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FIRST AIR TEST FOR TOXIC CONTAMINATION IN MEXICO SHOWS DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN EVERY BREATHE TAKEN BY PEMEX NEIGHBORS
Bucket Brigade
April 13th, 2006
A sample of the air breathed daily under 'low' pollution conditions in neighborhoods around a PEMEX refinery has revealed for the first time ever in Mexico that dangerous levels of toxic chemicals are endangering the health of thousands of people. For the first time in Mexico, independent tests by PEMEX watchdog group APETAC and the international group Global Community Monitor, have supplied real evidence offsite of serious toxic exposure from petrochemical operations.

Testing their own air
by Dina CappielloHouston Chronicle
March 6th, 2006
Air monitoring? Scant. Pollutions laws? Weak. In the shadow of one oil refinery, The 'Bucket Brigade' is measuring for the first time what resident are breathing

Pemex Suspends Release of Gases
by Graciela Gómez GuerreroEl Liberal del Sur
February 10th, 2006
The NGO Apetac was delayed by the surprise cessation of toxic dumping by the facilities.

Experts from the United States Monitor Contamination
by Graciela Gomez GuerreroEl Liberal del Sur
February 9th, 2006
It is the industries duty to be cleaner, and the duty of the government to establish a regulatory framework with standards set at a level that has been verified to have no impact on the population. The system should focus on reduction of raw materials into the atmosphere.

Air tests obtained in zones with contaminating industries
February 8th, 2006
Specialists from the US enterprise Global Community Monitor arrived in the South Zone in order to carry-out air tests in the municipals of Coatzacoalcos, New World congregation, Minatitlán and Nanchital.

Epidemiological Study Begins
February 3rd, 2006
In New World congregation, a census of the population is underway. The census is being conducted in order to know the chemical, physical, mechanical and psychosocial agents in relation to industrial enterprises, among them Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), that contaminate the environment.




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