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 …
Yogendra Chaudhry nobody can deny that damage caused by pollution is greater than the investment needed for setting up adequate pollution control measures. The data on pollution being generated is alarming. In Delhi, the industrial effluent load is 320 million litres per day (mld). Over 16 drains discharge about 1,900 …
in an attempt to make compressed natural gas ( cng ) more affordable, the environment ministry has asked the finance ministry for a reduction in import duty on cng kits. Presently, there is an import duty of 70 per cent on the kits, forcing the car owners to shell out …
The state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan said it would gradually phase out its premium gasoline and replace it with 98-octane unleaded gasoline in 2000 to help reduce pollution. All production and selling of the leaded premium gasoline would be stopped beginning 2000, a spokesperson for the state oil corporation …
On May 4, 1999, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organised a press conference to brief mediapersons about the legal notice that has been served by TELCO against Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain of CSE for allegedly writing a defamatory article against TELCO. They were threatened with a Rs …
In a significant ruling on April 29, 1999, the Supreme Court of India ordered the automobile industry to adhere to stringent emission standards or get off the road. Besides restricting the sale of cars that comply to Euro i norms to 1,500 (1,250 petrol and 250 diesel) per month in …
T he judges were angry. Very angry. They had reason to be. It is a well-known fact that pollution has already risen dramatically in the last two decades in India. To make matters worse, the automobile fleet was also growing by leaps and bounds. If automobiles with poor engine technology …
When it rains it burns Acid rain has already been reported in some parts of India, and the situation is likely to get worse India faces an increasing threat from acid rain
Scientists became aware of acid rain more than a century ago A cid rain is not a recent phenomenon. The term was first coined in 1852 by a chemist, Robert Angus Smith. The 35-year-old chemist, while studying the quality of air in and around his home town Manchester, England, found …
airlines have enormous fiscal benefits, because they don't have to pay excise on kerosene, let alone a levy on carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) or nitrogen oxide ( no x ) pollution by aircraft. Therefore, the real costs of flying must be paid, says Nannie van Vliet, a campaigner …
Human activities have made the sky a sewer. Subhash J Rele, writing in The Hindustan Times , estimates that each year, the global atmosphere is on the receiving end of 20 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, 130 million tonnes (mt) of sulphur dioxide, 97 mt of hydrocarbons, 53 mt of …
the Environment Pollution Authority ( epa ) was set up in 1998 on the order of the Supreme Court to monitor the steps taken by the Union government and the Delhi government for controlling environmental pollution in Delhi. The epa chairperson, Bhure Lal, at a press conference held in Delhi …
On april 6, the world's second largest oil company, bp Amoco, became the world's largest solar energy company. It spent us $45 million to win control of Solarex, preparing itself for life after oil. But the timing does not make sense. Oil prices are plunging like never before. In real …
The Delhi High Court ordered the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to submit a status report of its progress on pollution control measures in the river Yamuna. The government had allocated Rs 479.56 crore for the Yamuna Action Plan meant to clean the river. The court also asked the Haryana …
"Recommendations for Environmentally Sound Growth of Aluminium Industry in Orissa", a study by the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), highlighted the pollution caused by the state's existing smelting and aluminium plants. l Indian Aluminium Company (INDAL): The Hirakud plant emits 0.5million kg of fluorine every year. However, the SPCB admits …
burying waste paper and wood permanently locks away large amounts of carbon that if burnt would escape into the atmosphere and speed up global warming. The us now says it wants to include landfills as carbon sinks under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions. This could lead …
the energy crisis that raised its fearsome head in the 1970s is not really over yet. Threatening to bring the industrial world to a grinding halt, it finds new guises to sustain itself. The two billion people across the globe for whom clean, safe and cheap fuel remains inaccessible can …
The SC declined to entertain two related special leave petitions (SLPs) against an interim order of the Madras High Court which directed that the copper smelting plant of the Sterlite Industries (India) at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu could resume operation on an experimental basis till February 28, 1999. In its …
the last year witnessed a transatlantic controversy over the hazards of polyvinyl chloride ( pvc ). After a series of debates, both the European Union ( eu ) and us decided that pvc was not really as benign in its impacts as the industry representatives would have them believe. The …
if the ministry of environment and forests ( mef ) is to be believed, financial institutions may soon lend money to the environmental sector on a priority basis. At a meeting held recently, the Union minister for environment and forests, Suresh Prabhu, discussed the details of institutional financing for environmental …
