Chemical Industry 
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Workplace tobacco cessation program in India: A success story
This paper describes the follow-up interventions and results of the work place tobacco cessation study.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Vol: 13 Issue: 3 pp: 146-153
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- Reports and Documents
Murky waters?: corporate reporting on water risk - a benchmarking study of 100 companies
A comprehensive assessment and ranking of water disclosure practices by Ceres of 100 publicly-traded companies in 8 key sectors exposed to water-related risks - beverage, chemicals, electric power, food, homebuilding, mining, oil & gas and semiconductors.
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- Feb 2010
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- Ceres
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- News
Can Didi do what Buddha couldn’t?
Railways Gears Up To Acquire Land In Nandigram, Sweetens Deal For Farmers
Rakhi Mazumdar KOLKATA
- Date:
- 30/01/2010
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- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Ecology hint on Nayachar
Prasoon Mukherjee, whose company is involved in the Nayachar project, today fleetingly mentioned at a seminar that he had plans for an eco-tourism project at the site of the proposed chemical hub.
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- 22/01/2010
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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Nuclear nod & Nayachar wait
Calcutta, Jan. 13: The proposed nuclear power plant in East Midnapore’s Haripur has got the environment clearance but the chemical hub slated to come up 60km away in Nayachar has yet to get it, Jairam Ramesh said today.
- Date:
- 14/01/2010
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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Maharashtra Pollution Control Board cracks down on chemical units
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has its guns set on the chemical factories at the Lote Parshuram industrial area in Chiplun. These factories, which are blatantly violating environment protection norms, have been issued show cause notice for allegedly polluting water at the Borje dam near Khed.
- Date:
- 07/01/2010
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- Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Notices to 50 firms after chemical spill
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has issued notices to 50 chemical companies in Ratnagiri district after a chemical was dumped on a national highway, polluting a dam supplying water to over 25,000 people in Khed sub-district, officials said.
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- 30/12/2009
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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OSHRC seeks report on ‘polluting’ chemical unit in Dhenkanal
The Odisha State Human Rights Commission (OSHRC) has sought a report from the Dhenkanal Collector regarding pollution by Divyajyoti Chemicals Private Limited at Kanakhai village in Bhuban block of Dhenkanal district, engaged in manufacturing of chromic acid (sodium dichromate).
- Date:
- 21/12/2009
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- Pioneer (New Delhi)
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Energy intensive sectors of the Indian economy: Options for low-carbon development (LCD)
India's carbon intensity from energy use is set to decline until at least 2031 according to these preliminary findings of forthcoming World Bank study. Examines five sectors of Indian economy that accounted for three-quarters of CO² emissions from energy use in 2007.
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- Dec 2009
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- World Bank
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Chemical group cuts emissions but lifts temperatures
Rhodia, a French chemicals company, has become a cause célèbre among critics of the Clean Development Mechanism for receiving huge windfalls from small investments in emerging economies.
- Date:
- 02/12/2009
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- Financial Times (London)
