Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Odisha State Pollution Control Board has directed producers of electrical and electronic equipments to collect ‘end-to-life’ electronic items and channelize those to authorized dismantlers or recyclers under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). “The producers of electronic goods have to obtain authorisation from Central Pollution Control Board. The producers will collect e-waste …
Kochi: Rejecting the explanation given by Sree Sakthi Paper Mills Ltd, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has ordered the company to close down the unit and halt all process/production activities resulting in effluents and discharging the same into Periyar. According to PCB notice, the mill has to remain …
India, which has emerged as world's second largest mobile market, is also the fifth largest producer of e-waste , discarding roughly 18.5 lakh metric tonnes of electronic waste each year, a study says. The telecom equipment alone accounts for 12 per cent of the e-waste, a joint study by Assocham-KPMG …
New Mexico sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an agency contractor and two mining companies on Monday over the 2015 breach of an abandoned Colorado gold mine that spilled some 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater into three states. The Gold King Mine rupture, which was accidentally triggered by an …
The Peruvian government has announced a 60-day emergency in the southeastern jungle Madre de Dios region. The move – which will affect 11 districts in the state – comes after blood samples from the local population showed alarmingly high levels of mercury in their bodies due to widespread illegal gold …
In a sweeping synthesis of global data, the United Nations Environment Programme has intensively catalogued environmental assaults across the six different major regions of the globe. And it finds that, overall, damage to the planet is happening more rapidly than before, through slights ranging from air pollution, to the proliferation …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M/s P.S. Industries & Others Vs. Delhi Pollution Control Committee & Others dated 24/05/2016 regarding disposal of hazardous waste by a small scale industry, Delhi. NGT directs the industry to maintain its ETP properly and ensure that it does not …
Overflowing garbage landfills in the national capital, which have been saturated way beyond capacity, are already simmering inside. Last month’s Bhalswa fire incident has not made any impact on authorities so far. Routine checks are not being conducted to keep a check on such hazardous incidents. Delhi’s three landfills, Bhalswa, …
South Africa’s government said operating mines should pay two-thirds of the cost of cleaning up toxic water pollution caused by more than 100 years of mining in Gauteng, the country’s richest province that includes Johannesburg. A long-term plan to treat so-called acid mine drainage will cost as much as 12 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of M/s Ashok Vihar Mitra Mandel Vs. The Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 19/05/2016 regarding dumping of hazardous wastes containing heavy metals in the green belt, Delhi. Report submitted before the Tribunal points out that soil is highly …
Bhopal: While the Madhya Pradesh government is gearing up for 'Vaicharik Mahakumbh' at Ninaura village, near Ujjain, social activist Ajay Dubey has filed a petition before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), raising objection to uprooting old trees, raising concrete structures and wastage of water at the mega event venue. The …
The ministry of environment, forest and climate change recently redesignated the electronic waste disposal business as a red-category industry. According to the ministry, red-category industries pose the biggest threat to the environment because they generate the highest pollution load in the sector. This re-categorisation, however, has not stopped the illegal …
India generates 18.5 lakh metric tonnes of electronic waste each year, with Delhi (98,000 MT) second on the list after Mumbai (1.2 lakh MT) as the biggest contributor. Proper disposal of e-waste is important because of hazards posed to health by the materials used in electronics, but almost a third …
The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) Southern Bench here has ordered for a CB-CID probe into the alleged sale of solid bio medical waste by hospitals, after it was brought to its notice that the waste from a Chennai-based private hospital was being sold at Rs. 49 a kg to a …
Illegal factories process 95% of all e-waste and are flouting safety norms; they are also taking business away from licensed recyclers ohammed Sabir spent his childhood learning to dismantle broken circuit boards. It was a reliable source of income for a long time, but the health hazards of handling toxic …
The National Green Tribunal has directed Uttar Pradesh government and state pollution control board to shut illegal scrap recovery operations in the outskirts of the national capital. "We direct Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to take all measures to stop operations of the factories which are running illegally...In District …
Agra: Days after TOI reported that Agra Municipal Corporation's plan to appoint a Kanpur-based company to dispose the city's biomedical waste was in violation of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) norms, the UPPCB has cancelled AMC's proposal to sign a temporary three-month contract with Medical Pollution Control Committee (MPCC). …
Hundreds of people have held a rare protest in Vietnam against the unexplained mass death of fish on the country's central coast. Vast numbers of dead fish have appeared across some 200km (125 miles) of coastline since early April. A government investigation has so far found no links to a …
A CSX freight train derailed in northeastern Washington on Sunday, spilling hazardous material near a subway station and disrupting commuter rail and long-distance Amtrak passenger trains but causing no injuries, authorities said. Thirteen rail cars were strewn across the tracks at the derailment site in the early morning incident, District …
Bhopal: National Green Tribunal (NGT), central bench, directed AIIMS Bhopal that an affidavit be filed with regard to time frame within which construction and operationalization of STP, ETP and compliance of biomedical waste rules would be done. It also gave directives for rectifying shortcomings as pointed out in a report …
