In Conakry, the Blacksmith Institute, along with the Blacksmith Guinea representative organization Centre D'Appui au Develeppement (CAD), is on the verge of beginning a new project to stop the importation of leaded gasoline and encourage the use of unleaded gas. The goal of this project is to end the use of leaded gasoline in Guinea via the enactment of a law banning the importation of leaded gasoline and by developing and implementing policies that will make the use of unleaded gasoline cost-effective and practical.

The objective of this project is to begin remediation of the radioactively contaminated site via partial removal of contaminated soil, reinforcement of the slope, and the introduction of vegetation to stem run-off. The project is to be coordinated by a local NGO called Sodeistivie-Team Work with the BI's support. The Sanitary Epidemiological Surveillance of the city of Magadan and the Magadan branch of the Russian State Committee of Emergency Situations have approved partial remediation of the site's hot spots, terracing the slope to slow water run-off, and reinforcing it by planting foliage.

Following a baseline research project in the area in 2004, Blacksmith, in cooperation with the local government, funded the installation in 2006 of a water treatment system in the village of Pyra (population 4,000), a settlement whose groundwater is highly polluted yet remains the sole source of drinking water. In the longer term, Blacksmith hopes to support local groups and authorities in the design of a large-scale remediation and pollution mitigation plan for the area.

Blacksmith Institute funded and played a major role in coordinating this initiative. With help from Yale University's School of Law and School of Forestry joint program and New York University's Environmental Law Program, the project brought together the Ministries of Environment, Health, Industry, and Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to draft an enforceable law that will prevent unregulated handling, importation and use of hazardous material. The law will serve to prevent and reduce any harm caused by hazardous chemicals to public health and the environment and improve control of importation, production, use and disposal of hazardous chemicals.

This town in Rajasthan is now analyzing solutions to remediate its groundwater contamination. Severely contaminated with cancerous dyes and chemicals from defunct industries, the drinking water has been rendered highly toxic. This stakeholders group is a significant attempt to design and implement a solution to this problem. The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute has been assigned the task of cleaning the water.