Dumping News

Washington - Washington launched yet another trade investigation against China on Wednesday, claiming the country dumps wooden cabinetry into the US market, competing unfairly with domestic producers.

The U.S. is investigating whether manufacturers in Canada, China, Greece, India, Korea and Turkey are dumping large-diameter welded pipe into U.S. markets or are being unfairly subsidized by their governments, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday.

San Francisco - Nevada will reimburse San Francisco $400,000 for the cost of caring for 24 homeless indigents who were sent to the city with one-way bus tickets from a state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas.

Sochi - With 100 days to go, Sochi, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics in February, has run into a few almost insurmountable problems, leaving many to wonder just how prepared Russia is to host the Games, and what they are doing to make venues safe.

Sydney - A Sydney man caught dumping waste just outside the city on numerous occasions will need at least 60 years to pay off his fines.

Sydney - At a press conference today, Salvation Army Chaplain Major Robert Sneller urged the community to stop dumping unusable donations and rubbish outside Salvo stores this holiday season.

The autocrats in Europe have decided consumers need protecting from wicked Chinese businessmen who will sell them quality products at bargain basement prices. Guess who's going to pay?

The British Columbia capital of Victoria has dumped, for years, tens of millions of gallons of raw sewage every day into the waters separating Washington state and Vancouver Island.

In excess of 19 tonnes of highly radioactive cooper and cobalt has been dumped into a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rather than being properly disposed of, six people have been arrested.

A man who allegedly dumped more than 70 dead dogs, cats and other animals from a northern Virginia pet crematorium on national forest lands in West Virginia has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

RCMP say they may order the evacuation of a small portion of Surrey to clean up a site strewn with containers of toxic chemicals thought to be linked to illicit drug labs.