Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhishek Panwar Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 20/05/2025. The miscellaneous application was registered on the basis of the report of the joint committee dated July 20, 2024 filed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) …
RAJOURI, Nov 17: Indian Council for Enviro-Legal Action (ICELA) announced committee for villages Dhangri and Saranoo in Rajouri district to organize plantation programmes, awareness among the general masses and raise the issues of environment pollution and moral degradation. The committee members included Arun Kumar as president, Ashok Kumar as vice …
Moving over from conventional methods, the brick manufacturers of Saurashtra and Kutch are preparing to tune into new technology. With the support of The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and the Central government, brick producers of the region are planning technological upgradation at their units. So far, the industry has been …
Solan: With the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) directing induction furnaces and steel units to get their non-hazardous slag treated through the Shiwalik Hazardous Waste Plant, investors resent that the board had made it compulsory to get this waste treated from the hazardous plant which was contrary to the laid …
Under the supervision of Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) Director General Asif Shuja Khan, demolishment of 27 brick kilns at Loi Bher has entered its first phase. Overall, 95 kilns would be demolished in Rawalpindi and Islamabad for purification of environment. Owners of these kilns would be converted to Clean …
BHUBHNESWAR: The State government on Thursday constituted a state-level squad to monitor proper implementation of various laws and regulations by new industries coming up in the State. The squad will be headed by chairman and managing director of Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) Priyabrata Patnaik. The squad will have …
INDIA'S brick industry is the second largest in the world. Since bricks are best produced from alluvial soil, the unorganised industry flourishes in the fertile belt; the Gangetic plain accounts for 65 per cent of the total brick production in the country. But once brick kiln owners wind up operations, …
Brick kiln sites in an Indian dry tropical peri-urban region, differing in the period of exposure to industrial activity and distance from the brick baking centre, were investigated seasonally for their impact on plant biomass (aboveground and belowground), diversity structure and soils. A total of 72 angiospermic plant species distributed …
BERHAMPUR: Are granite bricks an answer to the dust pollution generated by the processing and polishing of granite slabs? If Ganjam Granite Cluster Association (GGCA) is to be believed, the dust can be put to good use. To drive the point home, it has begun the trial production of granite …
An advocate of natural farming methods for more than a decade, Kanchipuram-based Gandhi Gopalakrishnan was shocked to see lush mango farmland turning infertile by the dumping of rice husk ash (RHA). "The farmers are deceived by claims that RHA helps the fertility of the soil, when the contrary is true," …
An advocate of natural farming methods for more than a decade, Kanchipuram-based Gandhi Gopalakrishnan was shocked to see lush mango farmland turning infertile by the dumping of rice husk ash (RHA). "The farmers are deceived by claims that RHA helps the fertility of the soil, when the contrary is true," …
Biomass plants: Low tariff, no permission to sell power to other states worry entrepreneurs Biomass these days is the new buzzword for Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, who dreams to generate 1,000 MW of power from renewable sources of energy in the next two years. His cousin and Finance Minister, …
The environmental committee of the Sasthra Sahitya Parishad district committee has demanded the government to curb the increasing number of brick making units and unscientific granite mining in the district. The increasing number of brick making units in Panamaram Panchayat and the manual sand (M-sand) making units and granite quarries …
The West Bengal pollution control board shut down 49 illegally operating brickfields in Nadia district after the high court rapped the government for laxity. Chief law officer of the board Biswajit Mukherjee said the brickfields did not have official consent for operating and were operating without proper pollution control measures. …
Talcher Hundreds of illegal brick kilns over a stretch of 25 km on either side of the Brahmani river from Samal to Dasanali and Jhadiambaa villages in Talcher are creating large-scale soil erosion and pollution. Incessant lifting of soil and sand from the river bed has left huge number of …
Newark (California): Forget microchips. Silicon Valley sees a profitable future in the humble brick thanks to a low-energy production process that illustrates the greening of the US technology capital. Brick maker Calstar Products is backed by venture capitalists whose vision is to create buildings less expensively and in a way …
SMALL and isolated patches of coal reserves will now be offered to fuel starved local industries such as small power plants, cement and steel units, and brick making facilities without going through the lengthy allocation process. The government is finalising new policy guidelines for `allocation of isolated small pockets of …
The brick manufacturing industry in Tripura is passing through a tough time with the State Government importing bricks from Bangladesh. Around four crore bricks will be imported from the neighbouring country to meet ever- growing demand of bricks in Tripura where development is not the fast-track. Of late, the government …
The brick manufacturing industry in Tripura is passing through a tough time with the State Government importing bricks from Bangladesh. Around four crore bricks will be imported from the neighbouring country to meet ever- growing demand of bricks in Tripura where development is not the fast-track. Of late, the government …
The brick-kiln owners in the state have opposed the government notification asking them to use fly ash for making bricks. As per the notification, a brick-kiln in 100 kilometre radius of any thermal plant is required to add 25 per cent of fly ash in the material used to make …
