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 …
The guidelines for locating industries along the river banks as recommended by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) will be in effect till the State Government approves Regional Plan 2011. The State Government on Monday filed an affidavit in this respect in Public Interest Litigation in a writ petition …
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna is proposing to convert the 22-kilometre Yamuna riverbank stretch into a biodiversity zone, seen by experts as a radical ecological solution to the dying river. The lieutenant-governor (L-G), also chairperson of the Yamuna Development Authority, has asked the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) to …
As General Motors Corp prepares to sell its best assets to a streamlined new entity, the worst of what it owns will be auctioned off in bankruptcy court, including contaminated factory sites, parking lots in Flint, Michigan, and a nine-hole golf course in New Jersey. One property the carmaker is …
Ivory Coast sued Trafigura for dumping toxic waste THE High Court of Justice in London ruled that some testimonies against Dutch oil trading company accused of dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast will be heard in private. The ruling followed allegations that the company, Trafigura, was trying to influence witnesses. …
Simon Romero Claudia Albino, a washerwoman who earns about $3 a day and lives in a one-room hovel with her family in this bleak town of La Oroya in the Andes, might seem at first to have nothing to do with Ira Rennert, the reclusive New York billionaire who built …
European environment chiefs agreed new laws Thursday to crack down on acid pollution from heavy industries such as steel, power plants and refining, EU diplomats said. Existing power plants will have to comply with the new emissions standards by 2016, but countries can opt to phase the controls in between …
It has issued show cause notice to the plant VIRUDHUNAGAR: Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has found the chilly oil extract plant here guilty of polluting the environment. It has issued show cause notice to the plant seeking explanation as to why criminal action should not be initiated against …
Giridih, June 19: The villagers of Giridih are firm. They will not allow construction of any sponge iron unit in the district as past experience has shown that industrialists do nothing to check the pollution caused by the plants. After thwarting Shivam group
THE World Bank will extend a $180-million loan to India for upgrading its polluting coal-fired power plants and bringing down carbon emissions. The government has initiated a National Renovation and Modernization Program which, over the next decade, aims to rehabilitate old and inefficient power plants with a cumulative capacity of …
Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc.
A complaint will be lodged with the police, says RDO Stern action: Revenue Department and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board officials re-sealed 11 dyeing and bleaching units that were in operation even after they were found violating an earlier closure order.
Giridih, June 15: Villagers in Mohanpur on the outskirts of the town today opposed the new project of Swati Sponge there on pollution ground. At the first mass-level hearing on the upcoming sponge iron plant, the residents also criticised the role of the state pollution control board on the issue. …
New Delhi: Trying to distance itself from the controversial finance ministry report that recommended severe dilution of the environmental clearance process, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has said it had not asked for easing of environmental norms. In a statement, it said the industry association had often called for greater …
Giridih, June 14: After the district administration gave into public protests and scrapped a sponge iron plant project in Udanabad, it is now an NGO of Dhanbad that has joined the war against pollution caused by these units. A four-member team of Green and Labour Welfare said they had conducted …
DURGAPUR, 14 JUNE: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has asked state-owned Durgapur Projects Limited to prevent pollution caused by its coke-oven plant by 21 June. If the company fails to follow the order within the stipulated timeframe, the plant would be closed down. The chief scientist with the …
A high-powered team of Commerce and Industry Ministry would visit Himachal Pradesh within two weeks to hold talks with senior State Government officers to study the industrial growth potential of and make suitable recommendations for providing incentives, Union Minister Anand Sharma said on Sunday. Talking to mediapersons here he said …
Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) has claimed that the protests being held in Raichur about the installation of 2400 MW supercritical thermal power plant at Yedlapur and Yeramaras were unjustifed. KPCL MD S M Jaamdar said on Thursday that even though the land allotted to construct the plant in Yeramaras …
The High Court has ordered issue of notice to the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) for a resolution passed during its 160th board meeting dated November 13, 2007. The resolution sought to regularise the industries, whose licenses were cancelled for causing pollution, by levying administration charges. The Court was …
June 11: The MCD is considering issuing of showcause notices to those who have managed to get online licences under the orange category pertaining to polluting units with due clearance from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee or by forging its clearance certificates. Conceding that some unscrupulous elements have managed to …
