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If Not Dow, When? Dow Chemical evades legal responsibility for chemical spill in India		10 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 10 Sep 2007 In 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were killed by the effects of a cyanide leak from a U.S.-owned pesticide plant. The plant owner, Union Carbide Corp., was bought by Dow Chemical in 2001; since then, Dow has evaded responsibility for cleaning up the more than 9,000 tons of chemicals still affecting soil and water near the site. The company has now offered to pay p ...
Topics: India, jackassery, news, toxics (all these topics)

Man, the Arctic is Hot Russia plants flag under North Pole, India launches its first Arctic expedition		03 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Man, the Arctic is Hot Russia plants flag under North Pole, India launches its first Arctic expedition Earlier this week, we reported that Russia was planning to stake a claim on the North Pole. Or, rather, the seabed deep underneath. Yesterday, two mini-submarines planted a titanium national flag on the sea floor, causing celebration in Moscow and consternation in Canada, which a ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, India, news, Russia, scientific research, United States (all these topics)

Second to Naan A worried India takes steps toward national climate plan		16 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Second to Naan A worried India takes steps toward national climate plan India -- home to more than a billion people and a fast-expanding economy -- is taking its first steps toward a climate-change plan. On Friday, at the kick-off meeting of the National Council on Climate Change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave a preview of a "Green India" strategy that will call for ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, news (all these topics)

That sinking feeling You ever have that nightmare where the lifeline becomes a deadly snake?	JMG	28 Jun 2007	Gristmill
India's emissions may be higher due to dams: India's greenhouse gas emissions could be 40 percent higher than official estimates if methane released from dams is taken into account, according to a new study. Methane -- about 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in terms of the amount of heat it traps -- is released from reservoirs, spillways and turbines of hydropower dams as a result of rotting carbon-containing vegetation. But India, already one of the world's t ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, India (all these topics)

Just what India needs!	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Really cheap cars.And so, hope continues to recede into the distance. Vroom vroom!
Topics: cars, India, placemaking (all these topics)

Power, program, and practical considerations: Objectives How to build a real climate movement	Ken Ward	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include)) Campaigns and programs crafted to advance the Bright Lines strategy must also fit real world constraints and political realities on the ground, and take account of external roadblocks to effective action. The following objectives address these issues. 1. Tangible risk. Climate change is like world hunger: it's an issue of concern when media attention is high, just as coverage of periodic famines raises concern about world hunger. Most American ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, India, politics (all these topics)

Another day, another carbon trading scandal Gee whiz	Gar Lipow	22 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The London Times covers a carbon trading scandal in in India. Like our own New York Times, they bury the lede: BRITISH companies are handing over millions of pounds to an Indian chemical plant so that western firms can continue to pump out thousands of tons of greenhouse gases. Indian company SRF, which produces refrigeration gases in Rajasthan, stands to make a profit of more than �300m. That is how carbon trading is supposed to work, right? Even if they are makin ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, India, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The responsibility era	David Roberts	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The editors of The New Republic make a simple point that can't be made often enough: The conservative notion that reducing GHG emissions in the U.S. is pointless unless China and India do the same is a moral grotesquery. We created the problem. Ethically and geopolitically, we are responsible for leading the way to a solution. Call it "the responsibility era."
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, India, politics, United States (all these topics)

In India, bullets fly as farms succumb to chemical factories A 'Maoist insurgency' in a global information-technology hub?	Tom Philpott	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Did you know that India, hub of the global information economy and destination of untold numbers of outsourced U.S. jobs, is in the grips of a Maoist insurgency? A recent Reuters article referred (a bit casually) to: the Maoist insurgency that has spread to about half of India's 29 states and has been described by Prime Minister Singh as the country's biggest internal security challenge since independence in 1947. Whoa! And what's the root cause? It turns out t ...
Topics: agriculture, food, India (all these topics)

Coal kills Report from India	Gar Lipow	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Daphne Wysham, co-director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network sends the following from Angul, Orissa, the heart of India's Coal Belt, on March 15, 2007: The smell of burning coal in household fires hangs in the air. Bicyclists carry heavy bags of coal from the mines to sell for a few rupees. They are overtaken by huge lorries carrying more than the tonnage they are supposed to carry -- all part of the black market in coal -- down busy streets, with cattle l ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, health, India (all these topics)

Now That's a Bald Spot Demand for air conditioning in developing countries hurts ozone		23 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Now That's a Bald Spot Demand for air conditioning in developing countries hurts ozone Remember when Britney had just broken up with K-Fed, and she seemed happy and healthy and getting her life back on track, and then things ... took a turn for the worse? Let us draw a slightly strained analogy to the ozone layer. As ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons were banned in Europe and began to be phased out in the U.S., the y ...
Topics: China, climate, India, news, ozone (all these topics)

Tongue Wrestling In India, U.K., and U.S., climate change is cause for conflict		05 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Tongue Wrestling In India, U.K., and U.S., climate change is cause for conflict Climate challenges erupted all over the globe this week. In India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a group of 5,000 scientists that the developing world "cannot afford to ape the West in terms of its environmentally wasteful lifestyle," adding that India must invest in alternative energy ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, George Bush, Germany, India, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

It's All Sarovar After years of controversy, India completes massive dam project		03 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
It's All Sarovar After years of controversy, India completes massive dam project One of the world's longest-running social and environmental campaigns is sleeping with the fishes as of Sunday, when the last bucket of concrete was poured on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Indian state of Gujarat. The project, initiated nearly 20 years ago, diverts India's fifth-largest river, the Narmada; authorities say it will provide drinking wa ...
Topics: dams, energy, India, news (all these topics)

