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Solar-panel manufacturers dumping toxic waste in China |
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10 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:54 PM on 10 Mar 2008 Solar panels may look bright and shiny, but they have a dark underbelly: production of polysilicon for panels gives off a highly toxic byproduct called silicon tetrachloride. In China, where factories are rushing to alleviate a polysilicon shortage that's cramping the global solar-panel industry, the bubbly white liquid is often just dumped in nearby villages. "The land where yo ... |
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| Topics: business, China, energy, news, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, toxics (all these topics) |
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A Batt Out of Hell
Mattel, Toys |
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19 Feb 2008 |
News |
| "R" Us to phase out cadmium batteries, citing toxicity Posted at 6:49 AM on 19 Feb 2008 Toy giants Mattel and Toys "R" Us have announced they will phase out cadmium batteries due to their toxicity and the associated health problems they can cause at the factories in China that produce them. Scores of factory workers have been sickened by cadmium, which can cause lung cancer, bone disease, and kidney failure, but cadmium batteries are still use ... |
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| Topics: business, China, news, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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Scent From Above
Professional noses sniff out pollutants in China |
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21 Jun 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Scent From Above Professional noses sniff out pollutants in China Got a sensitive schnoz? Your services may be needed in southern China, where air-pollution experts at an environmental monitoring station are training the sharp-nosed to sniff out chemicals in the air. "We have honed our smelling skills from various sources of pollution. It will help in the detection efforts of our bureau, and, hopefully, b ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, China, funnies, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Huanhe or Another
China adds two more industrial accidents to the ledger |
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02 Nov 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Huanhe or Another China adds two more industrial accidents to the ledger If it's Thursday, it must be time for a story about an industrial accident in China. And while we're at it, why not go for two? An ammonia leak at a fertilizer factory south of Beijing yesterday killed one worker, sickened six residents, and caused the evacuation of 20,000 people from their homes. Firefighters sprayed the area to fight the fumes, a creative soluti ... |
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| Topics: China, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World
Chemical-laden products banned by other nations are sold throughout the U.S. |
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10 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Keep on Hawkin' in the Free World Chemical-laden products banned by other nations are sold throughout the U.S. To protect their citizens from dangerous chemicals, the European Union, Japan, and other nations have tightened their environmental standards for hundreds of manufactured products in recent years. Meanwhile, the U.S. EPA hasn't restricted any industrial compounds since an unsuccessful attempt ... |
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| Topics: China, European Union, Japan, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Pulp Non-Fiction
Lax enforcement allows toxic sludge to overrun Chinese village |
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05 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Pulp Non-Fiction Lax enforcement allows toxic sludge to overrun Chinese village Here's China's environmental situation in a nutshell: In 2004, after a toxic spill into the Yellow River, two Chinese paper mills were fined $300,000 and ordered to install water-recycling and treatment equipment. They didn't. Instead, city officials built temporary wastewater containment pools beside the river. An environmental official orde ... |
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| Topics: China, news, toxics, Yellow River (all these topics) |
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Wrong as Rain
Acid rain and dirty air bedevil China and Hong Kong |
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28 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Wrong as Rain Acid rain and dirty air bedevil China and Hong Kong One-third of China's landmass was hit with acid rain last year, according to a government report, posing a grave threat to soil health and food safety. Fast-growing China is the world leader in acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide emissions, which rose 27 percent in the country from 2000 to 2005; coal-burning factories and power plants are largely to blame. B ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, China, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Hu's Fine Is It, Anyway?
China considers fining media outlets for disaster reporting |
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24 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hu's Fine Is It, Anyway? China considers fining media outlets for disaster reporting Advancing their reputation as fun-loving goofballs, Chinese officials are considering a new law that would allow local governments to fine media outlets up to $12,500 for reporting on environmental disasters and other emergencies without permission or in a way that "causes serious consequences." Officials have been embarras ... |
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| Topics: China, land degradation, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Songhua Remains the Same
Pollution from November spill in China still taints downstream waterways |
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01 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Songhua Remains the Same Pollution from November spill in China still taints downstream waterways Months after a factory explosion in China dumped benzene and other chemicals into the Songhua River, thawing ice is releasing a second wave of toxins into downstream waterways near Khabarovsk, Russia. More than half a million residents of the city have been advised not to drink their strongly chemical-s ... |
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| Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, Russia, toxics (all these topics) |
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You Be Spillin'
China faces two more toxic river crises |
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10 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| You Be Spillin' China faces two more toxic river crises Two new toxic spills have hit rivers in central China. Last week, cadmium seeped out of silt dredged in a cleanup effort on the industrialized Xiangjiang River, contaminating a 60-odd mile stretch of the waterway, and a broken pipe at a power plant dumped six tons of diesel fuel into a tributary of the Yellow River. Chinese officials are down ... |
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| Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Yellow River (all these topics) |
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Fry Me a River
China's benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia |
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07 Dec 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Fry Me a River China's benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia China's latest claim to international infamy -- a Songhua River-borne, 100-ton, 90-odd-mile-long benzene spill -- is expected to reach the Russian city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur River, next week. Conservationists in the region worry that the toxic slick will further imperil the extremely endangered Siberian tiger, whic ... |
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| Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, Russia, toxics (all these topics) |
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Torch Songhua
China chemical-spill crisis eases, but water's still not safe to drink |
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28 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Torch Songhua China chemical-spill crisis eases, but water's still not safe to drink As Americans gorged on turkey and pumpkin pie, a 50-mile-long toxic chemical spill was flowing along the Songhua River through northern China -- the worst environmental disaster in the nation's recent history. The crisis began on Nov. 13, when two explosions at a state-owned petrochemical plant in Jilin killed five workers, injured 70 ... |
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| Topics: China, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Mad in China
Chinese villagers riot to keep polluting pharmaceutical plant closed |
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19 Jul 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Mad in China Chinese villagers riot to keep polluting pharmaceutical plant closed Thousands of Chinese protestors battled police for hours on Sunday night in an effort to stop a polluting plant from resuming operations. Villagers in Xinchang, China, 180 miles south of Shanghai, say corrupt local officials have refused to do anything about chemical wastes from the Jingxin Pharmaceutical Co. that have ruined crops, ... |
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| Topics: China, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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