Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Houston BP and Transocean lacked clear guidelines for key tests to ensure that the ill-fated Macondo well was safely sealed before it ruptured and triggered the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, US safety investigators said. The preliminary report from the US Chemical Safety Board, to be delivered at a public hearing …
DONKAMOKAM: Sensation prevailed in and around Boithalangso area in west Karbi Anglong when people found burned oil flowing along the Barapani River. Soon the news of oil spilling started spreading the entire area where Boithalangso Police necessitated to alert and warn not to throw any burning chemicals into the river. …
Ahmedabad: Pollution control vessel, a dedicated oil spill recovery vessel, second of its class in Asia-Pacific region, will be commissioned by Indian Coast Guard in Surat on July 20. The 94-metre-long vessel with displacement of 3,300 tonnes is a highly specialized ship fitted with top-of-shelf technologically advance pollution response equipment …
Drawing India into the South China Sea muddle, China has put up a Vietnamese petroleum block under exploration by an Indian oil firm for global bidding. While the move was meant to counter a Hanoi legislation asserting the country’s control over offshore areas and islands, which Beijing considers disputed, it …
Surat: Pristine beaches of Umargam and Nargol are raising a stink once again. Oil slick, which coagulated as black balls, has once again hit the coast, leaving fisher folk jittery. The beaches affected in the past four days include Nargol, Tadgam, Maroli, Saronda, Umargam and Daman. “The slick has kept …
Scottish drinks company Whyte and MacKay has been fined £9,000 after a spill from its distillery in Invergordon polluted the Cromarty Firth at Saltburn Pier, said the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). The drinks company pled guilty to carrying on a controlled activity liable to cause pollution of the water …
Brazil's National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, is unlikely to fine U.S. oil major Chevron Corp. CVX +0.73% more than 50 million Brazilian reais ($24.5 million) for its role in a November oil spill off Brazil's coast, ANP Director Magda Chambriard said Monday. The ANP is expected to release its report …
Yeosu, South Korea: The massive oil spill in ’95 that caused destruction of sea life in the waters of Yeosu, is a thing of the past. Seventeen years later, Yeosu’s coastal waters are brimming with marine life as the city hosts ‘The Living Ocean and Coast: Diversity of Resources and …
More than 2 y have passed since the BP–Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, yet we still have little understanding of its ecological impacts. Examining effects of this oil spill will generate much-needed insight into how shoreline habitats and the valuable ecological services they provide (e.g., shoreline …
The alternative alignment (4A) for the Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project without cutting across the Adams Bridge or Ram Setu is not economically and ecologically feasible, according to a report of the expert committee headed by R. K. Pachauri submitted by the Centre in the Supreme Court. The committee was constituted …
U.S. oil companies will be allowed to drill in more areas of the Gulf of Mexico but won only limited access to the Arctic under the final version of the Obama Administration's five year drilling plan that was slammed by industry and some environmentalists. The 2012-2017 plan calls for three …
Ecuadorean plaintiffs have filed a second lawsuit outside the Andean country, this time in Brazil, in a bid to enforce an $18 billion court ruling against U.S. oil company Chevron for polluting the Amazon, their lawyers said on Wednesday. The 2011 judgment against Chevron is one of the biggest rulings …
Increasing discharge of pollutants and booming offshore human activity, such as oil exploration, are worsening China's fragile marine environment, according to an annual report released by the country’s ocean watchdog. The severely polluted sea area surged to 44,000 square kilometers in China in 2011 from 25,000 sq km in 2003, …
Scientists are trying to find out why 119 bottlenose dolphins became stranded and died along the Texas coast in recent months, looking at possibilities ranging from algae blooms to oil pollution. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declared that the stranding of 123 dolphins in Texas between November and …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to quantify the environmental damage caused by the sinking of the Panama-owned vessel MV Rak, which sank off the coast of Mumbai last year. Not only did the sinking of MV Rak result in a massive …
NEW DELHI, 10 JUNE: The National Green Tribunal has sought replies from the Centre and the owner of Panama-flagged cargo vessel MV Rak, which sank off Mumbai coast last year, on a plea for compensation for damages caused to the marine ecology due to an oil spill. The tribunal issued …
Keeping in mind the rising incidents of oil spills around Mumbai, the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) has now invited global bids to outsource the work of oil spill response facilities for a period of five years. The oil spill response facilities will help the Mumbai Port Trust and Jawaharlal Nehru …
China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Monday that the country will start amassing a compensation fund to be used in cases of marine oil pollution from July this year. According to a regulation jointly issued by the MOF and the Ministry of Transport (MOT), receivers or agencies of mineral oil …
The captain and the navigation officer of a container ship that smashed into a reef off a popular New Zealand holiday resort were jailed on Friday for causing the country's worst environmental disaster in decades. The two men, captain Mauro Balomaga and navigation officer Leonil Relon, both Filipino nationals, were …
Robot "fish" developed by European scientists to improve pollution monitoring moved from the lab to the sea in a test at the northern Spanish port of Gijon on Tuesday. The developers hope the new technology, which reduces the time it takes to detect a pollutant from weeks to seconds, will …
