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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Gram Panchayat, Khalilpur Vs State of Haryana & Ors dated 26/09/2014 on the issue of sewage being discharged near the Village Khalilpur, Haryana. Previous Orders
US to pay Native Americans $1bn Obama pledge to Native Americans The US government has agreed to pay $554m (£339m) to the Native American Navajo tribe to settle a legal dispute. It is the largest payment ever made by the government to a single tribe. The litigation included claims that …
The Supreme Court today expressed satisfaction over Centre's blueprint to clean river Ganga but sought response on how it plans to implement the ambitious policy. The bench said outlining short, medium and long term measures by the Centre was fine but wondered how the court would come to know that …
"We want to verify what you are doing and how you are going to do it," says the Court. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it wants the NDA government to give it a “commitment” that river Ganga will be cleaned in a phased manner and said the court will …
Gazipur Correspondent :The Department of Environment (DoE) on Monday fined the authorities of four dying and washing factories Tk37lakh for polluting environment in Kaliakoir upazila of the city.Assistant director Mohammad Hafizur Rahman of the department said a team of DoE led by Md Alamgir, director (Monitoring and Enforcement) of its …
A Florida environmental group is offering $10 million to anyone who can devise a method for ridding the Everglades and other waterways around the country of the fertilizer byproduct phosphorous that has caused disastrous algal blooms in Florida and the Midwest. The Miami-based Everglades Foundation announced the international challenge prize …
FIJI Ports Corporation Limited says it made history by enforcing fines on marine vessels that pollute the country's ports. FPCL said it collected over $100,000 in fines from about 30 ships. "This was done for the first time in the history of Fiji Ports and pollution incidents have now reduced …
China is on track to exceed its 2014 target for cutting water pollution, the government announced on Wednesday, amid reports that it plans a $326 billion action plan to clean up its rivers and lakes. A lack of environmental oversight during decades of economic growth has caused a dire water …
Infrastructure of 1,662 water drinking schemes damaged in Jammu region With the entire government machinery engaged in restoring services in the Kashmir valley, thousands of flood-affected people in the Jammu region are forced to drink polluted groundwater in the absence of mobile water purification plants. The recent floods that destroyed …
The Aluva municipality is discharging waste water from all the three drainages in the town into river Periyar which serves the drinking water needs of Kochi and suburbs.Municipal authorities have also admitted that they treat only waste water from one of the three waste water outlets before discharging the same …
The NDA govt has identified 118 towns as a first target to achieve total sanitation including water waste treatment and solid waste management After being rapped by the Supreme Court for its approach to clean the Ganga, the Narendra Modi government has placed before it a blueprint of short-, medium- …
Owners and representatives of the factories were present at the hearing The Department of Environment fined seven dying factories about Tk1.25 crore for polluting the environment by discharging untreated water and liquid into Turag river and wetlands. The DoE fined the factories after a hearing at its Dhaka head office …
A shipyard in China's southeast has suspended operations after at least 500 farmers, who blame water pollution from the yard for killing their abalone harvest, stormed the yard and smashed its offices, an official at the shipyard said on Tuesday. There has been no work at the Fujian Huadong Shipyard, …
As a key section of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project prepares to go into operation, water quality tests show the battle against pollution is being won. The first phase of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is scheduled to be launched in late October. The water quality …
Even as the state government repeated a familiar story for the third consecutive year, the Allahabad High Court has allowed relaxation in connection with immersion of idols during the festival season near the banks of Rivers Ganga and Yamuna. The district and state authorities have been asked to ensure that …
The Mexican authorities have issued a new alert about a toxic spill into a river from a copper mine run by the mining giant Grupo Mexico. Officials in the northern state of Sonora asked people not to use water from the Bacanuchi river after an orange stain appeared in it. …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Pankaj Sharma Vs. MoEF & Others dated 19/09/2014 regarding the mushrooming 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) …
The sub-surface water in and around the SIPCOT Industrial Estate here has become heavily polluted. It is unfit for consumption and poses serious health hazards, including cancer, to the residents. This came to light when tests were conducted by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on the water samples collected …
In Cuddalore,High Lead,Cadmium The groundwater in and around the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Sipcot) in Cuddalore contains carcinogenic chemicals and is unfit for human consumption, according to an analysis by the Sipcot Area Community Environmental Monitors (Sacem). Many of the main parameters were found to be higher …
Meeting held to review preparedness for Godavari Pushkaram Endowments Commissioner Y.V. Anuradha on Wednesday asked the West Godavari district administration to initiate measures to arrest the pollution of the Godavari river. Speaking at a review meeting, she highlighted the need for upkeep of the ‘holy’ ambience of the river and …
