Vedanta got a Golden Peacock, almost
Award held back after activists accuse mining firm of violating green laws on june 13, Vedanta, one of the world
Award held back after activists accuse mining firm of violating green laws on june 13, Vedanta, one of the world
All owners dead except one after a trial lasting 25 years, a special court in Lucknow convicted the owners of a tannery for polluting river water. On June 2, the court sentenced the owners of East India Leather Company to six months
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it would pass orders in one week on an application by Chemplast Sanmar Limited seeking consent to operate its Cuddalore plant.
The first visit of bureaucrats to sponge iron units suspected of causing pollution was an eye-opener. A team
A Budget allocation of Rs 50 crore for Buddha Nullah will usher in a ray of hope for restoring the pristine existence of this stinking nullah. For the first time, the Punjab government has made an exclusive Budget allocation for the purging of the drain, contaminated largely by polluting industries.
The guidelines for locating industries along the river banks as recommended by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) will be in effect till the State Government approves Regional Plan 2011. The State Government on Monday filed an affidavit in this respect in Public Interest Litigation in a writ petition before High Court.
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna is proposing to convert the 22-kilometre Yamuna riverbank stretch into a biodiversity zone, seen by experts as a radical ecological solution to the dying river.
Ivory Coast sued Trafigura for dumping toxic waste THE High Court of Justice in London ruled that some testimonies against Dutch oil trading company accused of dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast will be heard in private. The ruling followed allegations that the company, Trafigura, was trying to influence witnesses. The people of Ivory Coast have sued Trafigura for US $160 million in
Simon Romero Claudia Albino, a washerwoman who earns about $3 a day and lives in a one-room hovel with her family in this bleak town of La Oroya in the Andes, might seem at first to have nothing to do with Ira Rennert, the reclusive New York billionaire who built one of the largest homes in the United States, an Italianate mansion sprawling over more than 66,000 square feet in the Hamptons.
European environment chiefs agreed new laws Thursday to crack down on acid pollution from heavy industries such as steel, power plants and refining, EU diplomats said. Existing power plants will have to comply with the new emissions standards by 2016, but countries can opt to phase the controls in between 2016 and the end of 2020, the diplomats said.
It has issued show cause notice to the plant VIRUDHUNAGAR: Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has found the chilly oil extract plant here guilty of polluting the environment. It has issued show cause notice to the plant seeking explanation as to why criminal action should not be initiated against it.
Giridih, June 19: The villagers of Giridih are firm. They will not allow construction of any sponge iron unit in the district as past experience has shown that industrialists do nothing to check the pollution caused by the plants.
THE World Bank will extend a $180-million loan to India for upgrading its polluting coal-fired power plants and bringing down carbon emissions.
Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc.
A complaint will be lodged with the police, says RDO Stern action: Revenue Department and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board officials re-sealed 11 dyeing and bleaching units that were in operation even after they were found violating an earlier closure order.
Giridih, June 15: Villagers in Mohanpur on the outskirts of the town today opposed the new project of Swati Sponge there on pollution ground. At the first mass-level hearing on the upcoming sponge iron plant, the residents also criticised the role of the state pollution control board on the issue.
New Delhi: Trying to distance itself from the controversial finance ministry report that recommended severe dilution of the environmental clearance process, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has said it had not asked for easing of environmental norms.
Giridih, June 14: After the district administration gave into public protests and scrapped a sponge iron plant project in Udanabad, it is now an NGO of Dhanbad that has joined the war against pollution caused by these units.
DURGAPUR, 14 JUNE: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has asked state-owned Durgapur Projects Limited to prevent pollution caused by its coke-oven plant by 21 June. If the company fails to follow the order within the stipulated timeframe, the plant would be closed down.