Press Releases and News Stories

• Taiwan's Formosa Apologises for Cambodia Waste - 30 December 1998
• Taiwan Urges Formosa to Retrieve Cambodia Waste - 28 December 1998
• Toxic Waste Sparks Exodus from Cambodia Port City - 28 December 1998
• Taiwan Offers to Assist Cambodia Waste Inquiry - 28 December 1998
• Asia Faces Growing Toxic Waste Dangers - 28 December 1998
• Japan Expert Says Cambodia Waste Must be Moved - 27 December 1998
• Human Rights Action Committee Calls on the Government to take Action - 25 December 1998
• FOCUS -- Cambodia Waste Shows "High" Mercury Levels - 25 December 1998
• Taiwan Green Group Pursues Cambodia Waste Samples - 24 December 1998
• Cambodian Police Probe New Waste Dumping - 24 December 1998
• From Killing Fields to Dumping Grounds - 22 December 1998
• Police Remove Activists for Delaying Toxic Ship - 21 December 1998
• Activists Blockade Toxic Ship in New Zealand - 21 December 1998
• One Dead in Cambodian Protests Against Toxic Waste - 20 December 1998
• Cambodians Riot in Protest over Taiwanese Waste - 19 December 1998
• Boss Arrested for Fatal Toxin Import - 19 December 1998
• Hun Sen Threatens Ministers Involved in Toxic Dumping - 19 December 1998
• Toxic Shock: Australia Supports the Dumping of Toxic Waste in Asia - 16 December 1998
• Cambodia: Officials Find Tons of Suspected Toxic Waste - 16 December 1998
• Cambodia to Return Taiwan Waste if Proved Toxic - 15 December 1998
• Persistent Organic Pollutants Pervade Asia - 23 November 1998
• No Plan for Nuclear Waste Dump on Marshalls - Taiwan - 23 November 1998
• EU "Toxic" Ship Exports to Asia Attacked - 19 November 1998
• Let Steeping Ash Lie - City Says - 19 November 1998
• Ship Industry Ignores EU Law and Saddles Asia with Toxic Waste - 17 November 1998
• Spanish Activists Protest Dumping of Scrap Ships to India - 16 November 1998
• Environmentalists: Ship Industry Must Stop Dumping Toxic Waste on Developing Countries - 16 November 1998
• Oslo Frets About Plans to Tow Ex-Soviet Warship - 11 November 1998
• Landfill Reverses on Ash - 11 November 1998
• Embassy in Amman Denies Toxic Waste Deal with Israel - 9 November 1998
• Haiti to Return U.S. Waste - 6 November 1998
• UN Plan Would Give Exporters Cleanup Liability Body - 3 November 1998
• Haiti: U.S. Toxic Waste to be Returned to U.S. - 3 Novermber 1998
• New Ship Hauls Haitian Ash - 30 October 1998
• Mozambique: Ministry Revokes Authorization for Waste Company to Operate - 30 October 1998 Philadelphia Incinerator Ash to Return from Haiti to the U.S. - 28 October 1998
• Danish Support to Toxic Waste Treatment in Southern Africa - Greenpeace and Local Groups Fear Increased Illegal Waste Trade - 26 October 1998
• Danish Ministry Funds Campaign Against Danish Aid Project - 26 October 1998
• Mozambique Never Authorized Import of Waste - Mocumbi - 16 October 1998
• Ministers Quizzed About Toxic Waste - 15 October 1998
• Danish Development Project Encouraging Toxic Waste Trade Into Mozambique? - 5 October 1998
• U.S. Halts Scrapping of Ships Overseas - 24 September 1998
• South Africa Hands High-Level Team Thor's Mercury Problem - 28 August 1998
• Canada Slapped with NAFTA Lawsuit Against Another Environmental Law - 24 August 1998
• Shipbreaking in Southeast Asia - 23 August 1998
• Australia Ratifies South Pacific Hazwaste Treaty - 20 August 1998
• India Shipbreaking in Hot Water - 18 August 1998
• Danish Incineration Project Could Make Mozambique African Toxic Dumping Ground Says New Action Group - 11 August 1998
• Incinerator Expert Visits Mozambique to Meet With Local Communities - Challenges Danish Government to Debate - 10 August 1998
• Mercury Waste Stockpile Riles S. African Lawmakers - 4 August 1998
• Legislation Would Ban Exporting of Old Ships - 18 July 1998
• World Sees Africa as Its Rubbish Dump - 17 July 1998
• Japanese Companies Find Ways to Export Garbage at a Profit - 16 July 1998
• Solid Waste: Namibia Considers Plan to Import NYC Trash - 29 June 1998
• Recycling the World's Once Mighty Ships - 26 June 1998
• Walvis Weighs Waste Proposal - 26 June 1998
• Toxic Waste Problems on U.S.- Mexican Border - 25 June 1998
• Senate Panel Backs Ship-export Ban - 12 June 1998
• Execs Fight Ship Scrapping Plan - 11 June 1998
