Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Dinesh Prasad Chaurasia & Others Vs State of Bihar & Others dated 12/04/2024. The matter related to improper disposal of fly ash by the thermal power station run by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Kanti, Muzaffarpur, …
India has received for the first time a grant-in-aid for the processing sector under a Montreal Protocol scheme to phase out the use and production of the chlorofluorocarbon(CFC) and other ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) between 1999 and 2010.The phase-out operation for India and other developing countries has commenced from this July.
The 28th executive committee meeting of the Montreal Protocol Fund, crucial for Indian chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) manufacturers, will begin in Montreal tomorrow.An important item on the agenda is to evolve a consensus on how much grant-in-aid India should get from the multilateral fund to phase out CFC production between 1999 and …
China, home of some of the most polluted cities in the world, has received $420 million from a multilateral fund to protect the ozone layer, the official Xinhua news agency said. Some $200 million from a fund set up in 1987 as part of the Montreal pact to protect the …
With the completion of the grace period granted on signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, developing countries are set to begin, on 1 July 1999, a freeze on production and consumption of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), prior to a gradual reduction and final phase-out in the …
One of the largest seizures in Texas of the illegal chloroflourocarbon (CFC) Freon took place on 24 June. The seizure, and arrest of Richard Schmolke on charges of smuggling, is part of a national campaign against the CFC black market. Schmolke is charged with scheming to smuggle more than 75,000lbs …
With the completion of the grace period granted on signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, developing countries are set to begin, on 1 July 1999, a freeze on production and consumption of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), prior to a gradual reduction and final phase-out in the …
The rapid increase in small-mining in poor nations, often employing women and children, is taking a heavy toll by way of fatalities and diseases, said the International Labour Organisation (ILO). On an average, there has been a 20 per cent rise in the past five years in 35 countries studied …
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says scientists have confirmed that most of the gases responsible for ozone depletion are produced by human activities. According to a June 23 NOAA press release, government and academic scientists, analyzing air samples trapped in ice cores from two sites in Antarctica and …
The IDBI completed appraisal of nine projects for grant of assistance of Rs 26.4 crore and disbursed an amount of Rs 7.7 crore for phasing out the use of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) during 1998-99.
The hole in the ozone layer in the South Pole is due to the Sun, not people according to research by a Chinese scientist. Yang Xuexiang, a professor of geological sciences at Changchun University of Technology, believes the damage is caused by solar winds, a current of high-energy particles.
Scientists at the Max-Plank Institute in Mainz, Germany, have identified another culprit in ozone destruction. Removal of active nitrogen from the gas phase through aerosol-particle sedimentation (denitrification) can substantially increase ozone losses. A Waibel and his team have shown that this loss is particularly significant in the Arctic, where future …
according to findings of a study commissioned by the European Union ( eu), E uropeans are constantly being exposed to unsafe amounts of ground-level ozone. "The threshold set for the protection of human health is exceeded substantially and in all member states,' reported the Copenhagen-based European Environment Agency ( eea …
New studies by Chinese scientists indicate that particular thermodynamic effects have caused ozone depletion over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Zou Han, a researcher from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that a recent study shows that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a major geothermal source for …
Smuggling of ozone depleting substances like chlorofluorocarbons (CFC 12) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC 22) into India through to the notice of the authorities.Environmentalists have told the authorities that they have evidence to such smuggling and if timely action is not taken to curb smuggling, India would get a bad name since …
Even though regulatory measures under the Montreal Protocol of 1987 to control consumption and production as also import and export of the ozone depleting substances(ODSs) are to come into force from July 1, no supporting legislation has been made by India as yet.These regulations seek to ban and gradually cut …
A $91 million contract has been awarded to Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, to develop a suite of satellite instruments that will significantly improve the accuracy of Earth's ozone measurements, US Commerce Secretary William Daley announced recently.
A Chinese meteorologist has mooted the idea of building an Ozone Observation Station in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to study the thinning of the ozone layer above the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Zhou Xiuji, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led the research group that studied …
A report issued by a committee of the National Research Council shows that oxygen additives used to reformulate gasoline, required since 1990 by the Clean Air Act, have had little effect in reducing ozone pollution. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsored a study by the National Research Council, chaired by …
The ozone layer in the northern hemisphere's upper atmosphere is thicker than it has been for a long time, reports the German Aerospace Research Centre (DLR). "These findings come as a surprise. The ozone layer has not been this thick since the 1980s at least," said nuclear physicist Michael Bittner, …
The two principal types of oxygen additives used in reformulated gasoline in the United States contribute little to reduce ozone pollution, says a new report by a committee of the National Research Council. In a study undertaken to examine the differences between the additives ethanol and methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), …
