Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Chhattisgarh government has decided to survey its air quality by installing two air-monitoring systems in the state capital. Two similar systems would also be installed, one each in Bilaspur and Raigarh. Talking to TOI, Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) member Devendra Singh said the systems, which cost Rs 65 lakh …
Drivers are being urged to switch off their engines while at a crossroads in Sussex in a bid to improve air quality. Mid Sussex District council has put up "Cut engine - cut pollution" signs on each of the four approaches to the Stonepound Crossroads in Hassocks. Councillor Christopher Snowling …
GHAZIABAD: The city will soon get a continuous ambient monitoring system that will display real-time analysis of air pollution levels. In it, levels of commonly used parameters for measuring air pollution ? sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, PM 10 and PM 2.5 ? will be displayed on a digital …
Heeding a plea to check air pollution from industries in Uttarakhand, the National Green Tribunal Wednesday directed the State Pollution Control Board (USPCB) to inspect all air pollution control devices installed in iron and steel units in Jasodharpur Industrial Area (JIA) near Kotdwar. A bench headed by Justice U D …
The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has approved a decision to set up a continuous ambient air quality monitoring station in Panaji to measure air pollution in the capital city at a cost of Rs 1.20 crore. Chairman of GSPCB Jose Manuel Noronha told reporters that the 114th board …
CPCB implements the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (NAMP) through a network comprising 544 operating ambient air quality stations covering 224 cities/towns in states and Union territories of the country in compliance with the mandate under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 to collect compile and disseminate …
CPCB implements the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (NAMP) through a network comprising 523 operating ambient air quality stations covering 215 cities/towns in states and Union territories of the country in compliance with the mandate under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 to collect compile and disseminate …
Concerned over frequent fires at the Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dump yards and snowed under by complaints from residents about air pollution and health hazards, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board decided to install realtime continuous air quality monitoring stations in these areas. It has been almost two years since plans …
Latvia's environment minister Romans Naudins has entrusted Riga City Mayor Nils Ushakovs to immediately solve the problem of air pollution in downtown Riga, LETA reported on Monday. According to the report, the European Commission (EC) sent a warning to the Latvian Environmental Protection and Regional Development Ministry (EPRD) concerning the …
New buildings will be constructed to house Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board offices and laboratories in seven centres across the State during 2014-15 at a cost of Rs. 14 crore, Environment Minister Thoppu N.D. Venkatachalam informed the Assembly here on Thursday. The buildings would come up in Erode, Coimbatore (South), …
BEIJING -- Only nine of 161 Chinese cities reached the new -- and stricter -- air quality monitoring standards in the first half of this year, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP). Zhoushan, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Zhanjiang, Yunfu, Beihai, Sanya and Lhasa are the cities which reached the standard, …
Malaysia Minister of Environment said in a notice published on Thursday that the air quality in two cities of the country was still "unhealthy" based on the air quality index monitoring recorded 07:00 the same day. The notice said, recently affected by smog, the cities of Sibu and Sri Aman …
In order to assess the problem of rising air and noise pollution produced by firework during Deepawali festival, Central Pollution Control Board has conducted Ambient Noise and Air Quality Monitoring on Normal Day (October 29th, 2013) and Deepawali Day (November 03rd, 2013) at Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata, Bangaluru, Bhopal, Shillong and …
China's air quality improved slightly in the first half of 2014 compared with the same period in 2013, but aggravated ozone pollution became a prominent problem across the country, according to Environmental Protection Ministry figures released on Monday. In 74 major cities, air quality was good 60.3 percent of the …
The government today said the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recent report describing Delhi as the most polluted city in the world by considering estimated data for fine dust in a select manner was "improper". On the other hand, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said, the ambient air quality, which is regularly …
Armed With Health Dept Report, Ganganagar Locals Start Campaign Against Illegal Factories Kolkata: A TOI report on the health hazards faced by the people of Ganganagar Katakhal area owing to mushrooming chemical units had prompted the state health department to conduct a survey. The study, which found an alarming rise …
London is projected to fail European air quality limits until at least 2030, posing a risk to the health of its residents, and missing a compliance deadline by two decades. The capital will still have 25 kilometers (16 miles) of roads breaching nitrogen dioxide limits in 2030, and compliance will …
For the first time in history, over half the world's population now lives in cities - and that number is set to grow. However, urban centres have also become the biggest sources of pollution. Unsafe air quality levels are worst in Asia, with India and Pakistan's major cities topping the …
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) started a project to support China in managing air quality and energy consumption as well as forecasting renewable-energy supplies. Under the project, the Armonk, New York-based company is cooperating with the Beijing municipal government on a system to determine the type, source and level of …
Delhi's air pollution measures like introducing compressed natural gas, building the Metro and moving polluting industries outside city limits have been praised universally. But evidence has now emerged that, since these interventions, areas bordering the city have been experiencing very poor air quality. As polluting industries, built-up area and population …
