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India's Hazardous Materials (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules

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Basel Action Network BAN and Toxics Link press release, 14 November 2007 (New Delhi): “…Environmentalists say that the newly drafted hazardous waste management law for India seeks to undo established, science-based definitions of waste and consider waste that is being recycled somehow less hazardous than the waste being landfilled in order to curry favor with hazardous scrapping industries.

  • Government of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests: Hazardous Materials (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2007.
  • AP: China’s e-waste nightmare worsening – “China now produces more than 1 million tons of e-waste each year, said Jamie Choi, a toxics campaigner with Greenpeace China in Beijing. That adds up to roughly 5 million television sets, 4 million fridges, 5 million washing machines, 10 million mobile phones and 5 million personal computers, according to Choi.”
  • Related postings on e-waste and recycling

    • Liberty: Terrorism pre-charge detention – Comparative law study

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    “Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) is one of the UK’s leading civil liberties and human rights organisations. Liberty works to promote human rights and protect civil liberties through a combination of test case litigation, lobbying, campaigning and research.” Liberty: Terrorism pre-charge detention – Comparative law study, Jago Russell, Editor, November 2007 (65 pages,… Continue Reading

    Joint 60 Minutes-Washington Post Report on Discredited Comparative Bullet-Lead Analysis

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    “Hundreds of defendants sitting in prisons nationwide have been convicted with the help of an FBI forensic tool that was discarded more than two years ago. But the FBI lab has yet to take steps to alert the affected defendants or courts, even as the window for appealing convictions is closing, a joint investigation by… Continue Reading

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Releases Fourth Assesment Report

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    “The IPCC has launched the first three volumes of its assessment report “Climate Change 2007” and is currently finalizing its Synthesis report [Fourth Assessment report (“AR4″]. The Synthesis Report [was] launched in Valencia, Spain, 17 November 2007 during a press conference.” Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (23… Continue Reading

    Report: Open Government Lags Far Behind Technology; States Making Limited Progress in Using the Web to Enhance the Public’s Right to Know

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    “State governments are improving their transparency practices, but many are still not taking full advantage of the Internet to inform the public. Online disclosure of corporate tax breaks and other economic development subsidies lags far behind reporting on procurement contracts and lobbying activities. These are the main findings of a report entitled The State of… Continue Reading

    Newsweek Review of Amazon's New E-Book Reader

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    The Future of Reading, by Steven Levy, Newsweek, November 17, 2007: “…the Kindle…has the dimensions of a paperback, with a tapering of its width that emulates the bulge toward a book’s binding. It weighs but 10.3 ounces, and unlike a laptop computer it does not run hot or make intrusive beeps….with the use of E… Continue Reading

    British Museum Launches Searchable Collection Database

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    “Welcome to the British Museum collection database. When complete, it will contain a record of every object in the Museum collection. This is the first release and contains records for the collection of two-dimensional works (almost entirely drawings, prints and paintings) from all over the world. New records and images are being added every week… Continue Reading