200 Were To Be Lopped Off For Road Widening Pune: The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) western zone bench, Pune, stayed the Talegaon Dabhade Municipal Council’s decision to cut over 200 trees from Jijamata chowk to Talegaon station road, by way of adinterim relief on Monday.
The Himachal Environment and Scientific Technology Department has taken note of alleged violation of the Environment Protection Act by promoters of Maharshi Markendeshwar University (MMU) near Kumarhatti
China will tighten environmental legislation and force polluters to pay compensation following renewed blasts of toxic air, the country's top legislator said on Sunday. Zhang Dejiang said in a report to the ceremonial legislature's annual session that businesses were responsible for the environmental damage they caused and must be held to account. He said legal revisions were being prepared, but offered no specifics.
China will strengthen environmental-protection laws this year to ensure that polluters are held accountable for the damage they cause, the head of the nation’s legislature said. Laws will be revised
At the opening of an annual parliament meeting last week, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that China will "declare war on pollution. Almost all Chinese cities monitored for pollution last year failed
Out of the 74 cities that Beijing monitored, 71 had various degrees of problems, Wu Xiaoqing said at a news conference on the sidelines of the annual parliament session in Beijing. Only Haikou in the
Unscheduled power cuts in the city have resulted in a surge in the use of diesel generators. This has, in turn, led to a rise in air and noise pollution in several localities, residents say. Dealers
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of M/s Shiva Recycling Energy Vs. Raj. S.P.C. B. & Ors. dated 07/03/2014 regarding pollution caused by industry. The Tribunal
The slum area, known as Bhagat Singh Colony, adjacent to the sixth lane of Dwarakanagar, is considered both a boon and a bane. “Boon in the sense, a robber can never get away from here if at all he enters the colony. The slum-dwellers keep a close watch on the houses and they are awake till late in the night. We also enjoy their services in the form of domestic help and dhobi without any irregularities,” says Akella Venkata Purushotham, one of the old residents of the colony.
China on Wednesday declared a war against chronic pollution choking the booming nation, allocating about $35 billion for environmental protection this year to combat toxic smog that frequently engulfs
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