Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ujjwal Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/01/2025. An application was registered on the basis of a news item titled "1 Kodo poisoning behind elephant deaths in MPs Bandhavgarh All you need to know" …
What would you say of an industry that takes common salt and turns it into one of the most environmentally deadly substances we know of today, namely chlorine? And what if in its production process it uses yet another deadly substance, mercury? We are talking about India's caustic-chlorine industry. Centre …
See Score Card Raw material sourcing phase To rate the companies on the raw material sourcing phase, grp used the following indicators: the quality of input salt, transportation of salt, self-sourcing of water (water harvesting) and the use of renewable and clean fuels. The Indian caustic-chlorine industry has performed poorly …
Pondicherry-based Chemfab Alkalis Ltd (cal) has been rated as the greenest caustic-chlorine company in India. With an overall score of 46.7 per cent, it has been given the Three Leaves Award. Set up in 1985 by Krishnamurthy Rao, a technical expert, cal set the trend by going in for membrane …
Although there has been a belated shift from the polluting mercury cell technology to the membrane cells, mercury pollution in India is still very high. India does not produce mercury and relies completely on imports. Between 1998-2001, the annual mercury imports stood at 170-190 tonnes, which is 10 per cent …
It’s a Catch-22 situation. How does one rate an industry where the pollution is minimal at the production plant and peaks the moment the product leaves the factory gates? How does one rate an industry that is the mother of all chemical industries? How does one rate an industry that …
on june 13, death deluged the banks of Yamuna river in Agra. The Sikandara-Taj Mahal area along the water body was covered with thousands of dead and dying fish. Less than a week later, reports of more fish deaths poured in from Bateshwar
Concrete drama Actsaid the court. The government did not. The realtors are at the deep end now since April 182001new construction activity in Ahmedabad has virtually come to a standstill. The realtors of the commercial capital of Gujaratone of the two most industrialised states of Indiaare desperate. Builder after builder …
working along the same lines as air pollution control programs, the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) has proposed a water quality trading policy that the agency says will make wastewater systems faster and more efficient. The idea is to grant
when the Jharkhand High Court (hc) asked state pollution control board chairperson Balmukund Nath Shahdeo to assist it during the hearing of a pollution case relating to an industrial unit near Dhanbad, the official was blissfully ignorant of the matter. This prompted the hc to delve into his antecedents. Shahdeo's …
the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (tnpcb) has issued a show-cause notice to Hyundai Motor (India) Limited (hmil) for alleged environmental violations at its car plant at Sriperumpudur near Chennai. The notice has been issued to the company for contravening the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and …
river pollution has threatened beluga whale populations and made fish eating a health risk in Montreal. St Lawrence river is reeling under excessive industrial pollution. Montreal's Technoparc Saint-Laurent, an industrial house, near Dorval Airport site is discharging toxic chemicals into the river. The chemicals include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in concentrations …
With urban and industrial development accelerating at a fast pace, waste disposal is becoming a major problem. Inordinate focus on household waste has often disguised the much larger volume generated by activities like manufacturing of goods. Industrialisation and level of affluence influence both the composition and quantity of waste. Research …
E-WASTE - a byproduct of the US technological revolution - is being sneaked into India, Pakistan and China. This revelation has been made in a report released by five non-governmental organisations (NGOs) spread over four countries. The document titled 'Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia' warns that the processing …
taking serious note of the fact that hundreds of electroplating units operating in non-conforming and residential areas at Faridabad in Haryana have failed to move out despite legal notices served to them, the Haryana Pollution Control Board (hpcb) has now served an ultimatum to the polluting units to relocate or …
BANGLES and vermilion. The unusual gift made Orissa chief minister (CM) Naveen Patnaik see red. But by giving this present to the CM - along with samples of toxic water and ruined crop - the tribal women of Sukruli, too, were venting their anger. Because an insouciant state administration had …
In a crucial judgement, the California Supreme Court ruled that people harmed by drinking contaminated water can legally sue their supplier for failing to deliver. The ruling came in a case involving about 2,500 residents of San Gabriel Valley, who sued industrial polluters and water companies over the alleged contamination …
The Yangtze River of China is becoming increasingly polluted, according to a report of the Yangtze River Water Resources Authority. In 2001, sewage and industrial waste dumping increased by 11 per cent from the 2000 levels. Due to this, many stretches of the 6,212-km long river have become too polluted …
on december 2, 2001, prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated a Rs 296-crore project to beautify Andhra Pradesh's Musi river. Top priority was to be accorded to cleaning the water body under the National River Conservation Plan. The state government, however, seems to have set its own agenda. In compliance …
