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WHO Regional Workshop on Chemical Safety
24 - 26th June 2013
The International Workshop to Strengthen Capacities for Sound Chemicals Management in South-East Asia Region
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8026. June 8, 2010 | The Nation
Dozens made sick by chlorine leak, Thailand
Yesterday's chlorine leak at a factory in the Hemaraj Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate left more than 100 people sick, 18 of them critically... 8027. June 8, 2010 | China Daily
Union Carbide officials convicted, India
BHOPAL, India - A court on Monday found the Indian unit of US chemical firm Union Carbide and seven Indian former employees guilty of negligence over one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands in 1984... 8028. June 8, 2010 | Agence France-Presse (AFP)
10 years needed to seal climate cuts: UN, France
THE world community may need another 10 years to agree on carbon cuts deep enough to roll back global warming, the UN's pointman for climate change warned yesterday... 8029. June 8, 2010 | The Associated Press (AP)
Seven convicted over Bhopal gas tragedy, India
AN INDIAN court yesterday convicted seven former senior employees of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary of "death by negligence" for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy that left an estimated 15,000 people dead more than a quarter century ago in the world's worst industrial disaster... 8030. June 8, 2010 | The Daily Star
Ban storage of chemicals in residential areas of city, Bangladesh
Environmentalists and chemical experts yesterday urged the government to impose ban on producing, marketing and storing flammable chemicals in residential areas of the capital so that tragedies like Nimtoli are not repeated... 8031. June 8, 2010 | The Daily Star
Old Dhaka at chemical risk, Bangladesh
Thousands of Old Dhaka residents live close to grave danger as many warehouses store inflammable substances and industries use these in residential areas in violation of environmental rules... 8032. June 8, 2010 | Greenpeace Intyernational
A toxic river runs through it, Greenpeace
Russian waters are being poisoned by hazardous substances that sometimes exceed hundreds of times the safe limit as set by authorities. This was the finding of an historic ship tour as the Greenpeace flag sailed into Moscow for the very first time to raise awareness of the impact of industrial pollution on the rivers of Russia... 8033. June 8, 2010 | KKTV
Toxic Clean-Up Act Signed, Uranium Mills Put On Notice, USA
Tuesday, Governor Ritter signed into law the Uranium Processing Accountability Act, on the banks of the Arkansas River in Canon City... 8034. June 8, 2010 | Gulf-Times
Dhaka targets dangerous high-rises, chemical stores, Bangladesh
Bangladesh launched a crackdown yesterday on shoddy buildings and illegal chemical factories in residential areas after an apartment block collapse and huge fire that killed almost 150, officials said... 8035. June 8, 2010 | The New York Times
8 Former Executives Guilty in '84 Bhopal Chemical Leak, India
NEW DELHI -- More than 25 years after a plume of fatal toxic gas from an American-owned chemical plant wafted over the slumbering city of Bhopal, eight former executives of the company's Indian subsidiary -- including one who has since died -- were convicted Monday of negligence... 8036. June 8, 2010 | NewsOK.com
Woodward plant worker burned in chemical fire, USA
WOODWARD — A worker suffered burns and smoke inhalation in a fire at a chemical plant this morning, authorities said... 8037. June 7, 2010 | The Telegraph
Toxic water that none cleans, India
New Delhi, In 2003, when activists campaigning against Dow Chemicals, which now owns Union Carbide, delivered 250 gallons of water from Bhopal’s contaminated wells at the firm’s Houston office, a hazardous chemicals team wearing protection suits removed the water... 8038. June 7, 2010 | Disinformation
Russia’s Scientists: Toxic Rain From Oil Spill Will Ravage America, Russia
Russia’s top scientists have informed their president that they expect toxic rain from the Gulf oil spill to destroy the eastern coast of the United States. They also believe that BP’s use of a chemical dispersal agent at the spill site is hiding just how bad the spill really is. Er, here’s hoping they’re wrong?... 8039. June 7, 2010 | The Huffington Post
Methyl Iodide Controversy: Warning About Strawberry Field Chemical Ignored, USA
California pesticide regulators plan to approve a new agricultural chemical called methyl iodide for the state's coastal strawberry fields, allowing levels of exposure that the state's own experts say will put farmworkers and bystanders at risk... 8040. June 7, 2010 | Water Technology Online
Chemical engineer uses nanoparticles to purify water, USA
HOUSTON — Michael Wong, Ph.D., a chemical engineer at Rice University, has developed a method to use nanoparticles to purify water, according to sciencedaily.com... 8041. June 7, 2010 | AlterNet
Outrage as PG&E Plans to Spray Clouds With Toxic Chemical to Increase Rainfall, USA
After a successful six-year campaign to prevent Nestle Waters from building a bottling plant in nearby McCloud, the town of Mt. Shasta, a mountain hamlet of fewer than 3000 residents in California's far-northern Siskiyou County, is taking up a new struggle: to prevent PG&E from seeding the region's clouds... 8042. June 7, 2010 | Independent Online
Toxic waste made in Malta: Dutch prosecutors argue Trafigura knew of toxic cargo as trial begins, Malta
Dutch prosecutors accused Trafigura AG of putting profits ahead of safety at the start of the company’s criminal trial on Tuesday, saying the oil trader hid hazardous waste in a ship that docked in Amsterdam in 2006 and then exported it illegally... 8043. June 6, 2010 | The Daily Star
Nimtoli reels from shock, Bangladesh
The Old Dhaka neighbourhoods, where the deadliest blaze in recent memory claimed 117 lives on Thursday, are still numb with grief for the dear ones lost. 8044. June 6, 2010 | Bloomberg
Toxic Undersea Oil Plumes Lurk in Gulf of Mexico (Update2), Mexico
Undersea clouds of oil that kill marine life have spread for miles in the Gulf of Mexico from BP Plc’s leaking Macondo well, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today... 8045. June 6, 2010 | NZPA
Chemical, radioactive concerns after school fire, New Zealand
Firefighters are being decontaminated after concerns about the spread of radioactive material and chemicals from a large fire at Kerikeri High School at 4.30am... 8046. June 6, 2010 | Express News Service
CHEMREC will help mitigate chemical disasters, India
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Chemical Emergency Response Centre (CHEMREC), to be inaugurated at Kakkanad in Ernakulam on June 7, will be a major step in mitigating the chemical disasters in the state... 8047. June 6, 2010 | Oldham Advertiser
Chemical leak causes supermarket to shut, UK
A supermarket was evacuated after chemicals left in the boot of a shopper's car corroded through a container in the heat... 8048. June 6, 2010 | Manila Bulletin
Some plastic school materials highly toxic, says EcoWaste, Philippines
A waste and pollution watchdog advised Sunday the public to be wary of buying school supplies made of plastic after monitoring high levels of a hazardous organic compound as well as toxic chemicals in a number of them... 8049. June 6, 2010 | INQUIRER.net
No more tests; coal ash is non-toxic, DENR says, Philippines
THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) will no longer conduct new tests on coal ash in Naga City, after saying that samples it checked last year were non-toxic industrial wastes... 8050. June 6, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle
Bill would brake on bay's copper pollution, USA
Every time Bay Area drivers tap their car brakes, they pollute San Francisco Bay and harm one of Northern California's most threatened fish - salmon...
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