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Letter to and press cuttings about Michael Meacher, Environment Minister.

Correspondence and papers on dispute at Grain Power Station, Isle of Grain, Kent, between Babcock and Wilcox management and staff regarding handling of man-made mineral fibre insulation.

Notes on groundwater pollution from the Rainbow Factory in Cyprus.

Research carried out by Dalton for Labour Research Department on merits of hard versus soft toilet paper.

• Annual report, minutes and papers of the Pesticides Forum, 1999-2000
• Pesticide Action Network UK: Review, 2001; Catalogue of lists of pesticides, 2001

Correspondence and papers on landfill. Includes lists of landfill site operators in UK.

• report of review by Health and Safety Executive into management of health and safety and the standards of risk control at premises run by Atomic Weapons Establishment plc
• press cuttings on safety at atomic weapons plants

Correspondence and papers on noise induced hearing loss in commercial vehicle drivers. Includes transcript of World in Action programme ‘Long Distance Lorry Drivers’.

Correspondence and papers on Alan Meale, Environment Minister.

Correspondence and papers on employment tribunal of Sarah Friday against South West Trains Ltd. Sarah Friday was the National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers health and safety representative at Waterloo railway station. Includes:
• decision of employment tribunal
• photographs
• press coverage
• correspondence and notes
• article by Dalton on Friday for Hazards magazine

Papers on Substitution of Organic Solvents in Printing project (SUBSPRINT).

Reports on the relationship between industrial relations and the environment in Germany, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, Denmark and the UK. Also includes details of a textile eco labelling scheme.

Includes:

• print-outs from ATDSR website
• public health assessment of Woodstock Municipal landfill, Illinois

Correspondence and papers on explosion at Nypro UK Ltd chemical plant at Flixborough in 1974. Includes:

• report of Court of Inquiry into the Flixborough Disaster
• press releases
• text of lecture at Imperial College, London by K. Gugan on Flixborough explosion and inquiry

• Reports and newsletters of organisations campaigning against Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd, a worldwide mining company with interests in metals, manufacturing, chemicals, engineering, construction and the exploitation of oil, gas and uranium.
• Report into operation of Rio Tinto plc’s Capper Pass smelting plant, Hull, written by David Russell, Senior Regional Solicitor to the Transport and General Workers Union.
• Copy of chapter on Rio Tinto Zinc's Bristol smelting plant from ' River of Tears: the Rise of Rio Tinto Zinc Mining Company' by Richard West, 1972.