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INDIA: Community monitoring building body of evidence of pollution
Led by GCM's regional trainer, Shweta Narayan, industrial communities in India are building their capacity to monitor for pollution and gather evidence to win change.

INDIA: Environmental monitors raise concerns over threat of planned industrial facilities to marine life
GCM's partners in India are raising concerns over lack of enforcement of a recently issued moratorium and worry that industry's renegade attitude could possibly do irreparable damage to the marine ecosystem.

INDIA: National ban on industrial expansion for country's most polluted regions
GCM's partner organization, SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors (SACEM), has welcomed The Central Pollution Control Board's decision to temporarily restrict new industrial projects in Cuddalore.

INDIA: Chemical Park increases cancer risk in Cuddalore - Study Confirms Bucket Brigade results!
People living in and around a special economic zone in Cuddalore are “2,000 times more” likely to be affected by cancer than the normal population, says a report prepared for the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board.The TNPCB commissioned the NEERI study in response to a 2004 report “Gas Trouble”, released by the SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors, highlighting the presence of at least 22 toxic gases in the air over SIPCOT.

INDIA: Bhopal's survivors set off on an arduous 800km walk to Delhi to assert their basic, fundamental rights to justice and a life of dignity and health.
When they finally reach Delhi, Bhopali victims of Dow & Union Carbide will remind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that promises he made two years ago concerning economic, social and medical rehabilitation, and provision of clean drinking water, are yet to be met.

International Bucket Brigade Conference in New Delhi, India: Delegates Gather from Around the Globe to Exchange Success and Challenges
The first International Bucket Brigade Conference was held in New Delhi, India on February 16-19, 2008. Delegates from across India, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America gathered to share their successes and challenges in using environmental monitoring strategies to win environmental justice.

Tales of the Toxic Tourists: Breathing Poison for a reason!
Report of real rime air monitor patrol in SIPCOT Cuddalore conducted by SACEM, CEM, GCM and Argos Scientific on February 12, 2008.

Chennai's Poison Air: Real Time Monitor Tells Toxic Truth!
Global Community Monitor, India Community Environmental Monitor and Argos Scientific have brought a real time air monitor to Chennai, the so-called "IT" Capitol of the world. But as this TV news story reveals, pollution monitoring and control are still in the stone age.

INDIA: Gas leak again; case registered against refinery - Agency Claims Toxic Gases are "safe"
Community Environmental Monitoring calls gases that leaked on 4-5 December from CPCL are likely to be poisonous hydrocarbons with serious long-term implications on health.

Tamil Nadu - Cuddalore: Power project will displace 3,000 families, says CPI leader
No plan to provide them with alternative accommodation and means of livelihood - Pollution Control Board did not conduct a proper assessment of environment impact

Villagers from Mettur's Pollution Impacted Area Demand Immediate Action at TNPCB
Chennai 15 November 2007: 100 agitated people from Mettur assembled at the Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board at Guindy today to present a copy of a report, 'Unfolding Diasater - A Study of Chemplast Sanmar's toxic contamination in Mettur' and demanded that the TNPCB take the required action to control pollution in the area.

New Report, INDIA: Mettur Critically Polluted: Dioxins, mercury found in samples
Mettur's environment is contaminated with dioxins, furans and 52 other toxic chemicals, including mercury, according to a report titled "Unfolding Disaster: A Study of Chemplast's Toxic Contamination in Mettur" released by Chennai-based Community Environmental Monitoring.

Tamil Nadu - Cuddalore: Concern over pollution in Cuddalore
A joint meeting of environmentalists, lawyers, scientists, consumer activists and a section of the pollution-affected people held here recently voiced concern over the pollution problem in Cuddalore which, according to them, had already reached the saturation point.

Tamil Nadu - Cuddalore: Villagers stage demonstration against private power project
The people of at least 20 villages led by T.Velmurugan, MLA and deputy general secretary of the Pattali Makkal Katchi, staged a demonstration in front of the Collectorate here on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu - Cuddalore: Villagers unanimously reject power project: AIADMK team:
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MLAs A. Arunmozhithevan and Selvi Ramajayam, along with party functionaries, conducted a study in the villages “where the people are facing the threat of eviction on account of the proposed private power project.”

Political Party PMK wants withdrawal of permission for Tamil Nadu power project
CUDDALORE: PMK leader Ramadoss on Sunday asked the Tamil Nadu government to withdraw the permission granted to a private company to set up a 1320 mega watt power project at Nochikadu near Cuddalore by acquiring agricultural lands.

INDIA: Tamil Nadu - Cuddalore: Power project: environmentalists, rights activists to form panel
Environmental and rights activists have decided to form an expert committee to go into the issues relating to the proposed 1320-MW private power project to be set up in the Thiagavalli-Kudikadu coastal region here.

Villagers attempt to attack Cuddalore Collector
Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, Sep 7: About 1,500 agitated villagers of Tegavalli, near here, today attempted to attack Cuddalore district Collector Rajendra Rathnoo at a meeting convened to elicit public opinion regarding the proposed 1,320 MW hydro-electric power plant in the district.

High Court Case Filed to make SIPCOT keep safety norms
A peoples' welfare association has moved the Madras High Court for a direction to the authorities concerned to ensure that industries located at the SIPCOT chemical complex at Cuddalore maintained safe levels of air quality and toxic chemicals.

INDIA: SIPCOT Residents Continue to Breathe Toxic Cocktail
SIPCOT Residents Continue to Breathe Toxic Cocktail; TNPCB action to curb air pollution ineffective

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