No emission-related affliction around NTPC Kayamkulam plant: Study
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 25 A
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 25 A
SHILLONG, July 20
PARADIP: The House panel on environment expressed dissatisfaction over inability of Paradip Port Trust, IOCL, Paradeep Phosphates Ltd in controlling industrial pollution in the area.
Lead is found in products like water pipes, printing ink, paints and even Ayurvedic medicines, apart from battery cells posing hazards, says Uma Rajarathnam
Mumbai The state environment department plans to urge the Centre to regulate the sale of colours next Holi, the move following a report in The Indian Express that such colours contain heavy metals.
If the industry wants to survive in an environmentally conscious world, the search for chlorine alternatives must go hand in hand with product stewardship
Fuel from plastic wastes and chemicals from grains: researchers in UK experiment with innovative substitutes
New rules to give the European Commission powers to supervise the safety of nuclear installations, safeguard funds to 'decommission' nuclear reactors and set a timetable for burying nuclear waste are
In its effort to tap non-conventional energy sources, the Tamil Nadu Government is soon going to set up in Chennai a 15-MW power plant that would use vegetable waste as fuel. The unit would come up
At the end of the Fergana VAlley (Kyrgyzstan) stands a Soviet-era uranium processing plant whose estimated 2 million cubic meters of radioactive waste represent a potential environmental disaster. It
an effort to clean up Guwahati city : The Assam Chief Minister Mr Prafulla Kumar Mahanta formally laid the foundation of a 10 MW thermal power plant "Waste to Energy Project" at Sarusajai in Lokhra
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has asked the federal government to verify newspaper reports that it pland to bury nuclear waste in the Thar desert, a move that could have enormous
More than half a million tonnes of garbage and solid waste annually generated in Punjab's three biggest cities - Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar - will be used to generate additional electricity in
In the midst of the state's worsening electricity crunch, Northern California's Honey Lake biomass power plant closed Tuesday due to a lack of wood waste to burn for fuel.The loss of the 30-megawatt
The US Senate voted yesterday to require that nuclear waste be shipped from power plants around the country to a site in Nevada as early as 2007 once a permanent burial site in the western state is
Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant said on Wednesday it would start operating a new unit for reprocessing and conditioning low and intermediate level radioactive waste this week.The long-delayed
Government has enhanced the outlay for energy recovery from urban and agricultural waste from Rs 4 crore in 1998-99 to Rs 12 crore in 1999-2000. This will give a boost to projects promoted through
Energy Development Ltd. (EDL), Australia is establishing a Rs 140 crore energy project to generate 15MW of power from municipal solid waste (MSW) at Perungudi near
Toxic Links (TL), a network of environmental groups working on the issue of toxic pollution said that the waste-to-energy plant being set up at Perungudi near Chennai was both expensive and clearly
Tinsukia Municipal Board, with the active help of the district administration, has gone a long way towards installing an ambitious project to dispose of the solid waste in a highly scientific way to