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 …
The European Union parliament has passed an amended version of the registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals (reach) bill. The controversial bill has the industry against the labour unions and environmental groups. If enacted, reach will force businesses to disclose the amount and kind of chemicals it uses, encourage a …
LAND is equal to real estate in Mumbai. Any land, even when poisoned. In Dahisar, Mumbai's northernmost suburb, it is construction boom time, even by Mumbai's dizzying real estate standards. Sites for large residential and commercial complexes are selling sooner than you can say buy. The USP: proximity to both …
Global chemicals major Dow Chemicals Company got a shot in the arm with a ruling of the Michigan Supreme Court on July 13, 2005. A lawsuit filed by residents of areas along the Tittabawassee river near Dow's plant, where high levels of dioxins have been found, demanded a medical monitoring …
• More than 1,500 new chemicals are introduced annually the world over, that is, more than 4 chemicals daily • Total number of chemicals known to exist
In a violent uprising against industrial pollution, thousands of farmers in eastern China's Huaxi village clashed with nearly 3,000 police personnel before dawn on April 10, 2005, when the latter tried to remove blockades that had closed down chemical plants in the vicinity. Unconfirmed reports said two elderly protestors were …
the Oswal Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited's plant , located at Paradeep on the Orissa coast, recently got its seventh closure notice from the Orissa Pollution Control Board (opcb). Only one of these notices, served in the past four years, asked for a partial closure. The rest ordered complete closure. But …
classification of dyesM Dyes can be classified according to their chemical structure or according to their use. However, classifications vary from agency to agency though there are some fundamental categories that are common to all. According to the CPCB, there are approximately a million known dyes and dye intermediates out …
What do industry and consumers look for in a dye? Permanence: the colour is unaffected when exposed to light, washing, chlorine or ozone. This is why dye chemistry produces dyes that last forever. The result of their success: outstanding permanence, but resistance to treatment or removal in wastewater treatment systems. …
At one level, colour is an extremely abstract entity: an electromagnetic wave. But in the hurly-burly world of human existence, colour gets to be introduced in objects usually to improve aesthetic value. The desired effect is achieved by incorporating into a substance
about 4,000 villagers, including 2,000 women, attacked an oxalic acid plant of Star Oxochem Private Limited (sopl) at Chipri village in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district on January 1, 2005. They destroyed 18 four wheelers, torched four imported cars and smashed several computers and pieces of furniture: a loss of nearly Rs …
Tata Chemicals and Gujarat Heavy Chemicals have pitched in their mite behind the effort to save the whale shark Aunique corporate-ngo partnership in coastal Gujarat has succeeded in giving a new lease of life to the spectacular whale shark, the world's largest fish, which was being poached almost to extinction …
An antenna facilitates the communication process by converting electrical current into electromagnetic waves and vice versa. The electromagnetic spectrum includes radiowaves, microwaves, heat waves, ultraviolet waves, X-rays and gamma rays. Thanks to a new research, light has become the latest addition to this list. Researchers at the US-based Boston College, …
Waste can be broadly classified as hazardous and non-hazardous. Globally, the trade in hazardous waste is governed through the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal. In India, hazardous wastes are regulated under the Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 1989, further amended …
two years after 114 countries decided to minimise the adverse effects of chemicals on human health and environment by 2020, much work still remains to be done to achieve the goal. While government delegates and representatives of international institutions and non-governmental organisations (ngo) made some progress in discussions at the …
Logjam: A federal appeals court has blocked logging of trees scorched in one of the US's largest wildfires. It is unlikely that the dead trees can be harvested before rotting. The court order came after a two-year old court battle. The 2002 blaze that burnt 202,343 hectares in southwestern Oregon …
an encouraging precedent in environmental protection has been set by a Supreme Court (sc) committee of experts in a case involving pollution caused by a chemical plant. The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (scmc) has asked state government agencies to clean up the hazardous waste dumped by the defunct Hema Chemicals …
the question of whether India can manage the production of harmful chemicals sustainably has cropped up due to a recent developemnt in Europe. The eu has proposed its chemical regulation, reach, an acronym for registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals. The draft legislation, awaiting the approval of the eu parliament …
how planets form: Elongated dust clouds, rather than fluffy blobs of dust, are the seeds of planet formation. This is the finding of experiments conducted by J
while the world celebrated the coming into force of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (pops) on May 17, 2004, India witnessed a strong protest against it. The Indian Chemical Manufacturers Association (icma), a major stakeholder in the convention, boycotted an important workshop on pops organised on the same …
