Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …
It was like the loss of innocence, one of the first incidents to open humankind's eye to what industrial pollution can do. One of the earliest tragedies caused by chemical pollution was the painful death and disability that afflicted thousands of people living around Japan's Minamata Bay in the 1950s-60s. …
russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( cis ) are working with the United Nations Environment Programme ( unep ) to dispose of toxic wastes in an environmentally-sound manner. At two separate meetings held in July, experts from the cis and a number of organisations met …
What is the status of groundwater in the industrial areas of Andhra Pradesh? Studies conducted by the State Groundwater Authority and National Geophysics Research Institute, Hyderabad, in the Bolaram and Patancheru areas, Medak district, have shown groundwater to be contaminated by high levels of toxic organics, chlorides, sulphates and arsenic. …
seventeen units of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (gidc) have been served prohibitory orders by the district magistrate of Vapi in Valsad district, Gujarat. This was in response to a study conducted by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (gpcb) which found that the units were disposing waste without treating them. …
the top five states in India that have major discharges of untreated domestic wastewater are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. According to a recent survey by the Union ministry of environment and forests, these five states generated more than 63 per cent of the total wastewater and …
A Cambodian court convicted two Taiwan men in absentia over the dumping of about 3,000 tonnes of mercury-tainted waste last year. The court in the southern port city of Sihanoukville sentenced Chang Ku Fung and Kao Chee Song to five years in jail and ordered them to pay more than …
GANDHAR KARMAKAR is nine years old. He has only one eye, and suffers from paralysis. Elder to him by three years is Motiram. He suffers from osteoporosis (general bone damage). Dunia Uraon, also just short of his teens, is another unfortunate adolescent. His mother suffered three miscarriages before giving birth …
japan's health and welfare ministry will publish the names of privately operated incinerator facilities that exceed legal cancer-inducing dioxin emission limits, said ministry sources. It has also decided to release data on dioxin emissions at all government incinerating facilities, the sources said. The decision was taken in response to growing …
The municipal authorities in the capital have shown no signs of improvement in solid waste management despite Supreme Court's directives, said the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in the latest report submitted to the Delhi High Court. The apex court had directed the CPCB and the Delhi pollution Control Committee …
the Environment Pollution Authority ( epa ) was set up in 1998 on the order of the Supreme Court to monitor the steps taken by the Union government and the Delhi government for controlling environmental pollution in Delhi. The epa chairperson, Bhure Lal, at a press conference held in Delhi …
California community activists have joined hands with local and international environmental justice organisations in denouncing plans to re-dump mercury-contaminated waste near Westmoreland, California (Down To Earth, Vol 7, No 18). Mercury-contaminated waste was first illegally dumped in Cambodia by the Taiwanese company, Formosa Plastics, late in 1998. Following the dumping, …
burying waste paper and wood permanently locks away large amounts of carbon that if burnt would escape into the atmosphere and speed up global warming. The us now says it wants to include landfills as carbon sinks under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions. This could lead …
The city of Shangqiu in central China's Henan Province is still polluting the Huaihe River. The river is a famous waterway in central and east China, and it runs through several provinces. The Beijing-based newspaper Workers ' Daily reported that inside Shangqiu, several branches of the Huaihe were full of …
IN a bid to stop illegal dumping of pollutants into the nation's water systems, South Korea's environment ministry will conduct a three-day nationwide investigation of suspected polluters in four major rivers. Ministry officials said the investigation will focus on some 600 industrial units, restaurants, hotels and dairy farms which allegedly …
the us Supreme Court did not change the ruling that said that the federal government may be sued for damages resulting from a failure to collect nuclear waste from disposal sites. The judges rejected lower court ruling that the government could not be required to dispose of wastes but could …
eleven years ago, about 4,000 metric tonnes of toxic incinerator ash was dumped from the city of Philadelphia, usa, near the town of Gonaives in Haiti. The waste was to be shipped back to the us in mid-November 1998. But the Caribbean Dredging Excavation, the company entrusted with collecting the …
ground water survey by the Central Ground Water Board in Delhi has revealed the presence of heavy metals like cadmium, chromium, lead and iron in excess of the prescribed standards. This was revealed by the Union agriculture minister, Som Pal. The minister said that the government had contemplated several short-term …
A writ petition has been filed in the Andhr* Pradesh High Court challenging the establishment of the garbage storage, treatment and disposal plant at Dindigal in Hyderabad. The plant is spread over 200 acres. The petition was filed by Purshottam Reddy of the 0smania Univcrsity@ Hyderabad. He argued that the …
SHOULD the use of plastics be banned? This question has triggered off a debate on the production, use and ultimate disposal of items made of plastics in India. Three states - Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Goa - have already passed legislations banning their use. During Sahib Singh Verma's tenure as …
GREEN PEACE activists have built a dam on Israel's Kishon river to block toxic effluents from flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. The effluents are mainly discharged by the heavy petrochemical industries, located along the Kishon, which have turned the river into a virtual waste canal. A study conducted by the …
