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The Good Stuff — Episode 10:
The Good Stuff
April 24th, 2013
The People Have the Power Protecting our health from toxic pollution is too important a job to be left to scientists, govenment regulators or even professional environmental activists.

Sterlite Industries' copper smelter ignites toxic debate
by Anupama ChandrasekaranReuters
April 9th, 2013
Neighbours of copper smelter in India, find themselves running out of their houses in panic, coughing hard and struggling to breathe.

INDIA: Sterlite Copper Closed
March 30th, 2013
The Tamil Nadu Government has relented to public pressure and shut down Sterlite Industries' copper complex today.

India, Chevron and monitoring pollution after toxic disasters
by Tyler OrsburnRichmond Confidential
March 25th, 2013
Shweta Narayan, one of India’s leading environmentalists, paid the Bay Area a visit last week and presented information about the importance of environmental monitoring when it comes to toxic disasters.

Noxious gas triggers scare in Thoothukudi
by YazhiniyanThe New Indian Express
March 24th, 2013
A suspected leak of noxious gas from the Sterlite Industries plant in Thoothukudi caused nausea and skin irritation among a section of local residents.

Wasted Lives: A panel discussion on the impact of industrial pollution and waste on vulnerable communities
March 24th, 2013
Milpitas Library located 160 N. Main St., Milpitas, CA 95035 at 3:30pm Sunday, March 24th

Three events in 3 days with India's leading Women Anti-Pollution Warriors in SF and Oakland: March 19, 20, 21
Join us for a series of events with one of India's leading Women Anti-Pollution Warriors: Shweta Narayan, India Community Environmental Monitoring

Kids fight against mercury dump
by Tamil NaduDeccan Chronicle
March 16th, 2013
Twenty-five school children are demanding that the government take steps and excavate the soil polluted with mercury dumped in nearby forests by an MNC 12 years ago.

Inhaling poison around major dumpyards
by Sruthisagar Yamunan and Yogesh KabirdossNew India Express
October 29th, 2012
In May this year, Masilamani (41), a resident of a housing board colony bang opposite the Kodungiyur dumpyard, woke up with violent coughs and breathlessness.

Gang threatens activists, farmers near Mettur
by Special CorrespondentThe Hindu
August 17th, 2012
A gang on Wednesday allegedly threatened and abused a group of activists and farmers campaigning against chemical industries causing pollution in the Cauvery, in hamlets around Gonur village at Mettur.

India: Landmark Judgement for Environmental Justice
May 5th, 2012
Him Parivesh Environment Protection Society, one of the petitioners in the writ petition against Jaiprakash Associates Limited which led to the historical judgement passed by the Green Bench on 4th May 2012, organised a press conference today at Nalagarh.

CUDDALORE: One cancer case a day in TN's Cuddalore district
by K EzhilarasanExpress News Service
January 25th, 2012
Doctors practising in different parts of Cuddalore district see a steep increase in the incidence of cancer in the district as compared with the number of cases recorded five years ago.

INDIA: International Conference Spreads the Power of the Buckets
September 2nd, 2011
More than 50 participants attended the Campaigner Training workshop in India to gather powerful information in the fight for clean air.

INDIA: Concern over chemical storage in shut down unit
The Indu
August 4th, 2011
Workers, social activists and environmentalists have voiced concern over the safety of the “idle storage of ammonium and chloroform in two tanks” in the recently shut down SPIC Pharma unit located on the SIPCOT Industrial Estate here.

CHENNAI: Jairam out of sync with his ministry’s line
by Gokul ChandrasekarExpressbuzz.com
May 5th, 2011
Responding to an Express article titled “TNPCB fudged data to push for moratorium lift in Cuddalore”, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that the Cuddalore moratorium was lifted solely based on an action plan submitted to the ministry by the TNPCB.

INDIA: TNPCB fudged data to push for moratorium lift
by Gokul ChandrasekarExpress News Service
April 30th, 2011
In a bid to accelerate the lifting of moratorium imposed on new industries in Cuddalore by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) presented fraudulent data to the Centre, according to a report.

INDIA: Pollution monitoring infrastructure inadequate
by RAJESH RANGARAJAN & SIVAPRADHA C.R.The Indu
April 21st, 2011
The India Pollution Map has tracked the government pollution monitoring regime and has mapped aspects of air and water quality through an online mapping tool.

INDIA: 300 Hospitalised after Chlorine Gas Leak in Pondicherry
Indo-Asian News Service
At least 300 people living near Chemfab Alkalis Limited's plant in Pondicherry were hospitalised on Wednesday after a chlorine gas leak from the factory affected them, an official said.

INDIA: Residents Turn Their Ire Against Oil Firm
by Special CorrespondentThe Indu
December 22nd, 2010
In a road accident involving two private vans, four girl students were killed and 31 others injured at Semmanguppam near the SIPCOT Industrial Estate here on Monday.

INDIA: Environment Ministry to Continue Moratorium in 3 out of 4 Critically Polluted Areas in Tamil Nadu
October 28th, 2010
Chennai 28 October 2010: The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) has decided to continue its moratorium on setting up of new industries in the 3 out of 4 critically polluted industrial clusters of Tamil Nadu till March 2011.

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