Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
This study is an effort to comprehensively assess the potential effect of material scarcity on low-carbon energy technologies, taking into account the significant uncertainty in potential future supply. The research was conducted as part of the partnership programme between the business leaders’ initiative 3C (Combat Climate Change) and the Stockholm …
Untreated Industrial Effluent Dumped On Yamuna Floodplain New Delhi: The next time you stop along the Yamuna to buy those fresh leafy vegetables, think twice. A study carried out by The Energy Research Institute (TERI) has found that the continuous dumping of untreated industrial effluent and sewage into the river …
As a result of Hurricane Katrina, > 100,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and a significant amount of sediment was deposited throughout the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Researchers have identified the potential for increased lead hazards from environmental lead contamination of soils. The authors assessed the distribution of residential …
Public health policies such as tobacco control, air pollution reduction, and hazardous waste remediation may have reduced cadmium exposure among U.S. adults. However, trends in urine cadmium, a marker of cumulative cadmium exposure, have not been evaluated. The authors estimated the trends in urine cadmium concentrations in U.S. adults using …
Tired of agitating, Sukhdev Vihar residents ‘invite' officials, politicians Many protests, agitations and petitions later, the residents of Sukhdev Vihar – one of the most densely-populated residential colonies located next to the Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy incinerator – have a unique proposition for Delhi environment officials and politicians: “Come spend a day …
In an interesting development, Ahmedabad- based waste management expert P U Asnani has recommended capping of the Sonsodo waste dumping site in view of the presence of heavy metals in the waste. Asnani submitted his report to the Margao Municipal Council which was deliberated and discussed by the Monitoring Committee …
Soil and plant samples collected from different sites receiving sewage and tube-well irrigation in Sangrur District of Punjab were analyzed for heavy metals to ascertain pollution potential.
China promised Tuesday to contain heavy metal pollution but admitted it faces a challenge with inadequate environment protection resources in a rapidly growing economy. China wants to cut its heavy metal pollution by 15 percent of 2007 levels by 2015, whilst keeping non-heavy metal pollution under 2007 levels, the country's …
Special task force tea-ms of the Pollution Co-ntrol Board inspected 23 hospitals on Tuesday in Hyderabad. Ninety-six hospitals with 100 beds or more have been targeted for inspection this week. None of the hospitals inspected had valid au-thorisation to operate from the PCB. Neither did they have an efflue-nt treatment …
A pot experiment was conducted on a sandy loam soil (Typic ustochrepts) to assess the suitability of FYM in amelioration of Ni in maize on artificially contaminated soil.
Greenhouse pot culture studies were conducted to evaluate the bioremediation potential of spinach for removal of cadmium. The results indicated that spinach was able to take up cadmium in substantial quantity in the shoot. There were no visual cadmium toxicity effects on spinach and no significant reduction in the dry …
Fighting pressure from rich countries like the US, India has refused to adopt a legally binding target to wipe out mercury from the country, and has agreed to prepare by 2013 a voluntary roadmap to reduce this toxic heavy metal. India has said the technologies to remove mercury from thermal …
This study evaluated the persistence of heavy metals, cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb) and mercury (Hg) in surficial marine sediments and their relationship with textural characteristics. Furthermore, heavy metal distribution was studied against organic carbon concentration within the sediments. Our results suggest that Cochin estuary is highly polluted in the case …
This report by Blacksmith Institute reveals that worst pollution problems stem not from MNCs, but from poorly regulated small-scale operations and it also calculates for the first time, the health impacts of toxic sites. The World's Worst Toxic Pollution Problems 2011 report reveals that contrary to popular belief, most toxic …
The present guidelines provide guidance for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of wastes consisting of elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated with mercury, pursuant to decisions VIII/33, IX/15 and X/[ ] of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous …
AT A time when Indian honey is under the scanner for allegedly re-exporting cheap and poor quality Chinese honey, a private firm has become the first in the world to bag the True Source Honey (TSH) certificate. The certificate, a US industry initiative, is the authentication of the origin of …
Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) Chairman K S Pannu in a press statement on Sunday claimed that following the stringent directions by the board that came with warnings of strict action in case of non-compliance, electroplating units in Ludhiana and Jalandhar had started sending industrial waste to the tune of …
S. Faizi, Environment Expert Member of the Plachimada High Power Committee, has questioned the arguments of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Ltd relating to the Plachimada Coca-Cola Victims' Relief and Compensation Claims Special Tribunal Bill 2011 forwarded by the Union Home Ministry to the State. In a letter sent to the Prime …
MARGAO: With just a month to go for the commencement of work at the Sonsodo waste dumping site, tentatively in the first week of October, no decision has been taken on Fomento’s proposal for capping of the site on the lines of Gorai dumping ground in Mumbai. Fomento had last …
