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 …
The US Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday said it sees no reason to tell consumers to stop using products such as baby bottles made with a controversial chemical found in many plastic items. Norris Alderson, the FDA's associate commissioner for science, said although the regulatory agency is reviewing …
DEBATE The two issues that remain are whether Dow inherited Union Carbide's liabilities and why the government never cleaned up Bhopal after settling with Carbide Scot Wheeler, Director Communications, Dow Chemicals, Midland, US
An additional sessions judge from Bhalwal has directed the police to register a criminal case against the owners of a chemical factory located on Lahore-Sargodha Road for draining toxic water into a pond that killed five people of a family a few months ago. Proceeding on an application filed by …
Burning hazardous waste at the BEIL - Drum flying out of the fire Burning hazardous waste at the BEIL - Part 1 Burning hazardous waste at the BEIL - Part 2 Burning hazardous waste at the BEIL - Part 6 Exclusive footage: Watch fire videos at www.cseindia.org a fire at …
On March 28, following a high-powered state committee's report clearing the project, Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh gave Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd's proposed research and development (r&d;) centre in Shendi village near Pune the go-ahead to begin construction. Work on the project, that is to come up on 40 …
MPCB"s new consent conditions • Dow to issue an undertaking that it would not use any chemicals banned by the Indian government • Install three ambient air quality monitoring stations • On monthly basis monitor ground water quality within the vicinity of the five-kilometre area of its proposed plant • …
The UPA government, it seems, has moved to implement a proposal backed by several key ministers, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the Prime Minister's Office that Dow Chemicals' business be facilitated in India even while the government pursues a case against it in the Bhopal gas disaster. …
THE Madras High Court has restrained Sri Padma Chemicals Private Limited in Choonambedu village in Kancheepuram district from dumping its chemical waste on the lands outside the factory premises. The First Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Prabha Sridevan gave the direction on Friday last, while passing …
Canada's decision to label as toxic a chemical that is used to make a popular form of plastic has created headaches for some makers of baby bottles, sports water bottles and other food and beverage containers. Sally McCoy, the chief of CamelBak, a sports bottle maker, switched plastics, even though …
An environmental group has tested dogs and cats for chemical exposure and found some levels much higher than in humans. The analysis, being released today by the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group today, found levels of brominated flame retardants (used in furniture, fabrics and electronics) in cats 23 times higher …
spoiling act: A group of activists has alleged that a few countries led by Canada are sabotagingun's Rotterdam Convention. The ten-year old convention aims to control global trade in hazardous chemicals. Environmental, gender, labour and health groups from India and abroad have, in a joint statement, said the countries, including …
One worker was killed and another was injured in a Monday morning blast at a chemical factory in Yokohama, police and firefighters said. Bare Frames are all that is left of a chemical factory building in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama, after an explosion Monday morning. KYODO PHOTO The blast occurred at …
HOPE AND FUTILITY:March 16, 2008. Padyatris rest at a school in Farah, after a 28 kilometer trek from Agra. The marchers are aged between 11 and 82 THERE IS a face of our democracy that you only see when you follow a 60-year-old woman marching 800 kilometres on swollen knees. …
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL), the R&D; arm of the US-based Honeywell Technologies, will invest $15 million to set up a chemical catalyst R&D; facility in Hyderabad. This will be the second facility for the company here. The company has requested the Andhra Pradesh government to allot 10 acres for …
The Maharashtra government has given away about 40 hectare (ha) of grazing land to Dow Chemicals for a research and development facility in Shendi village, 30 km from Pune. Villagers say they were kept in the dark about the Rs 400-crore facility and their dairy business suffered huge losses. Activists …
At least two industrial workers were killed and seven others received burn wounds in an explosion at a chemical unit in the Tarapur MIDC early on Sunday. Two workers were killed and seven others received burn injuries in an explosion in a chemical unit in Tarapur MIDC, the industrial estate …
the Maharashtra government has given away about 40 hectares (ha) of grazing land to Dow Chemicals for a research and development facility in Shendi village, 30 km from Pune. Villagers say they were kept in the dark about the Rs 400-crore facility and their dairy business suffered huge losses. Activists …
