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 National Green Tribunal Thursday sought more clarification on key issues before deciding the fate of about 700 Kanpur-based tanneries on the banks of river Ganga, termed as "highest sources of pollution" in one of its earlier observations. The bench, chaired by Justice (retd.) Swatanter Kumar, Thursday directed the Uttar …
Germany will provide 3 million Euro to support India's ongoing Ganga rejuvenation plan and explore various options to develop the country's national river. One of the options is to explore an option of extending co-operation for Ganga rejuvenation on the lines of Indo-German Energy Forum - a dedicated platform to …
Rates of marine animals needing treatment for ingesting plastic bags, balloons and other waste in Australian waters have “accelerated dramatically” in the past decade, according to veterinarians, the toll of more than five trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world’s oceans largely unseen. The manager of Sydney’s Taronga Zoo …
The proposal, mooted at a review meeting on Namami Ganga, will take six States on board before installation. The Centre has proposed the setting up and maintenance of Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) in all the 118 cities and towns located along the Ganga in a time-bound manner to check pollution …
Oil company has sold assets worth more than $40bn to pay for fines and liabilities from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill BP is selling off a stake in two promising discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico and transferring their operation to a US group in its latest attempt to …
AGL's coal seam gas ambitions in the Gloucester area have been dealt a double blow with the launch of two government investigations into the detection of toxic BTEX chemicals in flowback water from two of the company's four wells. The energy giant is also at risk of losing a key …
Project Can Be Fast-Tracked As River Leg Is Shortest Government is likely to take up cleaning and rejuvenation of Ganga in Jharkhand as a “priority stretch“ since the total length passing through the stretch is shorter than the other four states -Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttarakhand.This has been …
A study carried out by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has revealed that samples of packaged drinking water from the city have been found to contain levels of bromate, chlorite and chlorate higher than the stipulated limits of World Health Organisation (WHO). This poses a risk of cancer on ingestion. …
Irked over high pollution level of Godavari and Shipra rivers, Shankaracharya of Puri Swami Adhokshyanada has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a plan for the purification of both rivers and a written assurance in this regard. The next Kumbh would be held on the banks …
A Montana town's water supply, contaminated by oil from a breached pipeline over the weekend, may be safe for drinking again by Friday, state officials said, after tests showed a drop in concentrations of a cancer-causing petrochemical. The contamination is linked to last Saturday's spill into the Yellowstone River of …
Almost 3 million gallons of potentially toxic saltwater leaked from a western North Dakota pipeline into a creek that feeds the Missouri River, the largest spill of its kind in the state's history. The leak, from a four-inch saltwater pipeline operated by Summit Midstream Partners LP approximately 15 miles north …
The cropping pattern in Punjab, particularly the cultivation of water-intensive paddy, is under the Centre’s scrutiny at the highest level. The concern was raised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a recent meeting of the Council on Climate Change in the presence of senior ministers Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Venkaiah …
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Environmental researchers and BP attorneys sparred Wednesday over the potential effects of the 2010 Gulf oil spill in a trial aimed at determining whether the oil giant should be made to pay some $13.7 billion in Clean Water Act penalties. A government witness, Dr. Stanley Rice, …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to install CCTV cameras along stretches of Ulhas river and asked for checkposts manned by appropriate agency or an NGO outside each industrial area to check for trucks carrying effluent. The NGT has asked the Central Pollution …
Noting that the 700 tanneries in Kanpur on the banks of Ganga were “one of the highest sources of pollution” in the river, the National Green Tribunal Tuesday (NGT) warned that it will be “compelled” to order the closure of each one of these units if all concerned do not …
Scientists are stepping up efforts to identify a mysterious gooey substance polluting waters along the eastern edge of San Francisco Bay, coating hundreds of sea birds and killing scores of them, a state wildlife official said Tuesday. Initial field testing of the slime, first reported on Friday, came back negative …
BP Plc, citing low oil prices, tried to whittle away at $13.7 billion in potential fines under the Clean Water Act on Tuesday as the penalty phase started in its trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP said its fine should be modest as it took extensive …
A cancer-causing component of oil has been detected in the drinking water supply of an eastern Montana city downstream from a crude oil spill A cancer-causing component of oil has been detected in the drinking water supply of an eastern Montana city just downstream from a crude oil spill that …
The Ogaki Dam Reservoir is one of the principal irrigation dam reservoirs in the Fukushima Prefecture and its upstream river basin was heavily contaminated by radioactivity from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. For the purpose of environmental assessment, it is important to determine the present condition of the …
Nagpur: The city's environmental status report (ESR) 2013-14, meant to be submitted to the state government, may turn out to be a massive embarrassment for the civic body despite inordinate delay in preparing and submitting it. A majority of report's content excluding data is nothing but a copy of earlier …
