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 …
‘Residents of Pampa basin face health risk due to river pollution' People residing in the Pampa river basin up to Kuttanad are exposed to grave health risks during the ‘Mandalam-Makaravilakku' pilgrimage season since the river gets increasingly polluted then, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti general secretary, has said. The …
Government grants huge tax exemptions to industries for installing pollution control equipment. This is done to achieve certain social, economic and environmental goals. But it has failed to monitor the working of this subsidy regime. While many industries do achieve the desired pollution control results, many others blatantly flout norms. …
A jurisdictional war between Ranchi district administration and Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) is threatening to take a toll on proper implementation of guidelines for a peaceful and eco-friendly Durga Puja. While the JSPCB, which has released a host of pollution control directives to Puja organisers, wants deputy commissioners …
SHILLONG: The Union Ministry of Forest and Environment has given environment clearance to the Meghalaya Ferrous Limited for setting up of the ferro alloys plant at Porla village near Nongstoin in West Khasi Hills. Official sources on Saturday informed that the Union Ministry had given the environment clearance for setting …
KOLKATA, 29 SEPT: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will examine the pollution level of the Hooghly river after the immersion of the idols of the goddess Durga, member, mayor-in-council (parks and garden), Mr Debasish Kumar said today. He said the civic authorities will collect water samples from the Hooghly river …
CHENNAI: Chennai is witnessing the classical development versus environmental debate yet again as students, faculty and well wishers of the Pachayappa’s College are up in arms against the State Government’s proposal to raze the lush green campus and make way for a metro station in its vicinity. All this is …
New Delhi: In 2009, Delhi government had banned the use, sale and storage of plastic bags. Two years on, the ban has failed to make any significant dent. The shoddy implementation of the ban has prompted the environment department to propose a blanket ban on all plastic carry bags and …
The MoEF has been implementing a centrally sponsored scheme for Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) since 1991. In the light of the operational deficiencies in the earlier scheme, the development of pollution control technologies and the recommendations of SPCBs related thereto, a need was felt to revise the earlier guidelines for …
Reluctant to take a decision on the issue of the garbage processing plant, the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC) has prepared a report on the functioning of the plant and sent it to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The board has been asked to take further action on the …
Bhubaneswar: Tightening its noose against polluting industries in the state, the Odisha government on Monday issued partial closure notices to 26 sponge iron plants for not complying with the stipulated pollution control norms, official sources said. The 26 sponge iron units are found not enhancing their bag filter capacity and …
Perturbed over the filling up of the dumping ground, residents of Dadumajra held a protest on Friday demanding that the dumping of garbage be stopped at the site. The residents demanded that the garbage be taken to the Garbage Processing Plant. The residents of Dadumajra have over the past few …
The Greenpeace fact finding report states that Singrauli is the ninth highest in the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) amongst 88 highly polluted industrial blocks in the country. The index value of Singrauli (81.73) clearly indicates that the area is critically polluted owing to power plants established in the region. …
After almost coming on board, Environment and Forests Minister Jayanti Natarajan today scuttled a cabinet proposal by Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma to put in place a national manufacturing policy. The policy is likely to be referred to a group of ministers with a direction that inter-ministerial issues be …
The Municipal Corporation has sought a detailed report from the Solid Waste Management Plant’s management to furnish details about garbage intake and the end product. Mayor Ravinder Pal Singh, the municipal commissioner and other Municipal Corporation officials, on Wednesday went to the Garbage Processing Plant at Dadumajra on a surprise …
SRINAGAR: Government today constituted an Empowered Committee to examine the issues related to establishment of un-authorized and illegal stone crushers, brick kilns and other allied establishments, which are hazardous to the environment across the State. Administrative Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department is the Chairman of the Committee while as Member …
The CAG report has revealed that the Rajghat Thermal Power Station and the Gas Turbine Power Station operated without any environment clearance for 20 years before receiving the consent to operate from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee. The plants also violated several other norms on air, noise and water pollution …
At AstraZeneca we are proactively addressing the problem of pharmaceuticals entering the environment as a result of our manufacturing discharges (Nature 476, 265; 2011). (Correspondence)
A recent paper of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Towards an Emission Trading Scheme for Air Pollutants in India, explores the possibility of introducing a permit and trading system for air pollutants from industrial sources. The scheme operates along the lines of the cap-and-trade mechanism for greenhouse …
The cash-strapped Shimla Municipal Corporation (MC) will once again urge the government to allow it to impose green tax on all outside vehicles entering the “Queen of Hills” so that it can generate resources to improve its financial health. A special meeting of the MC House has been convened on …
State govt adopts HC guidelines to relocate them in safer zones The decision of the State government to promulgate an ordinance to regulate stone-crushing units in Karnataka is likely to hit the existing operators really hard. For, the government has changed its stand and adopted almost all the “rigid” guidelines …
