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 …
Kirtika Suneja / New Delhi April 13, 2010, 0:57 IST The Union ministry of environment and forests is planning to expand its Eco-city project to cities across the country, especially those which get a substantial tourist inflow, so as to address issues on deteriorating air and water quality and waste …
The big difference between the petrol and diesel taxes has caused an increased usage of diesel run cars, the main culprit in fouling up the air A ROUND five months ago, the ministry for environment and forests (MoEF) released a revised national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), which it claims …
The Central Pollution Control Board website claims that an ac tion plan for monitoring and controlling emissions was prepared and many of its provisions were implemented as early as 2003. Yet, the RSPM levels in Chennai have not gone down, ac cording to the data provided by the pollution board. …
A high court order has not deterred a distillery in Sitamarhi district of Bihar from discharging effluents into the Bagmati. On January 27, the Patna High Court had ordered the Bihar State Pollution Control Board (spcb) and the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) to check pollution from Righa Sugar Company …
A high court order has not deterred a distillery in Sitamarhi district of Bihar from discharging effluents into the Bagmati. On January 27, the Patna High Court had ordered the Bihar State Pollution Control Board (spcb) and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to check pollution from Righa Sugar Company …
The Central Government considers it necessary in the public interest and to enable the recovery and/or reuse of useful material from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), thereby reducing the hazardous wastes destined for disposal and to ensure the environmentally sound management of all types of waste electrical and electronic …
$1bn WB Loan Also On Cards: Ramesh New Delhi: In a boost to the Ganga cleaning programme, the government has cleared projects worth Rs 1,394.11 crore for the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Uttarakhand. While the Union government had allocated Rs 500 crore for the 2010-11 fiscal, …
Cleaning the Ganga has become the top priority of the government and projects have been put on a fast track. The second meeting of the Empowered Steering Com- mittee of the National Ganga River Basin, com- prising Union minister, the Central Pollution Board and the Central Water com- mission, has …
In a setback to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh, legal experts have shot down its proposal to apply for certified emission reduction credits (CER). The civic body was contemplating applying to the United Nations Frame Work Convention on Climate Change for CERs and had sought legal opinion on the issue. …
The public sector petroleum company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), is giving environmental norms the short shrift while exploring oil and gas reserves in Tripura. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) found this during inspection of abandoned well sites in West Tripura and South Tripura districts in the first …
The disproportionate distribution of environmental risks among the population is known as environmental justice, environmental equity or at some instance environmental racism. All these terms in fact define the status that the poor suffer greater exposure to environmental pollution than other communities. Environmental justice, however, implies that no person or …
The 88 industrial clusters identified by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will be re-verified for the amount of pollution they generate, on the basis of which they will be re-rated.
MP Pollution Control Board Chairman Dr NP Shukla said that e-waste which includes electrical and electronic products and their parts are now emerging as a serious challenge in all cities and rural areas. According to an estimate by the year 2012 e-waste would be about 80-lakh tons, which has to …
Due to economic progress production of electrical and electronic items has gone up considerably in the country. These products are being updated frequently and the old products become outdated and replaced by the new technology products. We call these outdated products as e-waste. The e-waste is growing rapidly. According to …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday said Yamuna river cannot be cleaned before the Commonwealth Games that are scheduled to take place Oct 3-14 in the national Capital.
