since 1954.

09.02.2006 The Asian Development Bank is financing a $2 billion environmental improvement project in the Songhua River area of northeast China, which suffered serious contamination from a toxic chemical spill last November. A main component of the project, which is scheduled to begin in 2007, is providing support for water management and treatment.

08.02.2006 Serbian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management announced the start of the four-year “Reduction of Industrial Pollution of the Danube in Serbia” 22 million US Dollars project.

08.02.2006 Governments that invest in air pollution control measures can save billions of dollars as health care costs are slashed, worker productivity soars and ecosystems flourish, according to a report by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

08.02.2006 Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping the effects of creeping environmental deterioration, United Nations University experts say the international community urgently needs to define, recognize and extend support to this new category of ‘refugee’.

06.02.2006 from Green Car Congress:
You can try out the new buses on the route between Royal Albert Hall and Elephant and Castle. These Electrocity diesel-electric buses produce 30% less CO2 and less NOx than standard diesel buses.