• Shipbreaker Eyes Government Aid - 11 June 1998
• Plans to Reform Shipbreaking Draw Criticism from Gilchrest - 5 June 1998
• U.S. Plan to Export Toxic Ships to Third World Ignores International Law - 3 June 1998
• Plans to Export "Toxic Ferries" from Denmark to India Called Illegal - 20 May 1998
• EU Accused of Waste Exports "Double Standard" - 18 May 1998
• USA Environmental Groups Denounce U.S. Refusal to Ratify Global Waste Dumping Ban - May 12 1998
• Activists Protest U.S. Policy - Toxic Waste in Haiti - 24 April 1998
• Philadelphia Dumps on the Poor - April 1998
• India Tackles Toxic Waste - 22 April 1998
• Environmentalists Vow to End Trade in Toxic Ships - 22 April 1998
• G-7 Countries Adopt New Green Policy - 6 April 1998
• A Slow Burn: Khian Sea Ash Hurts Haiti and City's Reputation - 6 April 1998
• Australian Waste Trader Convicted in Hong Kong - 25 March 1998
• Loopholes in Basel Treaty Remain - 22 March 1998
• Waste Dumpers Named - 22 March 1998
• Haiti-Toxic Waste - 13 March 1998
• Ban on Toxic Waste Intact for Now - 2 March 1998
• Ban on Toxic Waste Dumping Reaffirmed - 28 February 1998
• Toxic Waste Convention Debates Ban on Dumping in Developing Countries - 27 February 1998
• Basel Meeting on Hazardous Wastes Ends on Note of Optimism - 27 February 1998
• Countries Say "No Changes to Basel Ban Until Entry into Force" - 27 February 1998
• Asia Pushes For Ban on Toxic Waste Exports - 26 February 1998
• Activists "Locked Out" of Toxic Waste Conference - 26 February 1998
• Israel Undermines World Wide Ban on Waste Trade - 25 February 1998
• Borneo Paying Attention to Wrongful Declarations by Importers - 24 February 1998
• Malaysia Committed to Protect Environs - 24 February 1998
• Parties to Basel Convention Debate Ban on Exports to Non-OECD States - 24 February 1998
• Greenpeace Protests Israel - Slovenia Bid to Import Hazardous Waste - 24 February 1998
• Objection to Inclusion of Israel - Monaco - 24 February 1998
• Greenpeace Slams Rich Nations Over Toxic Waste - 24 February 1998
• Basel Ban: Final Round to Put an End to Global Waste Dumping - 23 February 1998
• Slovenia Threatens International Toxic Waste Dumping Ban - 23 February 1998
• Ministers to Specify the Hazardous Wastes that Are Subject to Export Ban - 23 February 1998
• Global hazardous waste meeting gets underway -23 February 1998
• Global Toxics Network Launched - 16 February 1998
• Dutch PVC Waste Still Exported to Asia - 4 February 1998
• Greenpeace Flays U.S. for Toxic Shipwrecks in Southeast Asia - 21 January 1998
• Indian Protest Against Toxic-Laden Ships - 21 January 1998
• Greenpeace Urges Paraguay and All Latin American Countries to Support Ban on Waste Trade - 15 January 1998
• US Ships of Death to Sail to South Asia for Scrapping - 15 January 1998
• Dumping on Haiti - 13 Jan 1998
• Windhoek Has Dumping Proposal Rejected - 8 January 1998
• Analysis: Toxic Waste Sickens Asia - 30 December 1997
• Legal Loopholes Let Toxic Waste Pour In - 22 December 1997
• Hazardous Waste Trade Growing With Little Global Regulation - 27 October 1997
• Greenpeace Protests Australian Waste Shipment - 23 September 1997
• Shipment of Lead Batteries is Illegal Says Greenpeace - August 4 1997
• Thor Slammed for Toxic Waste Imports It Couldn't Process - 14 May 1997
• Thor Chemicals: Damages Claim - 10 April 1997
• Breakthrough by the Technical Working Group - 14 March 1997
• Despite Court Ban - India Imports Toxic Wastes - 26 February 1997
• Basel Convention Adopts Ban - 22 September 1995

Basel Action News *** SPECIAL COP-4 EDITION ***

• Barcelona Sets Precedent for Basel Ban
• NGOs Ousted from Contact Group
• Global Dumping Lays Waste to Scavengers' Livelihood
• Israel and Slovenia: Preview of Annex VII Horror Show?
• Austria and Germany Support Slovenia Bid to Jump to Annex VII

Basel Action News - Vol 1 - #1

• TOP STORY: Annex VII 'Criteria' -- Last Attempt to Undermine Ban?
• Lest We Forget
• ACP/EU Oppose Any Weakening of Basel Ban
• EU Commission: Article 11 Cannot Be Used to Circumvent Basel Ban
• Asian Pollution Forces Cancellation of Basel Conference
• India: the World's Final Dumpyard!
• Basel Ban Revisionism -- Blaming the Victims
• U.S Waste Still Lies on Haitian Beach After 12 Years

Last updated: 30 December 1998