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 …
How do you rate the level of environmental awareness and motivation in the state government? I was absolutely amazed at the total ignorance and negligence of any environmental consider- ation while taking policy decisions. There is no concern whatsoever, both at the administrative and ministerial levels. Would you say that …
HUNDREDS of foundries at Howrah, West Bengal, facing closure may hope to survive after all. The Supreme Court had recently ordered the closure of these units for pot implementing pollution control measures. A technology developed by the city-based Eastern Gases Ltd (EGL) now enables these foundries to use liquified petroleum …
Corning Incorporated of the US has introduced an automobile pollution-control system aimed at controlling cold start emissions. These emissions spew hydrocarbons in the first few minutes after starting the engine and before the catalytic converter becomes hot enough to operate. Cold start emissions account for 70-80 per cent of the …
The latest progress reported in the quest for a toxic waste-free environment comes from researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, US (Alternatives Journal. Vo122. No 1). Chemist Michael Hoffman and his colleagues have used high frequency ultrasound waves to break down samples of several toxic chemicals. Tiny …
A POSSIBLE lowering of the hazards posed by the use of lead has come about with, the first international agreement on measures to reduce its use. At a two-day meeting in Paris in the last week of February at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 26 nations have …
THE Supreme Court has been passing quite a few orders on environmental cases of late. It is, in fact, now common for journalists to somewhat affectionately refer to -one particular judge as the 'green judge', the largest number of judgments having been passed by him. So, environment is clearly on …
OF LATE, some industrialists and planners have started including environmental aspects on their agenda. The Madras-based Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) has designed a Rs 150- crore package to look into short- and long-term measures to tackle environmental pollution caused by tanneries in North Arcot district of Tamil Nadu. Under …
NATURAL organisms are once again coming to the aid of humans in rectifying past errors. Soil pollution, caused by oil products mainly in the oil-producing regions, can now be overcome by means of a biological preparation - putidoyl - consisting of a mixture of tiny microbes and minerals. The preparation …
I Sainsbury's Horsham store in Sussex, Britain, goes green by adopting secondary refrigeration for storing both chilled and frozen foods. Ammonia is used as the main refrigerant while the secondary cooling agent is a combination of glycol and silicon oil (Technology Partnership Initiative, issue 7). Each of the nine compressors …
IN A significant move, California is backing away from an earlier mandate which required that within two years, two per cent of the state's cars be electrically powered, says a recent report in the New York Times. The move raises questions about similar mandates in New York and Massachusetts which …
The Supreme Court request last month to the Bar Council of India, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and The BarAssociation of Howrah, West Bengal, to devise means nincing pollution and cleansing the environment, points it dsomand-headed hydra that environmental issues have ner suday. The court issued notices …
AQUA IS GOLD: Controversial it may be, but aquaculture still holds promise for many an entrepreneur. So much so that the State Bank of India (SBI), the country's leading bank, has expressed the wish to be a iconstructive partner' of the state government for promoting aquaculture in West Bengal. Addressing …
THE ministry of environment and forests is planning to introduce a proposal to treble the existing water cess rates at the current monsoon session of Parliament, following demands from fund- starved state pollution control boards. The ministry proposes to treble the existing rates of 1.5 paise on each kilolitre (ki) …
The Supreme Court's directive on saving the coastal zone in West Bengal is being followed religiously by the state pollution control board. Prawn farms will no longer function unless they follow environmental guidelines designed to save the Sunderbans ecosystem. The farms, until now functioning without any clearance, have been asked …
• A Rs 700 crore National Fund for Calamity Relief (NFCR) has been set up by the Centre to provide immediate assistance to states during floods, cyclones, drought and earthquakes. • Situated in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, the Khetri Copper Complex (KCC) has become the first zero pollution mining-cum-metallurgical industry …
The much publicised recent vehicular pollution control drive, which created much more than a stir in the Capital, has come heavily against vehicle owners without conclusively proving any positive gain. The drive has ignored the oil and vehicle producing companies, who could be credited with supplying the paying public ineffecient …
FOR the first time in Pakistan, public pressure has given industry notice that it cannot remain free from its environmental responsibility. A heady new sense of confidence is in evidence among Pakistan"s environmentalists, ever since a 9-month campaign concluded successfully last November. The fall-out of the battle: a move to …
Many natural resources are consistently overused and undervalued by modern Indian industry; none more so than water. Factories and manufacturing centres throughout the country have a carte blanche approach to this invaluable commodity -- they consume it, waste it, pollute it...without worrying about the cost. This callous disconcern flourishes only …
Eco-terrorists are for real. All over the world the establishment derisively uses the term to describe zealous environmental activists and groups on the fringe. For much of May, however, the term could easily apply to the establishment itself -- in this case, the Central government and the government of Delhi, …
FOLLOWING the Supreme Court's strict orders on the environ front, West Bengal's anti-pollution enforcement agencies are on red alert. Calcutta's cops are insisting that vehicle owners now have to get their "Pollution Under Control" (Puc) chits issued only from centres approved by the state government. Apparently, during one of those …
