Taiwan’s offshore Penghu County is facing a serious oil pollution threat along some of its shores from a stranded Thailand-flagged freighter, a local official said Tuesday [Feb, 21, 2012]. The Oberon ran aground in shallow water off Mudou islet, part of the Penghu archipelago, early Sunday in strong winds. All 16 of the vessel’s [...]
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Two-thirds of African countries have access to the sea. Some are making good use of it through fishing and tourism. But the productivity of African waters is plummeting….The main reason is bad governance. African Union calls to fight overfishing with joint navy patrols and co-operation between fisheries have been ignored. Nigeria, among Africa’s richest [...] Union Pacific Railroad Co. will pay $1.5 million to settle alleged violations of the US Clean Water Act and US Oil Pollution Act. The settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency resolves a Clean Water Act enforcement action against Union Pacific that involves operations at 20 rail yards and spills of oil and coal in [...] An audit released by Apple on Frida (Jan. 14, 2012) (pdf) y reveals widespread violations of worker rights and environmental practices by manufacturing partners for the company’s wildly popular iPhone, iPad and other gadgets around the world. Apple found that 62 percent of the 229 facilities it inspected were not in compliance with the [...] More than 170 countries have agreed to accelerate adoption of a global ban on the export of hazardous wastes (pdf), including old electronics, to developing countries. The environmental group Basel Action Network called Friday’s deal, which was brokered by Switzerland and Indonesia, a major breakthrough. “I’m ecstatic,” said its executive director, Jim Puckett. “I’ve [...] A village in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta where observers found a drinking-water well polluted with benzene 900 times the international limit has sued Royal Dutch Shell PLC for $1 billion in a U.S. federal court. The lawsuit alleges that Shell, long the dominant oil company over Nigeria’s more than 50 years of production, acted [...] Annual general meetings are sometimes stormy affairs, but the tempest swirling around the London AGM of the oil giant BP this morning looks unprecedented. At least half a dozen vociferous and angry groups are set to lay siege to the British Petroleum board and its American chief executive, Bob Dudley, when they go through [...] Japan warned on Sunday it could take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, while voters said a coalition would better handle the crisis and post-quake recovery effort. An aide to embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government’s priority was to [...] TEPCO is getting most of the blame for Japan’s nuclear disaster. For much of the past three weeks, the authorities have held out hopes that they could regain control by reconnecting cooling systems damaged by the tsunami. These are supposed to prevent fuel from melting and rupturing the protective steel case of the reactor [...] Honeywell International Inc. was fined $11.8 million on Friday after pleading guilty to a felony count of knowingly storing hazardous waste in southern Illinois without a permit, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Nearly 7,500 illegally stored drums that contained radioactive and hazardous waste were found in April 2009 when agents with the [...] |
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