Shaping the next industrial revolution.
The need to achieve an environmentally sustainable world is shaping the evolution of the global economy. Ecological pressures increasingly will influence economic decisions, making some industries obsolete while opening up a host of new investment opportunities. Companies and nations that fail to invest strategically in the new technologies, products,...

In defense of recycling.
Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources.... [T]here's no reason to make recycling a legal or moral imperative. John Tierney (1996b, pp. 24, 26) ...

Ship of ills: Brazilians are being poisoned by used car batteries shipped from the US ...
IT'S a sunny September day, a hot time of year in Brazil's North-East. A young woman and two youths are walking carefully up a hillside covered by creeping vegetation. Below runs a brook. In the distance lies a small town of humble dwellings with goats and chickens here and...

The director as polluter.
The Director As Polluter The astronomical costs attributable to compensating for, cleaning up, and preventing environmental damage is quickly making environmental liability issues one of the most important legal frontiers of the decade. State regulators have identified tens of thousands of so-called "Superfund" sites requiring cleanup of hazardous...

Court overturns EPA's asbestos ban.
A U.S. District Court of Appeals in New Orleans late last month struck down EPA's phaseout of most asbestos products, begun two years ago. In its response, EPA noted that "the Court does not dispute the fact that asbestos is hazardous" -- only that EPA "failed to fully meet...

Metals concentrations in tissues of Tilapia gallier, Crarias lazera and Osteoglossidae caught from Alau Dam, Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria.
INTRODUCTION Heavy metals in aquatic environment are a major concern because of their toxicity and threat to plant and animal life disturbing the natural ecological balance. The specific problem associated with the heavy metals in the environment is their accumulation through food chain and persistent in nature....

Computing the costs: thanks to their rapid descent into obsolescence, home computers are now essentially disposable goods, But what happens to them after we consign them to the trash heap? And what about the problems associated with production?
Our ancestors would be stunned: not only do we inhabitants of the 21st century rely on computers in every aspect of our daily lives, but we're also remarkably casual about them, shopping for new PCs and so forth on our high streets the way we pick up fruit and...

China strengthens pollution control in 2008.
The State Environmental Protection Administration has pointed out that local environmental protection departments should strengthen pollution control in 2008 and reduce the emission of sulfur dioxide and COD (chemical oxygen demand) by 6% and 5% respectively compared with 2005. China will increase urban sewage treatment capacity by...

Residential proximity to hazardous waste sites and risk of end-stage renal disease.
Introduction End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is characterized by total renal failure making hemodialysis or organ transplantation necessary. Some ESRD can be explained by underlying disease processes such as diabetes mellitus or polycystic kidney disease (1). The etiologic origin of many of the remaining ESRD cases has not been determined...

Assessing the fitness of novel scientific evidence in the post-Daubert era: pesticide exposure cases as a paradigm for determining admissibility.
I. INTRODUCTION Problems inhere with the introduction of scientific evidence to prove general and specific causation. In particular, novel scientific evidence proffered in toxic tort litigation presents considerable problems for courts today. Novel scientific evidence refers to evidence or theories that have not received approbation from the...