Thirty years ago today, Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, released toxic gases that killed 3,787 people and injured over half a million, writes Vijay Prashad. The site is still contaminated, victims remain uncompensated, and the area suffers from a high rate of serious birth defects. Yet UC's CEO evaded justice, to die in a Florida nursing home this year at the age of 92.
… India USA Law Toxics Corporations bhopal-union_carbide_cut.jpg Thirty years ago today, Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, … West. He was just another CEO, the head of Union Carbide - now owned by Dow Chemicals. He …
More than half of UK oil workers would switch to work on renewable energy if given the opportunity to retrain, new survey shows.
… survey blasts a hole in the argument by trade union leaders that every last drop of oil must … Just Transition Commission, including trade union chiefs, that recently ran a … misused by politicians, was coined by trade union militants in the 1990s to define the …
India's farmers are the targets of structural violence aimed at uprooting indigenous agriculture and replacing it with an intensive corporate model based on GMOs and agrochemicals, writes Colin Todhunter. But as Monsanto's GM cotton succumbs to insect infestations despite repeated pesticide applications, agroecological farming is an increasingly attractive option for cultivators.
… its products, the US multinational company Union Carbide came out with a series of … where the helping hand of God, in this case Union Carbide, assisted the ignorant, backward … is shown toiling in the fields. The people at Union Carbide didn't do subtlety back then. We …
France's energy minister Ségolène Royal has backed union demands for the EDF's Hinkley C project in Somerset to be re-examined, write Angelique Chrisafis & Chris Johnston - adding that the project must not go ahead if it would 'dry out' funds needed for EDF's renewable energy program.
… energy minister Ségolène Royal has backed union demands for the EDF's Hinkley C project … so things should go ahead. But the trade unions are right to ask for the stakes to be … immediate decision, EDF's Force Ouvriere (FO) union this week threatened strike action if …
MPs say a carbon tax is needed to get the EU emissions trading scheme working
… emissions trading scheme working The European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS) is … Scheme HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE How credit unions can succeed where banks fail If you're … project, it's worth borrowing from a credit union instead of a bank INVESTIGATION All …
EDF's unfolding fiasco over the Hinkley C nuclear power station proves that nuclear power can come only at enormous financial cost to consumers and taxpayers, writes Caroline Lucas - and even then, investors are scared off by the risks. The government must get over its nuclear obsession and seize our renewable future.
… in and operate Hinkley Point) French trade unions spoke out about their concerns. When … be making a final investment decision, French unions threw a welcome spanner in the works. … the decision . But the concerns of French unions are worth a closer look . They include …
China has now overtaken the European Union as the largest new market for solar power, writes Paul Brown - as solar PV becomes one of the world's fastest growing industries - and one that's sure to keep on getting cheaper!
… China has now overtaken the European Union as the largest new market for solar … Report for 2014 , released by the European Union. The report, which assesses the state of … and Japan at $28.6billion." The European Union (EU) as a whole saw investments of …
The Aral Sea is a well known environmental disaster zone. But this year, it got a whole worse, writes Anson Mackay, as its biggest basin dried up completely to expose a toxic, salty wasteland. With continuing irrigation and declining river flows due to climate change, the desert is only set to expand.
… in the deserts of the western Soviet Union prevented water reaching the Aral Sea, … many plants and animals. During early Soviet Union times, the Aral Sea and its fringing … the original article . During early Soviet Union times, the Aral Sea and its fringing …
In the latest in his exclusive series examining ethical businesses, Peter Salisbury reports on the rise of the leading eco-electricity supplier - and hears how it all started with a cocktail
… clink and murmur of delegates at a European Union (EU) energy conference after-party, she … to invest in renewables to capitalise on the union’s plans to integrate and liberalise the …
A damning expert critique of the National Farmers Union's application to use banned bee-toxic neonicotinoid pesticide seed treatment on a third of England's oilseed rape crop this autumn has forced the UK government to refuse the NFU's demand.
… expert critique of the National Farmers Union's application to use banned bee-toxic … emergency application by the National Farmers Union (NFU) to use bee-harming 'neonic' seed …
The EU, nervous about disruption to gas supplies across an increasingly unstable Ukraine, is planning a European 'supergrid' linking all 28 member states to increase resilience, writes Paul Brown. The development will be a boon to renewable energy generation, and cut emissions from fossil fuels.
… is being planned to connect all 28 European Union countries and provide them with … supplies. It is part of a wider European Union policy to make the 28 states less …
A new wave of ‘next generation' GM crops resistant to multiple herbicides, may be approved for import into the European Union, writes Helen Wallace, even though the health impact of the herbicide combinations is unknown. Regulators and retailers must refuse to authorise these GMOs or allow their use in any part of the food chain.
