Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Pollution
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Sterlite moves SC against Madras HC order
Vedanta Group Co Was Told To Close Copper Smelting Plant For Environmental Hazards New Delhi: Sterlite Industries on Thursday moved the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court order that directed the company to shut down its copper smelting plant at Tuticorin for not complying with the environmental norms.
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Power unit at Naraj worries Forest department
BHUBANESWAR: The wildlife wing of the Forest department has raised concerns over the setting up of 1,000 mw thermal power plant proposed by Tata Power Company at Naraj. Its proximity to critical sites, impact of pollution on them as well as on the wildlife are issues the wildlife wing is worried about.
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Ecologists gun for Raid de Himalayas
Mandi: The high-profile Raid-de-Himalayas motor sport rally that reached today at Keylong in snowbound Lahaul-Spiti raised the ire of environmentalists, farmers and tribal writers.
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No pollution board relief for steel units
Solan: With the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) directing induction furnaces and steel units to get their non-hazardous slag treated through the Shiwalik Hazardous Waste Plant, investors resent that the board had made it compulsory to get this waste treated from the hazardous plant which was contrary to the laid guidelines. Conversely, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had laid dow
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Sterlite gets breather in Tuticorin row
While continuing its stay on the Madras high court order for closing of Sterlite, a subsidiary of MNC Vedanta in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Monday admitted the company
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Posco ball in Ramesh court after panels split verdict
THE Posco review panel on Monday submitted a "split verdict" on the South Korean steel maker's Orissa project. Although the dominant view was for revoking of environmental and coastal regulation zone clearances, government sources said that a reworking of the proposal could clear the way for the project.
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SC pulls up Sterlite, extends relief for copper smelter plant
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the London-listed Vedanta group company to give details about the steps being taken by it to comply with the environmental norms at Sterlite
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JCBs overrun Mumbai as residents struggle with pollution
Those big, mean, yellow machines are usually called excavators, forklifts, cranes and diggers, but in this part of the world, they are simply known as JCBs, though no one knows what that stands for. Latest statistics from Maharashtra
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SC allows Sterlite to operate unit till December
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has extended the stay on the order of the Madras High Court with regard to Sterlite Industries till the second week of December. A Bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale directed the respondents to file their replies in four weeks and the rejoinder thereafter in two weeks. The Bench also asked the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to file the
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CJM dismisses Ranthambore noise pollution case
JAIPUR: The chief judicial magistrate at Sawai Madhopur on Tuesday dismissed a petition alleging violation of wildlife, environment and civic laws during the wedding of celebrity couple Russell Brand and Katy Perry held recently at Ranthambore. The petition was filed by Ranthambore Park Bachao Samiti through its president and local lawyer Akshay Sharma.