|
Support nonprofit, independent environmental journalism.
|
|
 Stories About: China AND news AND toxics AND water pollution
| Headline |
Author |
Published |
Section |
Torch Songhua
China chemical-spill crisis eases, but water's still not safe to drink |
|
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 ... |
|
| Topics: China, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
|
|
|
|
©2008. Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Gloom and doom with a sense of humor®.