Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The Environment ministry said it has approved the phase III of Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) for Delhi besides sanctioning two projects of pollution abatement for the river in Sonepat and Panipat in Haryana. "The YAP Phase III project for Delhi has been approved by the ministry at an estimated cost …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M/s. Sree Divya Granites Bangalore Vs The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board Bangalore dated 06/12/2013 regarding closure directions issued to the appellants’ units which are engaged in the granite cutting and polishing activities in Byndahalli, and Kadabagare villages in Bangalore …
Water pollution being caused by some steel industrial units in the town is playing havoc with the health of people here. Though industrial units claimed to adhere to the pollution control norms and deny discharging liquid pollutants, the Pollution Control Board had recently served notices on two industries after finding …
In middle-class environmentalism, there is no appetite for changing lifestyles to minimise waste and pollution. In the past 10 years, India's environmental movement has undergone a rebirth. It was first born in the 1970s, when the industrialised world was seeing the impact of growth on its environment. In that decade, …
GUWAHATI, November 24: A decision recently taken by the Pollution Control Board, Assam to exempt 62 categories of industrial units from its purview has triggered a controversy within the Board. As per the decision taken in its 95th meeting held recently, the Pollution Control Board has notified 62 categories of …
The National Green Tribunal has restrained a company here which manufactures caustic soda from carrying out construction activities and expansion of production capacity and directed the Puducherry Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to ensure that the firm is not operating illegally without consent and other statutory clearances. Tribunal judicial member Justice …
The high court has amended its decision not to hear ‘green’ cases and has clarified that it will continue to hear cases already pending before it, while new cases will be decided on a case-by-case basis. It was decided earlier that the high court will not hear 45 types of …
Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Monday ordered the closure of an allegedly illegal laterite stones quarry near a residential area at Dhansade-Torla in a tenanted agricultural field in Shiroda village in Ponda taluka. "Failure to comply with the aforesaid directions will compel the board to take stringent legal …
The High Court has allowed one month operation of hotels that have installed Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) after being sealed by the Pollution Control Board (PCB) in Gulmarg. As the matter came up for hearing, a division bench of the High Court comprising of Chief Justice M M Kumar and …
Calls for EIA of coal and coke handling facility at berth No 11 In a major setback to the Mormugao Port Trust, the Goa State Pollution Control Board while deferring the grant of consent to establish a mechanized coal and coke handling facility at berth no 11 has directed the …
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued notices to eight municipal corporations and 159 municipalities for not following guidelines on solid waste disposal. The corporations given notices are Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Junagadh, Jamnagar and Gandhinagar. It has threatened to take strict action under the Environment Protection Act 1986 …
The brisk unscientific mining of gypsum has been posing a grave threat to the ecology of the earthquake-prone belt of the erstwhile Doda district as blasting in mine sites has been going on unabated. It is widely believed that the continued blasting for extraction of gypsum is the main reason …
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to Quality Exports at the Cuncolim industrial estate for operating a unit "in a manner causing environmental pollution". GSPCB wants reasons why directions for closure or suspension of the operation of the unit should not be issued. …
Even as the Union Mines Ministry is in the process of framing dump policy for the iron ore producing States across the Country, the Goa Mining (Major Mineral) Policy 2013, has decided to allow dump handling outside the mining lease area provided the land can be converted to agricultural use …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pankaj Sharma Vs MoEF & Others dated 20/09/2013 regarding large number of mushroom development of restaurants which have illegally come out in the Hauz Khas Village without obtaining the required consents under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, …
Company asked to shut down DRI kiln 6, 9 and 10 and 130 mw FBC boiler (unit-II) forthwith Taking exception to violation of pollution norms, the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has served closure notice on Bhushan Power and Steel Limited (BPSL) in Sambalpur district. The OSPCB has intimated …
The State Pollution Control Board has filed a case against unit-I of Jaypee Cement Plant in a local court for undertaking expansion without obtaining the environmental clearance and other approvals. Even as the Chief Minister directed the officials to review the expansion proposal of Jaypee Cement Plant of its unit-I …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of A.T. Yuvaraj Erode District Vs Rani Chemicals Kalingarayanpalayam and Others regarding pollution caused by industries involved in the manufacturing of bleaching liquid which has been a cause for rampant air and water pollution in and around the village of Attayampalayam, …
Pune: Lawyer Asim Sarode filed the first case at the National Green Tribunal’s Pune bench on Monday. The case is about continuing pollution in the Chandrabhaga river in Pandharpur town of Solapur district. On day 1, the Pune bench received 27 cases pending before the principal bench of the National …
Bearing in mind the serious environmental impact of stainless steel pickling, the National Green Tribunal has restrained all stainless steel pickling units from carrying on any manufacturing activity in the Capital without the consent of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC). The NGT was hearing a petition by the All …
