Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Chemicals producers and governments agreed on Friday to step up efforts to push for greater safety in chemicals from lead in paint to microscopic substances. But non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said unless the industry and governments come up with more money, agreed targets for cleaning up chemicals by 2020 were unlikely …
Vijesh Kamath, Bangalore, DH News Service: The spate of hooch tragedies in the State has prompted the Government to regulate the use and sale of methanol. In this direction, the State government is planning to make it mandatory for adding a unique colour to methanol to distinguish it from other …
Nine dangerous chemicals used in farming and industry will be added to a list of banned substances whose presence in the environment causes serious health risks, more than 160 government agreed on Saturday. The nine pesticides and industrial chemicals join 12 substances targeted for elimination under the 2001 Stockholm Convention …
Experts and officials from some 150 countries started talks on Monday on banning production of nine chemicals considered potentially dangerous but still used in farming and for other commercial purposes. If agreement is reached at the week-long meeting, under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the nine …
The University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study was undertaken to address concerns that the discharge of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) from the Dow Chemical Company in the Midland, Michigan, area had resulted in contamination of soils in the Tittabawassee River floodplain and the city of Midland, leading …
The University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study (UMDES) was undertaken in response to concerns that the discharge of dioxin-like compounds from the Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland, Michigan, resulted in contamination of soils in the Tittabawassee River floodplain and areas of the city of Midland, leading to an increase …
Industry contributes directly and indirectly (through consumed electricity) about 37% of the global greenhouse gas emissions, of which over 80% is from energy use. Total energy-related emissions, which were 9.9 GtCO2 in 2004, have grown by 65% since 1971. Even so, industry has almost continuously improved its energy efficiency over …
A European Eco-efficient Economy has been prepared as a background report for the 2009 Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It forms a common basis for discussions at the informal ministerial meetings of the Council dealing with energy, environment and competitiveness . The objective is to facilitate …
The explosion that tore through the Bayer CropScience chemical plant here last August, killing two employees, was an easily avoidable accident caused by management decisions and human error, a federal agency said Thursday. A House subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on a fatal blast at a West Virginia chemical plant. …
Pradeep Gooptu / New Delhi April 09, 2009, 0:22 IST After nearly two years of relative calm, fresh tension appears to be brewing over the West Bengal government's plans to set up a Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) spanning Nayachar Island and the adjoining mainland comprising Haldia and …
The Village Committee of the Corlim Panchayat for the Regional Plan 2021 has strongly recommended that the Corlim Panchayat should neither allow new chemical and pharmaceutical companies nor an expansion of the existing industries in the village. At the Special Gram Sabha meeting of Corlim panchyat, Committee Member Dr Simon …
Calcutta, March 19: A state team will travel to Japan and South Korea to net investors for the Nayachar and Haldia chemical hub. Led by industry secretary Sabyasachi Sen, the team will be part of a larger delegation of the Union ministry for chemicals and fertilizers. It will meet top …
A United Nations body working on climate change has rejected a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project proposal submitted by Tata Chemicals, a Tata Group firm. Meanwhile, data with multilateral agency shows that Indian entities withdrew as many as six applications for projects related to cutting carbon emission, in 2008. The …
The state government is banking on its PCPIR project at Nayachar island, which is expected to create considerable economic advantage Kalyan Moitra THE chief minister of Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is betting big on Haldia. To all appearances, the petroleum, chemicals and petrochemicals investment region (PCPIR) project at Nayachar island - …
This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk to holisitc and multi-hazard risk management, site assessment, legal framework, district level DM planning, as well as capacity building. It also includes geological, meteorological, health and community issues in …
New Delhi, Feb. 20: The Union cabinet is likely to clear the Nayachar project next week, but only about a fifth of the 250sqkm chemical hub will be located on the island. The rest will be carved out of the existing industrial zone on mainland Haldia. Chemicals and fertilisers minister …
New Delhi, Feb. 3: The plan to build a chemical hub spanning Nayachar and Haldia is on course to the final date with the Union cabinet with a central committee approving a Bengal government presentation today. The committee also cleared an additional investment of Rs 400 crore which will be …
