We Must Design Less Toxic And Less Polluting Chemicals And Manufacturing

Paul Anastas, one of the fathers of green chemistry, is leaving his high-ranking post at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and returning to Yale. In a Q&A with Environmental Health News, Anastas said "it's time for me to go home." As science advisor and assistant administrator at EPA's Office of Research and Development, his goal was to shift EPA toward policies that would promote green chemistry, the movement to make chemicals and manufacturing systems more environmentally friendly. Anastas said there has been a "growing realization across EPA" that green chemistry "can meet environmental and economic goals simultaneously."
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2012/2012-0110anastas

http://greenchemistry.yale.edu/javascript/tinymce/plugins/filemanager/files/principles-of-green-chemistry.pdf

Brilliance Joins “No Dirty Gold” Campaign

Florida-based retailer of certified loose diamondsand fine jewelry, Brilliance.com, has recently joined the ranks of online jewelry titans such as Blue Nile, James Allen and Zales by becoming the latest addition to the to the growing number of jewelers and retailers which support the Golden Rules; a set of social, environmental and human rights criteria pushing for more responsible mining of gold and other precious metals. The Golden Rules is an advocacy of the No Dirty Gold campaign by Earthworks, a nonprofit organization which focuses on the protection of communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development.
http://worldisalive.com/politics-and-social-issues/brilliance-joins-no-dirty-gold-campaign-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brilliance-joins-no-dirty-gold-campaign-2

70 Billions Lost In Bad Mining Contracts, Tanzania Suffers

The local residents from the area however dispute this and attribute 
the toxic spill to sheer 'negligence' on the part of the Gold Mining 
Company and government's failure to put large scale Mining Companies 
under close scrutiny. The Mining Contracts signed under dubious 
circumstances, involving corrupt government officials, contain claw 
back provisions that have tacitly compelled the Government to keep a 
'hands off' stance from the Mining Companies and thus allowed them to 
reap the mining resources with minimal interference and less regard 
for the economic and environmental impacts accruing from mining 
activities in the Country. 
http://groups.google.com/group/wanabidii/browse_thread/thread/cf3f9508c484ebdd?pli=1

People Power! Mining Protests Spread To Argentina

“There is no social licence for any mega mining project in Famatina and La Rioja,” Carina Díaz Moreno, a spokeswoman for one of the protest groups that has been campaigning against mining since the days of Barrick, told beyondbrics. “No matter how many contracts (La Rioja provincial governor Luis) Beder Herrera signs, people won’t give him social licence,” she said. “We will be keeping the blocade until Beder Herrera gives in.”
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/01/17/people-power-mining-protests-spread-to-argentina/#axzz1jiRLCup7

The Grand Canyon: Not For Sale

Adding insult to injury, one of the largest uranium mines that Republicans want to open is owned in part by Russia's nuclear energy organization. That means the successor to the agency that presided over the Chernobyl disaster would be allowed to mine for uranium near one of America's most beloved national treasures.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-ed-markey/the-grand-canyon-not-for_b_1209604.html

Tainted Gold: Thousands Join Protest Against Peru's Largest Ever Mining Project

‘What has 20 years of Yanacocha brought..? Contamination and exploitation,’ says Hugo Gongora, who works as a market administrator for the municipality of Cajamarca, ‘It’s destroyed everything that was there, the land has been contaminated with cyanide and mercury, and the lakes have disappeared.’ 
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1202914/tainted_gold_thousands_join_protest_against_perus_largest_ever_mining_project.html

Small-Scale Miners In Pantukan Ask, Why Blame Us?

Whereas, large-scale and medium-scale mining create huge tunnels and detonate 40 dynamites at the same time.  Those can shake the mountain.)

Danilo added the government and miners have been mum of this fact because of threats in their lives,“Mao na ang kamatuoran, ug daghan pa gyud dapat inspeksyunon sa pamaagi aning mga dagkong kompanya.  Pero dili man mosaba maski kinsa kay ipapatay man dayon.”  (That’s the truth.  There are many things to inspect in the methods of these big companies.   But no one dares to speak or they will be killed.)

http://davaotoday.com/2012/01/17/small-scale-miners-in-pantukan-ask-why-blame-us/

Gold Mining: A Pristine Boise River Is Not For Sale

Atlanta Gold had argued that it no longer owned the old mining tunnel that fed contaminated water into the creek — trying to make the case that it was voluntarily cleaning up pollution that wasn’t its responsibility. Not exactly. In 2011, Atlanta Gold allowed its claim to the contaminated tunnel to expire — a convenient dodge, considering that the company had simultaneously exercised options on 33 other claims in the area.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/01/17/1955491/a-pristine-boise-river-is-not.html