EPA to relax pollution rules for utilities
In a victory for energy producers, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed relaxing air pollution rules to make it easier for utilities to upgrade and expand their coal-burning power plants.
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Mecon's answer to Kolkata floods
Monsoon is not quite pleasant in Kolkata if you have to step out of your home . Normal life is mostly hit by water logging. However, soon Kolkatains will get respite from this perennial problem, says
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EPA Proposal Could Undermine Clean Air Act
The Bush administration unveiled its long awaited, and much criticized, plan to weaken the new source review provisions of the federal Clean Air Act. The proposal, which includes lower emissions
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Restore our damaged oceans, commission urged
"We have long thought of the oceans' bounty as limitless, and of the oceans' capacity to absorb waste as infinite. We were wrong. Today, the oceans are in serious trouble," Denis Hayes told the U.S.
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American scientists win 11th Blue Planet Prize
The Asahi Glass Foundation announced it has awarded two American scientists with the 11th Blue Planet Prize, an international environmental award. The winners were Harold A. Mooney, a Stanford
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Rise in sea level to inundate 18 pc land in Bangladesh by 2100
Sea level rise in Bangladesh will inundate 18 per cent of the country by the year 2100, if no special protective measures like embankments are take. According to the estimates of United Nations Inter
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Kolkata makes a monumental blunder
Despite a report by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board suggesting that the Victoria Memorial Hall might turn into another dilapidated historical monument in the next 25 years, no steps have been
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Initiative to recycle PET bottles
A business initiative called Plastic Recycling Solutions (PRS) has been started to convert the whole collection chain into a business venture. An entire collection chain is being put in place by the
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Position of tribals sparks heated debate
With the final notification of the Kudremukh National Park, the position of tribals in the National Park exercise has thrown up a heated debate. At least three major "approaches" to the vexed issue
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Ministry unhappy over slow progress of rural projects
The Union Rural Development Ministry has expressed displeasure at the slow implementation of rural projects by States despite adequate funds by the
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Gujarat lignite mine project to kick off by Jan
Gujarat Mineral Development corporation's Rs 200 crore Surkha lignite mine project in Bhavnagar district will commence operations by January
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Rice units polluting city
For the past 10 years, residents of Saiduba Compound, in Chamarajapet, Karnataka, have been complaining to the BMP about the puffed rice manufacturing units in the neighbourhood that are causing
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EU divided on reform of common fisheries policy
Stack divisions emerged between European Union governments over controversial proposals for a fundamental reform of the common fisheries policy. European Commission hopes of pushing through the
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Don't build, buy built houses
The Supreme Court on May 7 passed an order to close down all mining operators within five km of the periphery of National Capital Territory. The next haring on the issue is scheduled for July 7. The
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Minister's charge embarrasses Government
The Madhya Pradesh state government is in an embarrassing position on the issue of illegal mining and quarrying in the Chambal National Park in Morena district. The minister-in-charge of the district
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Afghanistan's environment
As dusk falls in Kabul, the streets fill with a choking gray smoke, despite the city's near-complete lack of industry. Nearly every family in this capital of one million is cooking its evening meal
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Where hunger stalks
Malawi, a densely populated country slightly smaller than Pennsylvania, is facing its worst hunger crisis in more than 50 years. About 70 per cent of its 11 million people are in desperate need of
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Rs 161 billion to be spent on poverty alleviation
Pakistan finance minister Shaukat Aziz said that the government would spend Rs 161 billion on poverty reduction in fiscal 2002-03 indicating that government was giving priority to improve the lives
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Chewing tobacco faces total ban
The Centre has decided to enact a new law to ban the production, sale and consumption of all forms of chewing tobacco, according to the Union Health minister, C.P.
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US EPA seen proposing more chemical plant security
The Environmental Protection Agency will soon propose rules directing 15,000 of the nation's chemical, water and waste-treatment facilities to size up their vulnerability to terrorist attack, a trade