… may be approved for import into the European Union, writes Helen Wallace, even though the … awaiting approval for import to the European Union, which is already heavily dependent on …
Deep space missions have previously run on nuclear power, writes Karl Grossman - and have twice showered Earth with radioactive debris. But the ESA's Rosetta probe, about to reach its destination, is 100% solar-powered - showing that space can be nuclear-free.
… For decades, the United States and the Soviet Union, and now Russia, stressed the use of … for the Cosmos-954 accident which the Soviet Union eventually paid - in part. ESA …
A second legal challenge to the UK's proposed Hinkley C nuclear power plant in Somerset was launched this morning by ten renewable and municipal power suppliers in Germany and Austria, citing grave distortions to European energy markets.
… with the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg against State Aid for the … before the Court of Justice of the European Union, is Dr Dörte Fouquet, an expert in …
Our thirst for the latest gadgets has created a vast empire of electronic waste, writes Ian Williams. The EU alone produces some 9 million tonnes of it a year, of which some 70% is still working when disposed of, and over a third is disposed of illegally. With increasingly affordable electronic devices available to ever more people, it's high time for effective global regulation.
… problem. A recent report by the European Union-funded Countering WEEE Illegal Trade … sound methods. In the European Union, this first appeared as the 2006 WEEE …
Dow's teratogenic pesticide chlorpyrifos is a human and environmental disaster, writes Janette D. Sherman. It causes serious, irreversible damage to the human foetus even at low concentrations that may be harmless to the mother, resulting in severely and permanently disabled and mentally damaged children. But it's still sprayed in vast quantities on America's farms.
… school, often blaming the teachers and their unions. Are teachers no longer competent to … of that year, and then worked at a credit union until her daughter was born in … If we blame poor teaching, and teachers' unions, but don't stop the use of …
Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, writes Julian Rose, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
… that wreaked such havoc in the Soviet Union. The backbone of the country's … changing under the influence of the European Union and Poland's own government, desperate …
An Emergency Ordinance comes into force in Germany today that extends the EU's ban on 'neonic' pesticides to protect bees. But the UK's farming minister Liz Truss has relaxed the ban to allow farmers to use neonics on 30,000 hectares of oilseed rape.
… an application by the National Farmers Union (NFU) to use neonic-dressed seeds this … back an application by the National Farmers Union to lift a ban on bee-harming chemicals. …
A six-month investigation finds that the revolving door between government and the chemical industry has led the EPA to rely on easily manipulated toxicology research carried out entirely on computers - and this 'in silico' science often trumps both biology and epidemiology when it comes to regulatory action, or lack of it. The result? Toxic substances remain in everyday products.
… They estimate that this costs the European Union healthcare system about $175 billion a … as a "probable human carcinogen." A number of unions, including United Auto Workers and … year, a toxic gas release at a West Virginia Union Carbide plant sent about 135 people to …
Ecologist writer Luke Dale-Harris questions the ability of Natura 2000 to work as an effective environmental regulator
… go on to form the backbone of the European Union. Emerging out of a continent torn apart … by decades of recession, peace was the Union’s founding principle, and economic …
The EU's decision to authorise a new 'neonic' pesticide knowing it was highly toxic to bees has been challenged in the European Court. A similar permit granted to sulfoxaflor in the US has already been struck down by a federal court.
… Coordination, the Italian National Beekeeping Union (UNAAPI), and PAN Europe, citing the … have urged EPA to follow the European Union's lead and suspend the huge numbers of …
They promote GMOs, defend toxic chemicals, and attack people who raise concerns about those products as 'anti-science'. But behind the slick 'astroturf' PR fronts lurk some very dubious funders: the same arch-conservative foundations that finance climate science denial. Stacy Malkan exposes the key players in the agribusiness and chemical industry propaganda wars.
… - for example, fights against public schools, unions, environmental protection, climate … Hansen, PhD, senior scientist at Consumers Union. "The message is that genetic …
Rice can often contain high levels of arsenic, writes Andy Meharg. But while levels of this highly toxic element are tightly regulated in water, the EU has set no limits for arsenic in food. This needs to change, fast - and until it does, be careful not to feed too much rice to babies and small children ...
… Asia. Further pronouncements by the European Union and the US Food and Drug Administration … inorganic arsenic than rice from the European Union or from the US. Cooking rice in a large …
Democratising energy would save thousands of lives a year in Britain alone - releasing us from the clutches of corporate utilities, and building an energy commons in which we are all owners and participants, no longer captive, exploited consumers. More than that, it would be a big step forward in saving the planet.
… supported from afar by dozens of trade unions and green groups, and on the spot by … 18 days. Alliances like this between labour unions and environmental movements can play a … workplace democracy, with workers and trade unions centrally involved in planning and …