Thousands of workers are demanding Peru's government save their jobs at a shuttered metals smelter high in the Andes, even if it means delaying a cleanup at the plant that has turned their town into one of the most polluted places on earth.

The Goa State Pollution Control Board is in the process of categorising industries based on colour codes in a bid to have better control over these and to simplify its administrative work.

Jairam Calls For Emulating Beijing On Emission Control

Beijing: China has agreed to include India in a three-nation (China, Japan and South Korea) joint mechanism on climate control, minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday.

Jalandhar: Setting up of a large number of thermal plants can prove to be a curse for Punjab.

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Surat: The city of diamonds and textile may have earned the distinction of being one of the cleanest cities in the country, but it lags behind when it comes to keeping a check on industrial pollution.

Stalin criticises AIADMK Government for neglecting industrial growth

Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin looking at the machines installed at the factory of Gangotri Textiles Ltd., at SIPCOT Industrial Estate, in Perundurai, Erode on Monday.

Beijing, Aug. 20: More than 1,300 children have been sickened by lead poisoning in central China, the second such case involving a large number of children this month, state media said on Thursday.

The recommendation of NEERI and the P Ram Committee to attain zero liquid discharge by local dyeing units to save the Buddha Nullah has brought the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) back in action.

Sompeta, Aug. 18: Several fishermen, doctors and people

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government will have to do some explaining at the Forest and Environment Ministers

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