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• Victims of Bhopal gas tragedy demand arrest of Warren Anderson

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Bhopal, Nov 29(ANI): The survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy staged a protest in Bhopal on Sunday and burned effigies of Warren Anderson, Chairman of the Union Carbide when the disaster took place in 1984, demanding his arrest. With a few days to go for the 25 anniversary of the gas tragedy, the victims [...]
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• Survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy launch weeklong protest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Bhopal, Nov.28 (ANI): Ahead of 25th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, survivors of the tragedy have launched a week-long protest to vent their ire against the inaction of the State government to remove the toxic waste from the vicinity of Union Carbide’s plant where the gas leak took place.The survivors of the ...
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• Court allows government to open Union Carbide factory to public

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Bhopal, Nov 25 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court Wednesday permitted the state government to open the defunct Union Carbide factory here to the public, 25 years after the lethal gas release from it killed and maimed for life thousands of people on the intervening night of December 2-3, 1984.The government had moved ...
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• THREE INDIE-HORROR FILMS EACH GET A NO SKULL RATING: SATANIC PANIC-MIDNIGHT MOVIE-LATE FEE

  
  NECROTIC CINEMA — Authority: 104
   I have been away from Necrotic Cinema for a while due to technical issues and am but for the time being and need to make up for lost time. I have quite a few films I have I seen that needs commenting on and in particular the hillbilly-mutant family trilogy Wrong Turn and Jennifer’s Body. But before getting into ...
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• Ecuadors Amazonians sue Chevron over poison waterways

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Tens of thousands of Ecuadoreans living in the Amazon rainforest are suing Chevron the US oil company for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental lawsuits in history.
  2 weeks ago

• Troops sue KBR over toxic waste in Iraq, Afghanistan

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 530
  Kellogg Brown and Root and its former parent company Halliburton, which at one time was led by former vice president Dick Cheney, had a government contract to destroy waste at US bases and camps in Iraq and Afghanistan.   »  noticia original
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• Thank You for Vacationing in North Dakota

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 421
  Hazardous Waste Site Map: Posted in Life Tagged: America the Beautiful, Hazardous Waste, Toxic waste, Waste not want not
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• Bhopal Disaster Site Opened for Publicity Stunt

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 541
  A little under 25 years ago, before midnight on December 2nd 1984, a major venting of lethal methyl isocyanate occurred at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Thousands were killed, and toxic waste continues to contaminate the local water supply to this day. To mark the anniversary and to "dispel ...
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• Digital Dumping and the Global ‘E-Cycling’ Scam

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 703
  By Gbemisola Olujobi The port of Lagos in Nigeria receives about 400,000 used computers every month, out of which only one in four is useful. The rest end up in landfills, garbage dumps and, in a curious twist, as resources for scammers. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 6, 2009 Dems Make ...
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• Coke going colorless: How could a naked can help the planet?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  Designer Harc Lee has some innovative and cool ideas when it comes to saving the planet and making that small contribution towards a future that could eventually make a world’s difference. One of the simplest and most attractive ideas that he has come up with is to profess the usage of softdrink cans in a ...
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• The coming natural gas boom is not all its fracced up to be

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 795
  Filed under: Energy Please pardon my poor punning, and let me explain: "Fraccing" (rhymes with "cracking") is the oil and natural gas industrys an informal contraction for the technology called hydraulic fracturing , in which water (and in some cases, a chemical mixture) is pumped deep underground to fracture ...
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• Ivory Coast: Toxic Waste Payout Blocked

  
  AfricanLoft — Authority: 124
  Thousands of victims of a toxic sludge dumping scandal could fail to receive their share of a 45 million dollar compensation package due to corruption in Ivory Coast, a British lawyer claims. Tens of thousands of people fell ill after a contractor for Dutch oil trader Trafigura dumped 500 tonnes of toxic waste in ...
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• Phosphate mining continues a toxic tradition

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 575
  If Simplot goes ahead with plans for a phosphate mine in southeast Idaho, the Stewart familys long ranching lifestyle will never be the same.
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• will i get an economic stimulus package in may?

  
  Financial Planning — Authority: 137
  I’m 23, a student, and have filed a return this year with the fed. government. My parents claim me as a dependent still and I was wondering if I should expect to get a refund from the economic stimulus pack or not. I would imagine I don’t qualify.Related ArticlesEconomic stimulus money could breathe [...]
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• Shipwreck - an ecological disaster for southern Madagascar

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 425
  Faux Cap, Madagascar – Toxic waste from a ship which went down off the coast in southern Madagascar in August has had severe impacts on the health of local people and on the rich coastal and marine environment, according to a study supported by WWF.The Turkish vessel Gulser Ana grounded near Faux Cap in the [...]
  4 weeks ago

• EPA to Regulate Mercury Emissions, May Tag Coal Ash ‘Toxic’

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 615
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering labeling coal ash as toxic waste, while the agency moves to regulate mercury emissions at coal-fired power plants.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a 230-page report on coal ash that comes 10 months after a spill of 1.1 billion ...
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• Annoy your neighbors, get rich on residuals

  
  For What It's Worth — Authority: 157
  Yes, we have no bananas Freddy Durante, he of the proposed cellphone tower overlooking North Mianus School, has once again slashed the price of his house at 334 Palmer Hill and it’s down to $923,000 from an original asking price of $1.3 million.  No mention on the listing whether Verizon is still willing to ...
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• Chinas Pollution in Photos

  
  ECO-CAN News — Authority: 136
  Need I say more… http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/  
  4 weeks ago

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