Toxic Waste

Chevron and Cultural Genocide in Ecuador

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home


Kerry Kennedy

I had heard about what has been called "Chevron's Chernobyl in the Amazon" for years. But nothing could prepare me for the horror I witnessed this week in Ecuador.

Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, A Smelly and Unique Stop-Off In Greenpoint During Open House New York

Katharine Jose | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York


By 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, all the free tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant were full. The tall chain-link fence gate was o...

New Evidence Links Oil Company To Toxic Waste Dumping In The Ivory Coast?

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green


AMSTERDAM — Greenpeace said Thursday it has uncovered new evidence linking a major oil trading company to toxic waste that killed 15 people in I...

Green News Report - September 8, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?

Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living


Christina Pirello

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

Britain Dumping Toxic Waste

Times London | Ben Webster | Posted 08.18.2009 | Green


Britain was accused yesterday of dumping toxic household and industrial waste in developing countries on two continents in breach of an international ...

Almost Hell West Virginia; Where Is The Obama Administration?

Jerry Cope | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green


Jerry Cope

Coal mining is the Appalachians is the great American tragedy, and every citizen of this country should be ashamed and horrified that we are collectively allowing this to happen.

Trafigura Dumped Toxic Waste On Ivory Coast: Documents

Guardian | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


Documents have emerged which detail for the first time the potentially lethal nature of toxic waste dumped by British-based oil traders in one of west...

Green News Report - April 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green


Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Welcome aboard to our latest new affiliate station - KRXA 540am in beautiful Monterey, CA! IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama in Iowa for Earth Day whil...

Pentagon Knowingly Exposed U.S. Soldiers To Toxic Waste: Leaked Memo

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.10.2009 | World


The Pentagon allegedly endangered U.S. soldiers by implementing and covering-up dangerously toxic waste-incineration practices at Balad Airbase in Ira...

Ivory Coast Misses Principals, But Jails 2 Over Toxic Waste

AP | BENOIT HILI | Posted 11.23.2008 | Green


ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — An Ivory Coast court has ordered two men jailed for their roles in a toxic waste dumping scandal that the government clai...

The Toxic Crime of the Century

Jackie Fuchs | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green


Jackie Fuchs

For months now, Campania has been suffocating under heaps of uncollected garbage shipped from economically sound northern Italian regions to the much poorer south.

Port Arthur, Texas: Small City, Reluctant International Toxic Dump

New York Times | Adam B. Ellick | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green


PORT ARTHUR, Tex. -- This downtrodden chemical town on the Gulf of Mexico has no shortage of nicknames: Cancer Alley, the Armpit of Texas, Ring of Fir...