Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
This unpublished CPCB report on “Mercury balance in Thermal Power Plants in Singrauli” received by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) through RTI is exclusively available here. An attempt was made in this study to investigate the fate of mercury during burning of coal in thermal plants and to prepare …
bricks make homes, but brick kilns contribute to pollution. Though many states in India have regulations in place, the growing demand for bricks is increasing pollution. Fly ash is a byproduct of all coal-based power plants. In fact, India produces about 75-80 million tonnes of fly ash every year. A …
fine-particle pollution from power plants, especially those using coal, is responsible for the death of 30,000 people every year in the us . This was stated in a report entitled Death, Disease and Dirty Power prepared by Boston-based Clean Air task Force, an environmental group. The group is campaigning for …
With another drought looming over Gujarat, industries have been banned from drawing water from dams and reservoirs in Saurashtra, Kutch and north Gujarat. The Union government is planning to introduce several measures in the automobile policy to curtail the import of old cars, said Manohar Joshi, Union industry minister. In …
canada's greenhouse gas emissions, in 1998, were 19 per cent more than the target set under the Kyoto Protocol, the country's environment ministry has revealed. The ministry says that emissions from the electricity sector are 28 per cent above the 1990 levels and have continued to grow as coal is …
albeit accidentally, a government department has prepared a review on the performance of electrostatic precipitators ( esp s) installed in thermal power stations to control air pollution, which accidentally became an environmental audit as well. It shows that the suspen ded particulate matter ( spm ) levels in emissions from …
a team of scientists at Ohio University in the us is working on technology that uses algae, sunlight and the natural process of photosynthesis to absorb carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) from the combustion of coal. The result: reduced greenhouse gas emissions. co 2 has been identified as the …
it is an example that many industries in India will find hard to emulate. The successful run of a power plant in Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, has proved that commitment of employees and their wholehearted approach towards building a green environment can even make an 50-year old coal-based power plant run without …
the Manipur government has renewed its interest in setting up the 1,500 mw Tipaimukh multi-purpose project on the Barak at an estimated Rs 2,899 crore (at July 1995 levels). The project was held up due to the agitation led by R K Priyabrata Singh, chairman of the Manipur-based Action Committee …
local farmers and residents of Sipat in the Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh have registered a massive protest against the location of a 3,000 megawatt super thermal power station in the locality. They allege that the project will result in largescale utilisation of irrigable land, diversion of water from paddy …
researchers have come upon a new source of acid rain seabird urine. The discharged waste contains ammonia, which also damages plants. A study by Sarah Wanless of the British government's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Banchory in Scotland has shown that ammonia concentrations in the air near seabird colonies …
smog sends 53,000 people to the hospital each summer and triggers more than six million asthma attacks in the eastern United States, according to estimates released by clean air activists. Smog created in the summer is called ground-level ozone, the main culprit in what environmentalists believe is a public health …
the proposed 3,000 megawatt capacity coal-based power plant of the National Thermal Power Corporation ( ntpc ) at Sipat in Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh, has run into a controversy. At the heart of the matter is the environmental clearance given by the Union ministry of environment and forests ( mef ), …
INCREASING power production will have a disastrous effect on the environment, said G P Singh, chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (upseb) at a seminar on thermal power held in Lucknow recently. He added that this is happening even though environmental appraisal has now become a statutory obligation …
A notice has been issued by the Karnataka High Court to the ministry of environment and forests (MEF) on a contempt petition filed by Janajagriti Samiti, an environment support group. The Samiti has alleged that the MEF violated the court order by not taking into consideration the report of Danish …
in may 1998, the ministry of environment and forests had issued a notification for conservation of the top soil of agricultural land. The draft Gazette notification (No.DL33004/98), dated May 22, 1998, read that no person shall excavate the top soil of agricultural land within 50 km radius of a coal …
The Delhi High Court has said that it will pass orders to shut down the Indraprastha Thermal Power plant in Delhi if immediate steps are not taken for treating effluents being discharged into the Yamuna river. Chief metropolitan magistrate R K Gauba issued the warning while hearing a 11-year-old petition …
The Supreme Court (SC) reserved its verdict on whether a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe should be ordered on Rs 4,500-crore Cogentrix power project in Karnataka. The project was cleared by the Karnataka government. Earlier, the Karnataka High Court had directed a CBI probe into awarding of power projects …
Bloody clashes took place between police and demonstrators, who were protesting against the construction of a new power plant. The new coal-fired power plant was due to be built in Pracuab Khiri Khan province, south of the resort town of Hua Hin, by a us firm Gulf Electric. The clashes …
