UK action over 'toxic waste' case
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A UK lawyer is to bring a group action on behalf on thousands of people in Ivory Coast who claim they were injured by "toxic waste".
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UK government policy works against  efforts to improve the nation's recycling record, a report says.
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An emerging discipline in Britain known as environmental forensics may make it quicker and easier to identify polluters in a court of law.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 12--LAUREL -- Attorneys representing DuPont's titanium-dioxide plant in DeLisle are asking the Jones County Circuit Court to throw out most of the 1,951 toxic-exposure lawsuits pending against the chemical giant.
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UK government departments are failing to meet targets for emissions, waste and water, an environmental watchdog says.
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By The Associated Press  Offenses covered by a new European Union draft law on crimes against the environment:  - Treatment, transport, export or import of waste that could cause death or injury, or substantial damage.
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An investigation is under way to try to discover how a banned antibiotic was found in organic chicken processed at a Northern Ireland factory.
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A truck driver took the British government to court on Thursday over a decision to send copies of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's global warming film to secondary schools as part of its climate change campaign.
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A European court ruling is expected in the legal wrangle between McDonald's and two environmental campaigners.
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Householders could be charged for the amount of rubbish they throw away, government confirms.
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Monsanto chemical company is under investigation in the wake of charges it paid contractors to dump highly toxic waste into landfill sites in Britain.
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Assembly member Huw Lewis is demanding answers and assurances from Welsh Water following a river chemical spillage.   A death toll of around 1,000 fish was expected after three tonnes of aluminium sulphate leaked into the Taf Fechan from Pontsticill water treatment works on August 13.
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A depot linked with "contaminated" fuel launches an investigation into whether it is to blame.
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Royal Mail faces an EU investigation into whether funding received was illegal under laws governing state aid.
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Councils in England will be allowed to pilot schemes to charge households according to how much rubbish they throw out. Is this the best way to promote recycling?
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The High Court is to hear an appeal against the Republic's first commercial waste incinerator.
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Food safety officials were last night trying to establish how 23 tonnes of organic free-range chicken sold from stores around Britain and Ireland contained a cancer-causing chemical banned in livestock since 1995.