The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on March 14, 2024, issued the Battery Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2024 to further amend the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022. The following has been stated namely: Rule 10 which states “Provision of Certificate for Waste Battery” the sub-rule (17) has …
AT&T; Inc (T.N) will pay $52 million in civil penalties and environmental compliance as part of a settlement with California over illegal dumping of hazardous waste but won't be required to clean up the resulting contamination, state officials said on Thursday. State officials said it marked the first enforcement action …
He also signed a bill setting a deadline for Exide Technologies' battery recycling plant in Vernon to comply with hazardous-waste laws, while vetoing broader changes to the state's toxic substances regulator. Scores of bills still await Brown's consideration before a midnight Tuesday deadline to act on bills including several gun …
Materials from discarded car batteries could potentially be recycled into solar panels, according to researchers. A team of academics at the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have proposed a system based on a recent technological development in solar cells that makes use of a compound called perovskite. According to …
Too few residents near the Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon have had their lead levels tested L.A. County can't gauge effects of air pollution from Exide plant as too few people are undergoing testing Los Angeles County's attempt to test lead levels in the blood of people living near …
California regulators expanded the lead soil testing area near the Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon At least 144 more homes will be tested for lead contamination near Exide battery recycling plant State regulators have greatly expanded the area of homes, schools and parks that will be tested for lead-tainted …
Scientists in South Korea say they have found a way of converting used cigarette butts into a material capable of storing energy that could help power everything from mobile phones to electric cars. In a study published on Tuesday in the journal Nanotechnology, researchers from Seoul National University outlined how …
U.S.-funded incinerators in Afghanistan unused, inspector general says Batteries, plastics, tires and aerosol cans tossed into open burn pits in Afghanistan, report says Although the U.S. has spent millions to build incinerators in Afghanistan to avoid exposing anyone to toxic smoke from open burning, American troops sent waste to an …
Washington state awarded $14.3 million in matching grants to three utilities to develop battery systems to store power from intermittent, renewable sources. The projects received funding from the state’s Clean Energy Fund, Governor Jay Inslee said Tuesday in a statement. The goal of the fund is to promote clean energy …
The High Court on Thursday declared illegal the running of battery-run rickshaws in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan cities. The bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar pronounced the verdict rejecting seven writ petitions filed by several trade organisations in Dhaka and Chittagong seeking directive to …
China established a non-profit organization on Monday to boost the electric vehicle (EV) industry with more cooperation in research, policy making and business management. Ministers and other senior officials of transportation, technology, science and reform, as well as scholars and entrepreneurs, attended the founding meeting of the China Association for …
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Saturday to oppose plans for a lithium battery factory, highlighting growing social tension over pollution. Police stood by as residents marched peacefully along a busy street in the Songjiang district of the city, gathering at an intersection near …
Shanghai is to introduce 200 new-energy buses in a bid to cut emissions and reduce noise, Xinhua News Agency reported on Feb 20. A new-energy bus, using electricity rather than petrol, could run for nearly 10 hours, or 150 kilometers, even if it is fully loaded with the air-conditioner working, …
In a remote corner of west Texas, in the shadow of a sprawling wind farm, one of the world's largest batteries was switched on last week. Deep in oil country, the battery is at the vanguard of efforts to help renewable energy sources realise their potential and, ultimately, oust fossil …
The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday eased off President Barack Obama's stated goal of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, and laid out what experts called a more realistic strategy of promoting advanced-drive vehicles and lowering their cost over the next nine years. Since Obama …
Government-level talks began Sunday at the United Nations in Geneva on forming an international treaty to regulate mercury trading and prevent environmental and health problems arising from the toxic substance. Government representatives from more than 140 countries are participating in the talks to craft a draft treaty. The talks are …
The Chinese government says it plans to increase the funds available for developing greener technology in the country's automobile industry. Officials said in a statement that the new research funds will be made available from within overall budgets for energy conservation and emission reduction. The initiative, 'New Energy Auto Technology …
China’s solar panel manufacturers, who dominate global sales with a two-thirds market share, are confronting growing trade and financial problems, a Chinese industry official acknowledged Tuesday, shortly before one of the industry’s largest companies, Trina Solar, announced weak results for the second quarter. The Chinese manufacturers “face challenges of decreasing …
Legal action will be taken against persons and owners of factories without any discrimination, who are involved in burning and illegally making the batteries causing envi-ronmental hazards in the rural areas as well as urban areas of the province. This was stated by Sindh Minister for Environment Shaikh Mohammad Afzal …
India is running one of the largest SPV programme among the developing countries. Storage batteries are being the most critical component of any SPV system in view of cyclic availability of the sun in 24h domain and the intermittent nature of available radiation. Since there is no systematic study on …
Environment Protection Department (EPD) Punjab issued notices to 110 polluter industrial units on Friday. EPD sources said that six squads were constituted last week in view of increasing cases of environmental pollution which was causing health hazards. The sources said industries were issued an environmental approval with certain conditions to …
