Press Releases and News Stories

• India to ban new ship-breaking yards, curb coastal construction - 4 July 2008
• UN Waste Treaty Postpones Long Awaited Toxic Waste Dumping Ban - 27 June 2008
• Officials: Poor nations can't manage toxic waste - 26 June 2008
• UN says poverty is fueling trade of hazardous waste exports to poor countries - 26 June 2008
• EPA's Electronic Waste Recycling Standard Denounced for Allowing Global Toxic Dumping
  - 23 June 2008
• U.S. Government OK's Illegal Trafficking in Hazardous Electronic Waste - 23 June 2008
• E-Waste: E-trash Swamps the Developing World - 19 June 2008
• The problem with ship scrapyards isn't what you think - 12 June 2008
• Waste Company Would Import Mexican PCBs to Burn in Texas - 9 June 2008
• U.S. switch to digital TV raises specter of toxic dumping of old sets - 4 June 2008
• Event will accept, recycle unwanted electronic gear - 3 June 2008
• Green groups urge rich countries to rethink waste policies - 27 May 2008
• Environmental Victory for Proper Ship Scrapping! - 16 May 2008
• Where Computers Go to Die - 15 May 2008
• Indian ship breakers lose business to Bangladesh - 3 May 2008
• 'Fixing' flawed JPEPA - 2 May 2008
• Global Marketing Systems responds to EPA investigation - 2 May 2008
• Japanese condemn JPEPA too! - 24 April 2008
• NO FOOD, NO JOBS, NO FUTURE with JPEPA - 21 April 2008
• The 'green' way to dump electronic junk - 21 April 2008
• Recycle That Computer Hidden in Your Closet - 20 April 2008
• A warning for those recycling electronics - 18 April 2008
• Senate Urged to Uphold People's Interest vs JPEPA - 16 April 2008
• Beware Free Electronic Waste Collection Events 'For the Environment' - 15 April 2008
• Citizens' Coalition Vows to Escalate Action against JPEPA - 10 April 2008
• Large numbers of HP suppliers flout CSR guidelines - 7 April 2008
• EPA alleges Md. firm illegally exported toxic ship for recycling - 25 March 2008
• EPA complaint targets city-based business - 24 March 2008
• EPA sues to keep decaying ship from leaving U.S. - 21 March 2008
• Independence sails into a new set of problems - 21 March 2008
• EPA Sues US Ship Broker for Illegal Export but Allows 'Toxic Timebomb' to Sail Away
  - 20 March 2008
• Aged ships a toxic export - 19 March 2008
• EPA sues to stop Sanctuary owner from towing boat to Greece - 19 March 2008
• EPA files complaint against ship brokers for violations of Toxic Substances Control Act - 18 March 2008
• Toxic waste in TV transition - 16 March 2008
• Fugitive Toxic Ocean Liner Now Believed to be Nearing Guam –
  Mariners are Asked to Report Whereabouts and to Avoid Selling Ship Fuel - 6 March 2008
• Ocean Liner's Final Voyage to Asia under Scrutiny - 29 February 2008
• EPA called on to Stop Illegal Departure of Toxic Ocean Liner in Hawaii –
  Historic SS Independence loaded with PCBs and asbestos to be scrapped - 20 February 2008
• Environmentalists Denounce Illegal Departure of Toxic Ship from San Francisco –
  SS Independence with PCBs and Asbestos Slipped Away in the Fog - 12 February 2008
• Last U.S. ocean liner heads into the unknown - 9 February 2008
• Recycled Electronics May Leave Hazardous E-Waste - 6 February 2008
• Nigeria: As E-Waste Dump, Lagos Imperils People - 23 January 2008
• The Afterlife of Cellphones - 13 January 2008
• A Recycled Laptop's Journey, Part 2: Doing the Job Right - 10 January 2008
• Warning over e-waste cowboys - 9 January 2008
• Beware Electronics "Recyclers" that Don't Recycle - 7 January 2008
• Electronics makers vie to make machines green - 4 January 2008
• A Recycled Laptop's Journey, Part 1: Exporting Toxic Waste - 3 January 2008
• High-tech Trash - January 2008
  

Last updated: 4 July 2008