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 Maharashtra government today admitted that it had to shut down eight small-scale power generation plants due to the pollution they were causing. The aggregate power generation capacity of these units was nearly 800 MW. Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who holds the energy portfolio, told the legislative assembly in …
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has asked for a report from his Environment and Industries Ministers on the plan to extract gravel and boulders from 36 freshwater streams in the state endangering half of the habitat of the state
The district administration has woken up to the need of developing an eco-friendly zone around biologically sensitive areas as per the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) guidelines. The administration has now directed the officials concerned to prepare a zonal masterplan for developing such a zone in the five-km radius …
COIMBATORE: Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam (KNMK) has written to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, seeking help to solve the issues that confront the Tirupur knitwear cluster. The party president Best S. Ramasamy said one lakh workers had lost their jobs and five lakh more were on the verge of losing work, …
KOLKATA, 5 APRIL: A public interest litigation (PIL) seeking an interim order to restrain West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) from giving effect to a notification on 29 December, 2009, which completely prohibited the use of loudspeakers in open areas, was filed in Calcutta High Court today. Filed by Trinamul …
Ever heard of bottled cooking gas, green diesel or bio-CNG? And that too produced from waste generated in the city? It might sound shocking, but the next generation of clean fuel technologies can potentially lead to zero-waste clean habitats by converting waste into fuel. Growdiesel, in collaboration with the Maharashtra …
The Environment Ministry today lifted moratorium imposed on eight industrial clusters located in critically polluted areas in different parts of the country for considering projects for environmental clearance. The Ministry, in view of the recommendations of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), lifted moratorium on the clusters Angul Talchar (Orissa), …
Cases of mandatory environment clearance are piling up due to failure of the government to constitute a new State-level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) and State-level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC). The term of the three-member SEIAA headed by AK Goswami expired in October last and the SEAC also completed the …
LUCKNOW: After persistently recording higher noise levels, Lucknow has come under the direct watch of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). The real time ambient noise monitoring network was launched by minister of state for environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Lucknow is a part …
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) is all set to crack down on sale of nonsmoking tobacco, available in plastic sachets. A ban has been imposed on it as per the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011. While both wholesale and retail traders have complied with the …
MUMBAI: The BMC has issued commencement certificates to 11 public parking towers-eight in the Parel-Dadar belt and three in Goregaon-for 15,845 vehicles, according to the latest official figures. The structures will be about 10-15 storey high. These certificates were issued before chief minister Prithviraj Chavan early this month ordered a …
Ranchi, March 21: Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) will organise a series of public hearings between April 18 and May 6 in an attempt to address grievances related to polluting industrial units in the state. Through the first such exercise of its kind, JSPCB will try to gauge the …
SHASUN Chemicals in the SIPCOT industrial park in Cuddalore, from where a bromine gas leak earlier this week left hundreds of people gasping for breath, was functioning illegally as it did not have a valid consent from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to operate the plant. Getting the …
JAMMU, Mar 10: Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology, Mian Altaf informed the House that a 3-member committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Chairman, Pollution Control Board comprising its members as Magistrate and Police Officer of their respective areas to give suggestions how to control the noise pollution …
The state pollution control board has issued a set of clarifications on microphone norms the day after Metro highlighted violation at the two meetings attended by chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
There has been a drastic decline in the quantity of waste generated by the large, medium and small industrial units in the State in the past one year. As compared to the year 2008-09, the industrial waste has shown a decline of around 54,000 mt tonne in the year 2009-10. …
