Over two-thirds of incinerators not complying with limits
ARNIKA suggests stricter measures for treatment of ashes – the final place for most of dioxins
Mydlovary – the end station for toxic chemicals
Company Quail Ltd. “recultivates” sludge bed in Mydlovary with toxic ashes taken from waste incinerators.
Arnika: the Inspectorate imposed too low a fine on Draslovka
On its press conference, the Czech Environmental Inspectorate announced the amount of fines which it imposed on LZ Draslovka Kolín for release of cyanides into Elbe in January....
Environmental Best Practice Awards Presented to Pioneering Hospitals in Europe
Five environmental projects were presented with CleanMed Europe Best Practice Awards during CleanMed 2006, Europe's largest conference on sustainable products and practices in...
Metropolitan Authority believes that EIA is not necessary because of a banality such as a skyscraper
The Department of Environmental Protection of the Prague Metropolitan Authority decided that the first of the pair of the planned „Epoque“ skyscrapers of the company ECM in the...
Citizens' associations contacted UNESCO because of skyscrapers in Pankrác
The Czech Republic breaks the obligations it undertook in the time when the UNESCO organisation inscribed Prague on the World Cultural Heritage List. This is claimed by Arnika,...
Citizens' associations applied to the court because of reconstruction of the Pankrác plain
COMMON PRESS RELEASE OF ATELIÉR PRO ŽIVOTNÍ PROSTŘEDÍ (STUDIO FOR THE ENVIRONMENT), ARNIKA, OBČANSKÁ INICIATIVA PANKRÁCE (CITIZENS INITIATIVE OF PANKRÁC) AND PANKRÁCKÁ SPOLEČNOST...
REACH to guarantee stricter control of hazardous chemicals
In the last two weeks, Czech Republic saw one of the largest ecological disasters within few decades. Toxic cyanides leaked from chemical plant LZ Draslovka based in town Kolín...
Ratification of the Stockholm Convention by Turkey is near - IPEN supported the first conference on persistent organic pollutants in Turkey
The historically first conference dedicated to the issue of highly hazardous persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (1) in Turkey took place at the end of December in Istanbul. In...
The proposed limits of toxic substances in wastes degrade the Stockholm Convention
The EU proposed limits for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (1) are so weak that they do not begin to address the problems they were designed to solve. ” The proposed limits...
Stricter chemical policy of the EU is required by more than 13 600 people
Today, Arnika handed over to Czech Members of the European Parliament (EP) the petition, Toxics Free Future II, which has been signed, as of yet, by 13,686 signatories. The...
The European Union money used for contamination of a protected landscape area by fly ash
A mixture of toxic fly ash with slag from the Liberec waste incinerator, which was sold by the Termizo company, without authorisation, for construction purposes for more than a...
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