Sardar Superstar India dam project still hot issue after more than 20 years		09 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Sardar Superstar India dam project still hot issue after more than 20 years For citizens of India, debate over dams is soap-operatic. Take the saga of the country's still-unfinished Sardar Sarovar dam. It has everything: protests, riots, hunger strikes, and long, protracted court battles. Proponents of the $7.7 billion dam on the Narmada River claim that, when completed, it will produce megawatts upon megawatts of m ...
Topics: dams, energy, hydropower, India, news (all these topics)

Countries May Have Shifted During Flight China builds new airports; still not as pollutey as U.S.		10 May 2006	Daily Grist
Countries May Have Shifted During Flight China builds new airports; still not as pollutey as U.S. China plans to build 48 new airports in the next five years, spending $17.5 billion on construction and continuing expansion of existing hubs. The country is already the premier buyer of Boeing and Airbus planes, and has vowed to buy 100 planes every year until 2010. (For perspective: China's new hubs will bring its ...
Topics: China, climate, India, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Curses, Fideled Again U.S. lawmakers see offshore drilling near Cuba and feel left out		09 May 2006	Daily Grist
Curses, Fideled Again U.S. lawmakers see offshore drilling near Cuba and feel left out The U.S. has a years-old ban against offshore drilling in the Florida Straits, but it looks like the area might get drilled anyway -- by Cuba. The island country has rights to resources in half of the straits under a 1977 agreement, which President Bush renewed for two years in December. Inste ...
Topics: China, Cuba, Florida, India, mining and drilling, news, oceans, politics (all these topics)

Hungry for Justice Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking		06 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Hungry for Justice Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking Demonstrations against dams in India's Narmada Valley yesterday brought the heavy hand of police, who roughed up protestors and arrested India's most famous environmentalist eight days into a hunger strike on charges of -- get this -- attempting suicide. Medha Patkar's fast started when officials began raisin ...
Topics: dams, energy, environmental justice, India, news, politics (all these topics)

Mumbai-Bye, Birdie India's vultures on verge of extinction thanks to cattle medication		28 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Mumbai-Bye, Birdie India's vultures on verge of extinction thanks to cattle medication India's once-abundant vulture population has plummeted an astonishing 97 percent in the past decade, and conservationists worldwide charge the Indian government with not acting quickly enough to save them. The culprit is diclofenac, a cheap painkiller used to treat sick cattle in South Asia; it poisons vultures when they scavenge meat off ...
Topics: India, news, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Oh My Gnarly Clemenceau French prez orders asbestos-laden ship returned to France		16 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Oh My Gnarly Clemenceau French prez orders asbestos-laden ship returned to France You thought disposing of your old computer was a hassle? Just wait 'til you try to get rid of your old warship. French President Jacques Chirac was lauded by green groups yesterday when he ordered the 50-year-old warship Clemenceau to return to France from India, where it had been sent to be dismantled. Having initially agreed to the ...
Topics: France, Greenpeace, India, news, toxics (all these topics)

Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting		09 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate partnership will kick off this Wednesday in Australia. The six participating nations -- Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. -- will emphasize the transfer of clean technologies to developing countries, in ...
Topics: Australia, China, climate, India, Japan, news, South Korea, United States (all these topics)

Tea Here Now In India, fair trade is changing a centuries-old industry	Nina Luttinger, Gregory Dicum	05 Jan 2006	Main Dish
By Nina Luttinger and Gregory Dicum 05 Jan 2006 The cool, misty highlands of the Western Ghats punctuate south India's steaming tropical plains. Their forests shelter tigers and elephants, and protect the fragile watersheds of the flatlands below. They also harbor pieces of a colonial legacy: the tea industry. Click here to see a gallery of photos from tea estates in India. Colonial authorities and entrepreneurs established t ...
Topics: business, India (all these topics)

You Light Up My Strife Solar LED lamps provide clean, cheap lighting to rural poor		05 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
You Light Up My Strife Solar LED lamps provide clean, cheap lighting to rural poor A handful of villagers in rural India are receiving a life-transforming technology: low-cost, solar-powered light-emitting diode (LED) lamps. Bombay-based Grameen Surya Bijli Foundation has installed the $55 lamps free of charge in about 300 homes. "Children can now study at night, elders can ma ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, energy at home, India, news, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Damalot Jacques Leslie's Deep Water sheds light on dam dramas	Michelle Nijhuis	12 Oct 2005	Arts and Minds
What does hell look like to an environmentalist? In the classic Encounters With the Archdruid, writer John McPhee imagines this particular inferno. The outer ring, he writes, is a moat filled with DDT. Inside lies another moat brimming with burning gasoline, and still deeper are masses of bulldozers and chainsaws. In the middle -- at "the absolute epicenter of hell on earth" -- stands a dam. & ...
Topics: Africa, Australia, dams, energy, India (all these topics)

Bombay Watch Bombay bans plastic bags, saying they can clog drains and cause flooding		30 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Bombay Watch Bombay bans plastic bags, saying they can clog drains and cause flooding Plastic bags are maddeningly ubiquitous and ugly as sin, but did you know they can cause flooding? According to India's Maharashtra state government, millions of bags clogged up drains in Bombay's slums during monsoon season, dramatically worsening the epic late-July flooding that killed hundreds of people in the city. Now the state plans to outlaw mo ...
Topics: health, India, news (all these topics)

Oh, I Thought You Said Non-Profiterole Bush breaks long-standing policy, offers India nuclear-energy technology		19 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Oh, I Thought You Said Non-Profiterole Bush breaks long-standing policy, offers India nuclear-energy technology President Bush has pledged to let India obtain nuclear reactors and fuel, potentially reversing a decades-long U.S. policy on limiting India's access to nuclear technology and continuing the post-Cold War warming trend in U.S.-India relations. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hopes civil nukes will help In ...
Topics: India, news, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

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