Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Kolkata: For all those worried over the impact of a possible hounding of The Dow Chemical Company on foreign investment flows to India, rest assured! Dow itself has no intention of scaling down its proposed expansion plans for the country in the wake of fresh pressure building up on the …
This briefing illustrates how HFC-23 projects under the CDM are working directly against the objectives of the UNFCCC and the Montreal Protocol, which is working to phase out HCFCs. HFC-23 emissions are clearly best addressed through direct measures outside the CDM. Setting the demand for the majority of CDM credits …
Two days after Chief Minister Narendra Modi embarrassed UPA chief Sonia Gandhi over the 1984 Union Carbide leak incident, the BJP and Opposition Congress here engaged in a slanging match over US company Dow Chemicals
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has decided to seek directions from the central government on whether to continue with the implementation of the agreement between Dow Chemical Company and the state-owned Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL). Minister of state for petrochemicals Saurabh Patel told TOI,
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is starting to show its reservations on whether to continue implementing the agreement between Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL), a state PSU, and Dow Chemicals Company, reached in April 2008 to set up a Rs 600-crore plant to produce chloromethane. If senior …
United States President Barack Obama says he needs to know whose ass he should kick in the case of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He wants those responsible to pay for the damage — to the people and the environment. The victims of the Bhopal gas …
CHINSURAH, 8 JUNE: A day after the country saw the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict being delivered, villagers in Haripal block of Hooghly got quite a scare, after many fell ill, alleging that gas emitted from a local factory, Himadri Chemicals, led to the incident. They staged a demonstration complaining that …
11 Chemical Units Had Been Sealed For Dumping Effluents Into Lake Ahmedabad: The dreams of people in east Ahmedabad to have a lake similar to that in Vastrapur and Kankaria have now been immersed in polluted waters. A couple of days ago, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) authorities tried to fill …
Simple methods to monitor pollution levels evolved 200 units in the BBN area operate without a valid licence SHIMLA: The surroundings of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial areas in Himachal could be another Bhopal in the making if the ill-planned toxic units are not discouraged in time; stated a joint group of NGOs, …
KOLKATA, 12 MAY: The perception that Bengalis are intelligent because they eat fish may ebb away soon. Next time when a child fails an examination, a youth commits suicide because of depression; people get more agitated, or suffer from Parkinson
LUCKNOW: In a significant development, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), on Monday, ordered 25 agro-waste based paper industries in the state to stop the process of chemical pulping, a move that could lead to closure of these units. Chemical pumping happens to be a crucial process under which a …
It took 10 years for the pollution load of industry to double, and then it took just three more years for this to rise by 50 per cent Sunil K Sinha / April 6, 2010, 0:30 IST An important outcome of the economic liberalisation and changes in industrial policy initiated …
In the last decade, rising and volatile energy prices coupled with increasing concern about climate change and growing support for action on energy and environmental issues has driven a surge of corporate environmental commitments. Energy efficiency has emerged as a key component of these commitments. Leading firms that give greater …
Tata Chemicals plant in Haldia turned into a battlefield today as the workers of the Citu and Inttuc clashed with each other over the issues pertaining to a month-long strike, which the Citu workers are observing at the Tata plant. A Trinamul Congress worker was shot at while two others …
The state industry and commerce minister, Mr Nirupam Sen, today said in the Assembly that the Union government is conducting a survey on the environmental hazards before giving clearance to set up a chemical hub at Nayachar. He said this while answering a question of CLP leader Dr Manas Bhuinya. …
THE Gujarat chemical industry, which is found to be generating the highest quantity of hazardous waste, has now cut down on its production. The move followed Gujarat Pollution Control Board
