Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
The National Green Tribunal today pulled up the Delhi government and North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) for inordinate delay in operationalising Bawana waste-to-energy plant. The green panel issued notice to the project proponent of Bawana plant while seeking its reply as to why it has not been made operational till …
The HCM City Department of Planning and Investment has petitioned the municipal People's Committee to allow Trisun Green Energy Co. to conduct research about the use of thermal plasma technology at a solid waste treatment plant. Under the company proposal, the plant will use plasma technology to incinerate waste and …
Gurgaon: Putting the idea of recycling into action, a city-based student has founded his own social venture where he aims to recycle all the tyres which have served their time. The web platform, called Tyrelessly, was launched by Anubhav Wadhwa, his third venture at the age of 16. Wadhwa founded …
KOCHI: The state cabinet on Tuesday granted approval to set up the proposed waste-to-energy solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram. The project has been awarded to GL Nature Care Consortium. The annual excess expenditure of Rs 6.34 crore to implement the project will be met with Suchitwa Mission funds. The …
From January 1, small and big hotels, hospitals, shops, malls and other commercial establishments will have to pay solid waste tax. "The decision has been taken by civic chief Sanjeev Jaiswal as the process of solid waste management is expensive," said Ashok Burpulle, deputy civic chief. While people await New …
The civic authorities constructed a waste-to-energy plant at the site to dispose waste and check pollution, but the plant is far from being operational. The over-saturated Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi is one of the biggest contributors to the alarming level of air pollution in the region. While the …
A power plant in the French Alps is using leftover waste from nearby cheese production facilities to generate enough electricity to power 1,500 households in the surrounding area. The power plant in Albertville, Savoie, owned by biofuel producers Valbio, uses excess residual skimmed whey - an unneeded by-product of making …
Global car manufacturers General Motors has announced that all of its Vauxhall facilities across Europe are 100% landfill free, with the facilities either recycling, reusing or creating energy from daily waste operations. Vauxhall facilities in Luton and Ellesmore Port were the latest assemblies to officially send zero waste to landfill …
Visakhapatnam: The state government has failed to tap energy from industrial waste in Vizag though the city is one of the vibrant industrial corridors. According to the annual revenue requirement filed with the Electricity Regulatory Commission, the AP Eastern Discom will have to procure 111 MW of power generated through …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association & Ors. Vs. State of NCT of Delhi & Ors. dated 17/12/2015 regarding waste to energy plants at Bawana and Gazipur. National Green Tribunal constituted a team to visit the three waste to energy plants …
The Uttarakhand government will set up a waste to energy project with the help of BSR Green Energy, Hyderabad. This will ease part of the waste burden of 18 local bodies with the help of the green technology. So far, successive state governments have failed to put in place a …
This paper compiles nine in-depth case studies of sub-national climate mitigation programs that exceed or lead national policy directives. From California to Rajasthan, India, these case studies reveal a range of local partnerships that exhibit strong climate leadership. In addition to examining the policy frameworks that make these accomplishments possible, …
The science fair venue of the Kerala State Schools Sasthrolsavam 2015-16 at St. Aloysius High School here de facto turned out to be a mine of innovative designs from the minds of students reflecting their concern for the environment. Recycling of plastic waste and energy from waste received much focus. …
Centre Allocates Rs 96.5 Crore To Kejriwal Govt For First Phase Of Swachh Delhi Abhiyan Keeping their differences aside, the BJP-ruled Centre and municipal corporations and the AAP-led Delhi government came together for the first time on Sunday with the joint initiative of cleaning up the capital. Launching the Swachh …
The National Green Tribunal today warned the authorities of the Okhla waste-to-energy plant of shutting it down if it did not urgently instal equipment to segregate solid waste and continued to burn them, causing pollution. It also directed the Central Pollution Control Board and Delhi Pollution Control Committee to inspect …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association & Ors. Vs. State of NCT of Delhi & Ors. dated 18/11/2015 regarding waste-to-energy plant in Okhla, Delhi. Tribunal noted that the plant is not working effectively which ultimately leads to discharge of pollutant higher …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M/s. Subhashri Bio Energies Private Limited Vs Government of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 18/11/2015 regarding poultry farms in and around the District of Namakkal which generate huge quantity of waste of about 2500 MT of poultry …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Irfan Ahmad & Ors. Vs. Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora & Ors. dated 16/11/2015 regarding municipal solid waste management at Jammu and Katra and passage upward to Bhawan and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi. The NGT directed the authorities to present …
The government’s Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) cell has okayed a Rs.295-crore solid waste treatment plant in Brahmapuram. The cell has given in-principle approval for the financial and technical proposals submitted by one of the companies that participated in the tender process. The Hindu has learnt from senior officials close to the development …
Safely obtained biogas from human waste could generate electricity to power all of the households in in Indonesia, Brazil, and Ethiopia combined, if researchers can harness the correct innovative technologies. That's according to a new report from UN University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, which estimates that biogas …
