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 …
Seeks detailed plan on handling of hazardous waste, oil spillage, radioactive materials The decision on environmental and costal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance to Adani Group’s ship recycling facility near Mundra port in Kutch has been deferred with the expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) …
Department of Environment (DoE) on Monday fined eight mills and factories in Chittagong Tk 18.6 million for polluting environment. DoE Director (monitoring and enforcement) Md Alamgir awarded the financial punishment after summoning owners and representatives of the mills and factories to the DoE headquarters in the capital. Of the mills …
Disposal of factory waste and chemicals are polluting waters of Haridoa and old Brahmaputra river in the district posing serious threat to public health and environment as well. Many residents of the river areas are forced to use the dirty water to meet their daily needs and they have been …
Environmental experts have warned against possibility of oil pollution in Chilika lagoon, thanks to the large number of ill-equipped mechanised country boats that ply in the lagoon. Their analysis is based on petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) concentration found in certain segments of the 1,100 sq km brackish water lake. A scientific …
The Centre has released an additional assistance of Rs 37.5 crore for the Buddha Nullah cleaning project. This is in addition to Rs 50 crore earlier provided by the Planning Commission and Rs 16 crore provided under the bio-remediation project for the cleaning of the nullah by the Environment Ministry. …
Disposal of factory waste and chemicals are polluting waters of Haridoa and old Brahmaputra river in the district posing serious threat to public health and environment as well. Many residents of the river areas are forced to use the dirty water to meet their daily needs and they have been …
Fisherwomen have vowed to lead a campaign against increasing pollution and degradation of fresh water bodies in the country, specifically in Sindh, saying like their forefathers they will continue to be the custodians of these resources. They opposed contract system at the rivers and illegal encroachment which destroys the natural …
Parallels in spend on cleaning up of Ganga, Yamuna and 10 lakes of Bhopal and their conservation, in many ways, are too striking to ignore. If the sum involved to clean Ganga and Yamuna each was over Rs 1,000 crore, in case of Bhopal it had crossed Rs 500 crore …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it has initiated a rarely used process under the Clean Water Act to "identify appropriate options to protect" the Bristol Bay fishery from the impact of the proposed mine. The decision follows a report in January that found large-scale mining would pose serious risks …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Madhusudan Sharma v. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 03/03/2014 regarding replacement of pipes supplying water in the city of Jaipur where drinking water pipelines and sewage pipelines are laid in close proximity and allegedly due …
The Bagmati River cleanup campaign completed its 42 weeks today. Like in previous Saturdays, stakeholders, including the Ministry of Urban Development, the Ministry of Federal Affairs, the Ministry of Environment, the High Level Bagmati Civilisation Protection Committee, and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City took part in the campaign today as well. …
Neonicotinoids currently dominate the insecticide market as seed treatments on Canada’s major Prairie crops (e.g., canola). The potential impact to ecologically significant wetlands in this dominantly agro-environment has largely been overlooked while the distribution of use, incidence and level of contamination remains unreported. We modelled the spatial distribution of neonicotinoid …
This report is a compilation of data gathered from Central Ground Water Board and various participating organizations in Punjab to highlight the prevailing status of water quality and identify the challenges along with possible remedial measures. Rapid population increase coupled with agricultural practices, urbanization and industrialization has brought in many …
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a comprehensive report from the Ministry of Petroleum and the Director General Petroleum Consortium (PC) regarding not spending the development funds in areas from where the oil and gas being extracted. A Division Bench comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Ejaz Afzal was …
As the Obama administration readies rules to force all U.S. power plants to lower the rate at which they produce greenhouse gases, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a major coal state, is trying to steer a bill through the Senate that he said would hold off the Environmental Protection …
South Africa’s government delayed the implementation of a planned carbon tax to 2016, while saying it may impose new levies on mining companies to help fund the treatment of acid water seeping from disused gold mines. The National Treasury two years ago said it planned to charge 120 rand ($11) …
Notices To Offenders After Samples Are Tested A fact-finding study on the pollution of the city’s rivers and its impact on biodiversity is underway. The newly formed biodiversity committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) which met last week decided to take up the survey. Members of the committee include …
State regulators in North Carolina may force Duke Energy Corp to move thousands of tons of coal ash from storage ponds at a power plant to a lined landfill after a massive spill this month contaminated water and wildlife in the Dan River. The state's Department of Environmental and Natural …
Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has extended the study of ground water contamination, earlier commissioned for the River Sal basin, now to the Bethora industrial estate also. GSPCB chairman Jose Noronha told the media that the pollution board had signed a memorandum of understanding with Japanese company, Asahi Geo …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has forfeited a bank guarantee of Rs 18 lakh of Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) for failing to check pollution in the Panchganga river. The pollution watchdog has also issued a show cause notice to the KMC, asking it to immediately stop release of contaminated …
