Groups reject Orica Australia’s proposal to incinerate toxic waste in Finland
International and Australian NGOs have expressed their strong opposition to the Minister for...
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New Report: Highly hazardous pesticides in the Pacific
This report is a result of research undertaken by the non-government organisations National Toxics...
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Burning Biomass for Energy: A Fast Track to Climate Change and Adverse Health Impacts
Misdirected subsidies to the biomass industry undermine genuine clean, safe renewable energy...
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New toxic time bomb: Contaminants in marine plastic pollution
The United Nations Environment Program called marine plastics the “new toxic time- bomb”. Marine...
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Latest National Pollution Inventory data reveals Curtis Island LNG plant is belching out massive amounts of toxic air pollutants
The latest data from the National Pollution Inventory (NPI) confirms that Australian families...
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Public Letter to President Hernandez of Honduras
In solidarity, NTN, together with over 50 international organisations has signed this public...
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Firefighters, community and environment at risk from perfluorinated chemcials
NTN has released a report on the Persistence and Toxicity of Perfluorinated Compounds in...
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NEW REPORT: Impacts of UG exploration and mining
After another successful international speaking tour on the impacts unconventional gas by Dr...
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Pharmaceutical pollution reaching alarming levels globally
The National Toxics Network (NTN) has released a new report and a fact sheet warning that...
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Trading your health for stain- and waterproof clothing?
“Stain-resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof and Lethal” is how a journalist once referred to a highly...
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Indonesian government promoting risky unconventional gas and Australia companies are responding
The Indonesian government is promoting unconventional gas exploration and production in Indonesia....
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Glyphosate declared a ‘probable human carcinogen’
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently assessed the carcinogenicity of...
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Are timber plantations killing oysters in the Georges Bay catchment, Tasmania?
Congratulations to NTN’s Dr Alison Bleaney , Rye Senjen and co-authors for getting this...
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New Resource on Health Threats Posed by Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals
(Washington DC) As governments, industry and public interest groups from across the globe prepare...
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Water monitoring for pesticides halted in Tasmania
In mid-October 2014, the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment...
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