Article: Cote d'Ivoire to compensate toxic waste victims

Article: Toxic waste dumping query
The Malay Mail;  July 8, 2004 ;     307 words ......saddled with some 12,000 metric tons of toxic waste imported into the country by a local...Resources and Environment had conceeded that toxic waste had been brought into the country. The...revealed that 386 containers contained toxic waste and of this, 223 were found at the Pasir...

Article: Vic: Liberals say they won't build a toxic waste dump in state
AAP General News (Australia);  August 11, 2006 ;     222 words ......Vic: Liberals say they won't build a toxic waste dump in state MELBOURNE, Aug 11 AAP...Liberal Party has promised not to build a toxic waste dump in Victoria if it wins the state...individuals to find ways to minimise their toxic waste. "The Liberal Party has no plans for...

Article: Probe into toxic waste hits snag
New Straits Times;  July 15, 2004 ;     439 words ......Straits Times 07-15-2004 Probe into toxic waste hits snag Byline: All reports on "Dewan...into the import of 12,000 tonnes of toxic waste from Taiwan discovered in Johor recently...Cross-Border Movement and Disposal of Toxic Waste 1980. Signatories to the agreement are...

Article: Berkeley silversmith jailed on toxic waste charges
Oakland Tribune;  October 11, 2007 ;     611 words ......month in jail on a charge of violating toxic waste laws is encouraging news for city and...for violating felony probation from a toxic waste dumping conviction in 2003. That conviction...though he admits he was guilty of putting toxic waste, such as acid and heavy metals, directly...

Article: Jail for dumping toxic waste
New Straits Times;  December 22, 2006 ;     498 words ......Straits Times 12-22-2006 Jail for dumping toxic waste Byline: Farrah Naz Karim Edition: Main...Main Section PUTRAJAYA: People who dump toxic waste illegally will be given mandatory jail...officers of companies that produce the toxic waste, the waste disposal companies, lorry...

Article: TOXIC WASTE BILL VETO THREATENS GREAT LAKES.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  September 9, 2007 ;     241 words ......bill that would have prohibited new toxic waste landfills in New York if they have potential...last report, 73 percent of PCBs and toxic waste buried in New York's Great Lakes system...would suffer, with higher costs to ship toxic waste out-of-state, even though we already...

Article: VOA NEWS: ENVIRONMENTALISTS BLAST IVORIAN TOXIC WASTE COURT CASE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 23, 2008 ;     469 words ......two men to prison terms for dumping toxic waste that killed 17 people two years ago...sentences handed down in the Ivorian toxic waste case. But they say justice has not been...fish that actually decided to dump the toxic waste, is not part of the criminal prosecution...

Article: Relocate firms dumping toxic waste
New Straits Times;  December 17, 2003 ;     98 words ......12-17-2003 Relocate firms dumping toxic waste Byline: M. Ganeshadeva Edition...I REFER to "Punish dumpers of toxic waste severely" (NST, Dec 15). I agree with the writer that the dumping of toxic waste should not be tolerated as it...

Article: Review of toxic waste disposal procedures
New Straits Times;  July 8, 2004 ;     256 words ...New Straits Times 07-08-2004 Review of toxic waste disposal procedures Edition: Main/Lifestyle...Rakyat. THE procedures in disposing toxic waste, including those brought in illegally...airports, would also be educated on toxic waste. "The training for these officers will...

Article: UN probe team finds no toxic waste along coastal Somalia
Xinhua News Agency;  October 7, 2005 ;     493 words ...UN probe team finds no toxic waste along coastal Somalia NAIROBI...Somalia has found no traces of toxic waste along the shorelines of the shattered...Somali government officials that toxic waste washed onto Somali's coastline...

Article: EPA's Browner claims progress in cleanup of Superfund sites. (Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner cites faster removal of toxic waste)
Chemical Market Reporter;  November 11, 1996 ;     700+ words ......the cleanup of the nation's worst toxic waste sites. In the 1992 fiscal year, EPA set a goal of 395 toxic waste cleanup or construction completions...waiting too many years to have their toxic waste sites cleaned up, Ms. Browner told...

Article: India's High Court Bans Import of Toxic Waste
Xinhua English Newswire;  April 11, 1996 ;     186 words ......court has banned the import of toxic waste into the country and directed...government to state whether import of toxic waste was allowed in the past. While...Singh said here on Wednesday that toxic waste was hazardous to public life...

Article: US toxic waste sails to Pacific.
United Press International;  May 15, 2000 ;     190 words ......UPI) A U.S. cargo ship loaded with toxic waste, including about 100 tons of polychlorinated...March 23 after being loaded with the toxic waste from a U.S. Army supply depot in Sagamihara...measures regarding the U.S. military toxic waste because the country's waste disposal...

Article: Killing Me Softly: Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Stuggle for Environmental Justice.(Book Review)
Rural Society;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......amp; Smith, J 2002, Killing me softly: Toxic waste, corporate profit, and the stuggle for...paperback. The political economy of toxic waste offers examples of the ways in which...book outlines the political economy of toxic waste disposal and describes the resistance...