Top of Pollutions
In a week where the highlights from the environment side of the legal research area cou nt goods and bads including the ruling by a federal court in Vermont, US, approving state regulation aimed at curbing carbon emission in lack of federal initiatives; new outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey, UK; and the publishing of the IUCN’s (the World Conservation Union) annual report sounding the alarm bell over the state of worlds wildlife, inter alia , pointing out that 188 further species are in danger of extinction compared to last year, yesterday’s list of the World’s most polluted places only seems to add to the list of bads. The list, compiled by the New York based environmental group The Blacksmith Institute, list the ten most polluted places in the world and includes sites in Russia , Azerbaijan , China , India , Ukraine , Peru and Zambia . Compared to the list from last year, this year’s new entries include Tianying , China and Sukinda in India . The site of Tianying in C...