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 …
A report `Rajasthan Action Plan on Climate Change' drafted recently by various departments of the state government with the help of TERI has also pointed out that the quality of ground water was a major issue The quality of ground water is a major concern for the state. At least …
Ever since Rachel Carson's famous expose of pesticides, chlorine and its chemical allies have been on the hit-list of environmentalist. DDT was banned in 1972, followed by PCBs in 1978. Two decades later, CFCs were sentenced to a phase-out for violating the sacred ozone-space. And now, with the recent US …
The pulp and paper industry is the world's second largest consumer of chlorine and the greatest source of toxic organochlorine discharges directly into the waterways. Although dozens of mills across the world are now producing high-quality, bright paper using totally chlorine-free (TCF) technology, most of the world's producers have yet …
A domestic but prolific generator of organochlorines is the homely dry-cleaning business. Over 90 per cent of alndry-'ters use chlorine-based perchloroethylene (perc) to clean clothes. Some 3 million pounds of this highly toxic chemical are annually by the industry in the US and Canada alone. Dry-cleaners are the single largest …
The US Environmental Protection Agency is likely to cut down or ban the production of chlorine and compounds containing it. However, many scientists believe that even were manufacture of chlorine-containing chemicals to be prohibited, their creation would not cease. Nature produces many of them, more than 1500, with more being …
Paper companies: 55 mills now produce totally chlorine free, high-quality bleached pulp. Province of Ontario: Pulp mills must eliminate organachlorine discharges by 2002. British Columbia: Pulp mills here must eliminate grganochlorine discharges by 2002. Sweden National: Goal to end toxic discharges from-Ifie-company pulp mills by 2000. International Joint Commission on …
In May of 1993 the British medical journal The Lancet published a paper by a Danish researcher that linked a global decline in sperm counts in healthy men over the past 50 years to accumulation of estrogenlike compounds, mainly organochlorines, in the environment. While enviros grabbed the study as another …
