Public Due Consideration on New U.S.-Mexico Border Toxic Waste Site Proposal

The latest threat from a proposed toxic waste site apparently is a matter of several miles southwest of the Sonora state border with Arizona , not far from the beach resort of Puerto Peñasco, on a 100-hectare private property near online casino Mexico Route 2, which connects the border town of Sonoyta with the city of Caborca . Watchdogs and whistleblowers said recently that Mexico”s federal Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (Semarnat) gave approval of an impact statement and an operating permit for a US$4.5 million confinement facility to the private, Hermosillo-based Centro de Gestión Integral de Residuos S.A. de C.V.

You can”t prove any of that by the books, because as is so often the unfortunate case, Semarnat”s Internet

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The World in Focus | Analysis column Thirty-five years after the US authorities officially launched the ten liberal principles that were to