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Marcos Orellana, a special rapporteur, found lax environmental standards and lack of oversight allowed pollution to accumulate

Mexico is facing a “toxic crisis” and has become a “garbage sink” for the…

4 months ago

After stories revealed high levels of contamination in neighborhood around factory processing US toxic waste, government announces sweeping array of tactics

The Mexican government has announced it wil…

6 months ago

Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health

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An industr…

13 months ago

Zinc Nacional will move ‘most polluting’ operations after joint investigation found heavy-metals pollution in area

  • Revealed: US hazardous waste is sent to Mexico – where a ‘toxic cocktail’ of pollutio…

14 months ago

An investigation found thousands of white bags near Monterrey, but aerial footage shows a bigger problem

Call it the mystery of the white bags. After they were found to be sprawling across acres of la…

16 months ago

Exclusive: US companies are increasingly shipping toxic waste to other countries, where some argue it poses a risk

US companies ship more than 1m tons of hazardous waste to other countries each year, …

A Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab investigation finds very high levels of lead and arsenic in homes near a factory processing US toxic waste

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Raquel Villarreal li…

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