Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
Gurgaon: The MCG has launched a helpline number for developers and private firms to get construction and demolition waste cleared from their sites and disposed of at designated sites, to put an end to the haphazard dumping of construction debris in the city. The helpline, 18001801817, was opened to public …
The counsel for the SDMC argued that dhalaos for dumping garbage had been constructed in the sub city, but people were still throwing garbage. Expressing its displeasure at the dumping of construction rubble on empty plots in Dwarka, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the civic agencies for …
The Delhi government has empowered its SDMs and tehsildars to carry out suprise inspections of construction sites and recommend penalty against violators of laid down norms to tackle air pollution. The move, along with authorising them to penalise those who burn waste in the open, comes as winter knocks on …
THANE: Unchecked dumping of debris and waste at the isolated stretch beyond Mithbunder Road is destroying the mangroves and greenery skirting the creek here. The Thane Municipal Corporation has failed to check this unrestrained activity here as tempos unabashedly offload the debris at various spots along the stretch under the …
The United States’ shares of global industrial roundwood production and derivative products have declined precipitously since the 1990s. We evaluate the extent of these declines compared with those of major producing countries from 1961 to 2013. We find that the US global share of industrial roundwood peaked at 28% in …
Heeding to the plea of an environment activist who moved the National Green Tribunal against the operation of concrete-manufacturing plant on Yamuna floodplains, the green panel has sought a response from an engineering and construction major on the issue. A bench, headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, issued a …
CHENNAI: The Southern bench of the National Green Tribunal has restrained two developers from dumping debris into Buckingham Canal. N Subburaj of Thoraipakkam said Olympia Infratech and ECR Coastline Resorts were developing a project named 'Jade' somewhere between Old Mahabalipuram Road and Buckingham Canal. After encroaching on a part of …
GHAZIABAD: Over the years, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has passed several orders against dumping of civic and construction waste along the banks of the river Hindon. It has also periodically pulled up the authorities on the issue. Yet, illegal dumping of waste continues unabated, with Kanawani village a favoured …
Irked over the failure of lake authority - LADWA - to halt encroachments in Dal Lake, Jammu and Kashmir High Court has appointed two Vigilance Commissioners for reporting any violation of the ban imposed on construction activities around the famous water body. “We are of the view that two independent …
Visit any construction site or a building, be it a house or office, that is being renovated and a huge eyesore is the waste and debris lying around. It is common for the building material to be spread all around, encroaching upon pavements, roads and parks, if any are around. …
Judgement of the Gujarat High Court in the matter of Platinum AAC Blocks Private Ltd. Vs State of Gujarat & Others dated 31/08/2015 regarding villagers opposing an industrial unit engaged in manufacturing of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) Blocks to construct a road to transport its vehicles and machineries to its …
A green body today welcomed the Delhi government's decision to mandate recycled products from construction and demolition (C&D;) waste for its building projects in future and urged it to to announce a composite policy on such wastes for improved collection. "This is an important move forward as construction and demolition …
Nagpur: The residents of Pension Nagar, behind Police Line Takli, are facing problems due to dumping of construction material in an open plot amid the residential area. The practice is turning out to be an environment hazard for residents. According to them, heaps of material including sand, gravel and cement, …
The researchers combined Landsat and MODIS data in a land model to assess the impact of urbanization on US surface climate. For cities built within forests, daytime urban land surface temperature (LST) is much higher than that of vegetated lands. For example, in Washington DC and Atlanta, daytime mean temperature …
The National Green Tribunal has pulled up Delhi government, Delhi Jal Board and the corporations for failing to submit progress reports on steps taken by them for reducing pollution in the Yamuna. It also issued directions to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for dumping construction waste on the riverbed saying that …
Quepem: Industrial waste, including some potentially hazardous types, is being dumped in blatant violation of the law for quite some time on a large scale in the abandoned laterite stone quarries at Pedamoll, Sirvoi. The waste comprises fibre, plastic, acid, other rejects and even medical waste, locals alleged. The abandoned …
The green technology embeds self-activating bacteria into concrete to make it self-healing, but will it win over a risk-averse construction industry? Of all the carbon emitters that surround us every day it’s easy to overlook one of the most ubiquitous: concrete. The material that builds our buildings, paves our roads …
GURGAON: The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has fined six developers amounts between Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 2.5 lakh each during the past month, after they were found violating the Union ministry of environment and forest's (MoEF) 2010 construction guidelines. The move followed the National Green Tribunal directive …
Dr Angus Gentle holding a piece of the special material over an existing cool roof to reduce air temperature around it.UTS A new material made of available polymers and a silver layer can cut down heat absorbed by buildings drastically. The polymer stack developed by scientists at the University of …
The National Green Tribunal (NBT) has asked builders to provide green belts around residential and commercial complexes. Arun Gupta, Director-General, Town and Country Planning, directed town planners to issue notices to all colonisers/change of land use(CLU) holders, whose building plans had been approved and where the construction work was in …
