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| Hallan tóxico cancerígeno en la región
by Tere Carrasco, Diario del Istmo
February 20th, 2007
High concentrations of benzene were detected in Minatitlán and New World, after community monitoring done by the Association of Ecological Producers Taxteco (Apetac). Article in Spanish. |
| FIRST AIR TEST FOR TOXIC CONTAMINATION IN MEXICO SHOWS DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN EVERY BREATH TAKEN BY PEMEX NEIGHBORS
Global Community Monitor
April 13th, 2006
A sample of the air breathed daily under 'low' pollution conditions in neighborhoods around a PEMEX refinery has revealed for the first time ever in Mexico that dangerous levels of toxic chemicals are endangering the health of thousands of people. For the first time in Mexico, independent tests by PEMEX watchdog group APETAC and the international group Global Community Monitor, have supplied real evidence offsite of serious toxic exposure from petrochemical operations. |
| Testing their own air
by Dina Cappiello, Houston Chronicle
March 6th, 2006
Air monitoring? Scant. Pollutions laws? Weak. In the shadow of one oil refinery, The 'Bucket Brigade' is measuring for the first time what resident are breathing |
| Experts from the United States Monitor Contamination
by Graciela Gomez Guerrero, El Liberal del Sur
February 9th, 2006
It is the industries duty to be cleaner, and the duty of the government to establish a regulatory framework with standards set at a level that has been verified to have no impact on the population. The system should focus on reduction of raw materials into the atmosphere. |
| Epidemiological Study Begins
February 3rd, 2006
In New World congregation, a census of the population is underway. The census is being conducted in order to know the chemical, physical, mechanical and psychosocial agents in relation to industrial enterprises, among them Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), that contaminate the environment. |
| MEXICO'S GIANT POLLUTER: Will Privitization Force Pemex to Clean Up Its Act?
by Joel Simon
This month Mexico's giant state-owned oil company, Pemex, is Privatizing the first of dozens of plants in a region that some environmentalists view as a potential Love Canal. Concern is mounting that Pemex will simply use the sale to hand over an environmental time bomb before it explodes. PNS associate editor Joel Simon's book "Bordering on Destruction: Exploring Mexico's Environmental Crisis," will be Published by Sierra Club Books next year. |
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