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 …
maharashtra Pollution Control Board (mpcb) has become India's first pollution control board (pcb) to serve a show cause notice to a nuclear power plant for violating environmental laws. On September 16, 2005, mpcb member secretary D B Boralkar served a 15-day notice to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (npcil), …
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gases produced by ruminating dairy cattle have brought trouble for dairy owners in San Joaquin Valley, California, the us. Around 400-500 of the 1,500 valley dairies will now have to obtain air-operating permits, mandatory for all agricultural operations emitting over 25,000 pounds of volatile organic compounds (vocs) annually. Dairies have …
Chile witnessed a huge celebratory march by thousands of environmentalists, covering 14 cities of the country, on July 9, 2005. The activists sought to underline their successes, especially their two victories against major industries: the closure of the Valdivia wood pulp plant belonging to industrial conglomerate Copec, charged with polluting …
nepal's Bagmati river has finally got a respite from the onslaught of Kathmandu's waste. It has suffered the menace since the closure of the Gokarna Landfill site in 1999. But now the waste will be dumped at a semi-aerobic disposal site at Sisdole, in the adjoining Nuwakot district. The move …
us researchers have found how some microorganisms can clean groundwater and produce electricity from renewable resources. The ability owes to a highly electrically conductive, tiny structure called microbial nanowire that the scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst discovered in Geobacter. The nanowires are only 3-5 nanometres thick (20,000 times …
While automobiles in India have moved light years ahead in technology, style and service, traffic in most of our cities remains primitive. Urban transport, on the whole, is polluted, unsafe and expensive. For Mumbai and Delhi, which present a grim picture of bumper-to-bumper congestion, carpooling could be a possible way …
Kanpur can now chant river Ganga's dirge. On May 11, 2005, Uttar Pradesh (up) chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav inaugurated a barrage on the river, named the Luv-Kush barrage, which threatens to greatly increase the river's pollution load. The government claims the barrage will help meet the city's water needs …
Despite the opposition of president Carlos Mesa, Bolivia's Congress recently approved a controversial energy bill and Mesa decided not to veto it. He had earlier provoked the wrath of indigenous communities by refusing to sign the bill that imposed on foreign oil companies a 32 per cent tax on oil …
• Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Namo Narain Meena admitted in Parliament on May 13, 2005 that the Denmark government had warned the Indian government about the arrival of the fugitive Danish ship carrying hazardous waste, but the ship was allowed to dock in India (see Down …
To reduce the number of environment unfriendly diesel vehicles on the roads, the South Korean government has announced its plan to raise the transport tax on diesel by 14.4 per cent (US $0.046 per litre) from July 2005. The move is a part of its plan to raise the domestic …
disaster management bill: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil recently introduced the Disaster Management Bill, 2005 in the Rajya Sabha. It is considered a major step towards streamlining mitigation measures and response to disasters faced by the country. The bill's salient features include setting up a three-tier structure comprising a national …
following strong protests, the Manipur government's ambitious plan to move its legislative assembly hall, secretariat, 60 legislator quarters, high court and the People Forum to a new site has been stalled. The Capital Project-Manipur's master plan is being reworked. The relocation sites comprised the Kairang Khong wetland in the sacred …
Notice to Coke: The Supreme Court (SC), on May 6, 2005, issued a notice to multinational soft drinks company Coca-Cola on a plea of Kerala's Perumatty grama panchayat, which sought an order to stop Coca-Cola from drawing 0.5 million litres of groundwater daily for its Plachimada bottling unit. The permission …
A weed that spreads rapidly through ponds, lakes and rivers could provide a cheap yet effective way of removing arsenic from drinking water. A research team at UK's De Montfort University, led by Parvez Haris, has found a powder made from the dried roots of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) removed …
In 2003, the Union ministry of environment and forests instituted a charter called crep, or Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection. It was proposed as a novel way to regulate the 17 most polluting industrial sectors in India. crep introduced
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• Ensure all waste, legal and illegal, is trapped and treated to keep the drain clean • Augment and optimise treatment facilities, where needed, to treat this waste. Appropriate technologies of scale (centralised or local) should be adopted • Ensure treated effluent is reused and not mixed with untreated effluent …
The us Senate Environment Committee rejected the Bush administration's controversial Clear Skies bill on March 9, 2005. The bill imposes cuts on emissions of mercury, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from the country's coal-fired power plants. But environmentalists point out that it ignores the more urgent need of cuts in …
