<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of News item titled “Wagholi residents hit the roads”, Appearing in the Pune Mirror dated 11.02.2024 Vs Maharashtra
<font class="UCASE">the </font> Union government has shut down 125 highly polluting industries across the country while forcing 1,261 such units to install the pollution control facilities, according to a report. The ministry of environment and forests has identified about 1,551 large and medium industries in the 17 categories of highly polluting industries. Nearly 165 of them are still in process of installing the requisite facilities to control pollution, said the ministry's annual report.<br>
<img src="../files/images/20071031/30.jpg" align="left" /><font class="UCASE">T</font>he antibiotics we consume are now being found in effluents discharged by industrial estates in Andhra Pradesh. Shockingly, the quantities are not minuscule. Researchers who collected samples and then analysed them say the amount of antibiotics they detected has never been reported anywhere else in the world.
Agriculture, the mainstay of Chhattisgarh's economy, is getting a battering from two sides
If the invitation letter was anything to go by, the organizers of the International Conference on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises seemed in dead earnest. The card quoted a World Bank report.
<img src="../files/images/20071031/34.jpg" align="left" /><b>Regulation has not worked for drug industry</b><br>
<img src="../files/images/20071031/37_1.jpg" align="left" /><b>Rich producers, users must pay for clean-up</b> <br>
Outsourcing polluting processes is common in pharmaceuticals, a fact admitted by both industry and regulators. M Narayana Reddy, president of Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association (BDMA) and owner of Virchow Chemicals, says outsourcing keeps profit margins high. "We at Virchow do not outsource. My profit is a third of what others earn by outsourcing polluting processes,' he adds.
T he year 2006 will go down as environment's watershed year. This is not because this year we have had extraordinary success in environmental management; there was also no environmental disaster <i>per se</i> . This year must be remembered because the task of environmental management has come to be even more contested and even more challenged.
India has the uncomfortable honour of being one of the most polluted countries in the world with 13 of its cities on that list, and the national capital prominently on it. An alarming number of school
Shereen Bhan speaks to Sterlite Copper's CEO P Ramnath about the escalation of protests in Tuticorin against the company's plant. <iframe width="610" height="415" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LuCLE3opbgU"
