Industrial sites big health threat, report says

November 2012

Mexico

Auto industry fighting Mexico’s fuel-economy rule

Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s government promised to set fuel economy standards as long ago as 2007, when it first presented the country’s climate-change strategy. ......

Bolivia

Questions greet Bolivia’s surprise ban on GM seed

With soy planting about to get underway in the fertile lowlands of eastern Bolivia, the Bolivian government has stunned soy producers with a new law ......

Brazil

Brazil’s Rio state cracks down on steel mill

Rio de Janeiro state is showing environmental-enforcement muscle by continuing to fine the German and Brazilian owners of a new US$7 billion steel mill over ......

Argentina

Major push in Argentina to create more parks

Argentine authorities have launched a major expansion of the country’s protected-areas system through a variety of means, including agreements with provincial governments, appeals to citizens ......

Region

Industrial sites big health threat, report says

Worldwide, some 125 million people are at risk of health problems from pollution at industrial sites, and about 26 million of them live in Latin ......

Around the Region

In Peru, ban on genetically altered organisms in force

Peru’s 10-year ban on genetically modified crops and animals took full effect this month as the government issued regulations that spell out how the law, ......

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Campaign targets prized Guatemalan forest

Though small, Sierra Caral, a 26-by-9.5-kilometer (16-by-6-mile) woodland on this country’s border with Honduras, is the most biodiverse forest remnant in Caribbean Guatemala. Beset by ......

Q&A

Uruguay’s ‘green prosecutor’ faults his country’s courts

On paper, Enrique Viana’s job description resembles that of all prosecutors active in Uruguay’s civil-court system. The difference, as he sees it, is that he ......

Industrial sites big health threat, report says

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Worldwide, some 125 million people are at risk of health problems from pollution at industrial sites, and about 26 million of them live in Latin America, according to the U.S.-based Blacksmith Institute. In a report released in late October, the Blacksmith Institute and the Geneva-based Green Cross Switzerland estimate the burden of disease in 49 low- to middle-income countries due to exposure to pollution from 10 principal industrial sources—lead-acid battery recycling, lead smelting, mining and ore processing, tanneries, industrial and municipal waste dumps, industrial parks, artisanal gold mining, product manufacturing, chemical manufacturing and the dye industry. About 20% of the sites were in Latin America, according to Bret Ericson, program director for the Blacksmith Institute’s Global Toxic Site Identification Program... [Log in to read more]

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November 2012

Mexico

Auto industry fighting Mexico’s fuel-economy rule

Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s government promised to set fuel economy standards as long ago as 2007, when it first presented the country’s climate-change strategy. ......

Bolivia

Questions greet Bolivia’s surprise ban on GM seed

With soy planting about to get underway in the fertile lowlands of eastern Bolivia, the Bolivian government has stunned soy producers with a new law ......

Brazil

Brazil’s Rio state cracks down on steel mill

Rio de Janeiro state is showing environmental-enforcement muscle by continuing to fine the German and Brazilian owners of a new US$7 billion steel mill over ......

Argentina

Major push in Argentina to create more parks

Region

Industrial sites big health threat, report says

Worldwide, some 125 million people are at risk of health problems from pollution at industrial sites, and about 26 million of them live in Latin ......

Around the Region

In Peru, ban on genetically altered organisms in force

Peru’s 10-year ban on genetically modified crops and animals took full effect this month as the government issued regulations that spell out how the law, ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Campaign targets prized Guatemalan forest

Though small, Sierra Caral, a 26-by-9.5-kilometer (16-by-6-mile) woodland on this country’s border with Honduras, is the most biodiverse forest remnant in Caribbean Guatemala. Beset by ......

Q&A

Uruguay’s ‘green prosecutor’ faults his country’s courts

On paper, Enrique Viana’s job description resembles that of all prosecutors active in Uruguay’s civil-court system. The difference, as he sees it, is that he ......