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 …
Earlier promises yet to be kept by TNPL, allege people Cement plant to cost Rs. 78.11 crore Effluents have destroyed fertile area: MLA KARUR: Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd
Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) is a rational number to characterize the environmental quality at a given location following the algorithm of source, pathway and receptor. Increasing value of CEPI indicates severe adverse effects on environment and also is an indication of large percentage of population experiencing health hazards. CEPI …
This work introduces a new approach to integrating the discharges of industrial processes with macroscopic watershed systems. The key concept is that environmental quality models (such as material flow analysis) can be inverted and included in an optimization formulation that seeks to determine the maximum allowable target for the process …
This first-of-its-kind environmental assessment report by CPCB has identified 88 pollution hotspots in India. Of this, 10 have been rated as 'alarmingly' polluted and 33 clusters as critically polluted. 32 others are seriously polluted & remaining are in the warning zone. The results of the application of the Comprehensive Environmental …
This technical EIA guidance manual for asbestos based industries accordingly addresses the related environmental concerns duly taking into consideration the requirements of all. The reviewers and sanctioning authorities make use of this report including the checklist and the questionnaire to ensure that the impacts of the project on the environment …
Patancheru, near Hyderabad, India, is a major production site for the global bulk drug market. Approximately 90 manufacturers send their wastewater to a common treatment plant in Patancheru. Extraordinary high levels of a wide range of pharmaceuticals have recently been demonstrated in the treated effluent. As little as 0.2% of …
Very high levels of a range of pharmaceuticals have been reported recently in the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant near Hyderabad, India. The plant serves approximately 90 manufacturers of bulk drugs that primarily are exported to the world market. Fluoroquinolone antibiotics were found at levels that are highly toxic …
Textile processing plants operating in and around Kolkata utilize a wide variety of dyes and other chemicals. Many of these chemicals are not retained in the final textile product but are discarded after they have served their purpose or are driven off into the atmosphere during heat treatment. The main …
The purpose of the present study was to describe the pattern of Spatial Pollution Rose pattern in the neighbourhood of thermal power stations in Neyveli, near 200 km south west of Chennai.
Four representatives from the industry, who had been included in the high-level committee constituted by the state government for the installation of Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) in the city, have been asked to attend a meeting with the Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), tomorrow in New Delhi. These …
ANGUL: In order to dispose of over burdened ash in its ponds, Nalco has decided to give cash incentives to the lifters. At present Nalco is providing pond ash free of cost to the end-users. It has been decided to provide Rs 100 per cubic metre subjected to minimum lifting …
All hazardous waste generating industries in Goa have been via a notice issued by the Goa State Pollution Control Board directed to make an application to the Board on or before January 4, 2010, for obtaining authorisation as required under the Hazardous Waste (Management, Handling and Trans-boundary Movement) Rules, 2008, …
SHILLONG: The State Government has blamed the cement companies operating in Jaintia Hills for contamination of Lukha river water. "I am fully aware that the pollution of the river are due to the extensive coal mining and the increasing number of cement plants coming up in the district," Chief Minister …
A study of the displacement and resettlement due to two dams, and a protest movement against a smelting plant in Thailand brings out strikingly similar issues with those seen recently in Orissa and West Bengal
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said the country's environmental challenges were costing Rs 365 billion to the national exchequer and said the government was fully aware of this situation, while making concerted efforts for meeting this challenge. Addressing at the distribution ceremony of Green Journalists Awards. The …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh could boast of owning the country's biggest leather complex, if plans of UP State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) actualise. In a significant move, the corporation is planning to set up a Leather Park sprawling over an area of 1,500 acre in Unnao, bordering Kanpur district. "The UPSIDC …
New Delhi: Fifteen years after they were first notified, the environment ministry on Wednesday released new and tougher air quality norms under which residential and industrial areas will have the same standards. However, the new norms will merely help to measure air quality at the moment as it will take …
New Delhi, Nov. 18: India has revised standards for air quality for the first time in 15 years in a move that environmental experts say will overnight tar more cities and localities across the country as polluted beyond limits. The new standards notified by the environment ministry have lowered maximum …
Nov. 15: One in every three Hyderabadi households has access to drinking water supply only once in four or five days. About 30 lakh people living in 10 of the total 12 surrounding municipalities forming part of the GHMC continue to be hard pressed for drinking water. Lack of drinking …
Accepts panel report that self-certification is not enough and expansion impacts need scrutiny. An amendment proposed in the Environment Impact Assessment rules and opposed staunchly by green groups will now be carried out only in a very diluted form, taking care of the concerns expressed by environmentalists. The committee appointed …
