Industrial Waste

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Futala lake pollution, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 05/06/2025

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 …

Pharma city near Hyderabad will not cause pollution: KTR

HYDERABAD: Industries minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday sought help of the scientific community to talk to farmers and explain to them that the proposed world’s largest pharma city near Hyderabad will not cause pollution. At a meeting of the Telangana Academy of Sciences, the minister said it was understandable …

Tuticorin industries, thermal plants fuel pollution fears

Tuticorin: Activists and environmentalists fear that pollution which has been the scourge of Tuticorin city for decades may have taken a turn for the worse. Recently, Tuticorin stood 21st in a list of 94 polluted cities in the country identified by Central Pollution Control Board based on a five-year study …

Noida OSD among 14 warned of 50,000 pollution fine

Noida: The district administration on Thursday issued notices to owners or managers of 14 plots in Gautam Budh Nagar who were found to be violating National Green Tribunal (NGT) norms to check pollution. Apart from Noida Authority and the power department, other violators include institutions, industries and private plot owners …

Four industrial units in Pantnagar to face closure

RUDRAPUR: The regional officer of the state pollution control board (SPCB) has initiated the process of closure of four industries in Pantnagar industrial area in district US Nagar, after inspections found them violating norms set by National Green Tribunal (NGT). The companies failed to comply with orders issued by SPCB …

1,600 tonnes of hazardous waste illegally buried

ĐỒNG NAI — Chin Well Fasteners Việt Nam Company in Hiệp Phước Commune, Nhơn Trạch District, was fined VNĐ3.5 billion (US$154,000) for releasing untreated wastewater and directly burying 1,600 tonnes of contaminated waste. On Wednesday, the Department of Environmental Crime Prevention, also known as PC49, under Đồng Nai Province’s Police, …

Blame game begins in Taloja chemical hub over NGT order to deposit Rs 5 crore

NAVI MUMBAI: A blame game has started in the Taloja chemical hub after the National green tribunal (NGT) ordered its central effluent treatment plant (CETP) co-operative society to deposit Rs 5 crore for causing environmental damage over the years. Taloja industry association president Satish Shetty blamed the mess on the …

Pollution in village: NGT appoints amicus curiae

The National Green Tribunal has appointed a lawyer to assist it on a complaint of the residents of an Uttarakhand village, alleging discharge of untreated chemical effluents in drains by industries located in the vicinity. A bench headed by Justice Raghuvendra S Rathore appointed senior advocate Raj Panjwani and advocate …

Long-hidden toxic waste endangers Serbia's health, EU status

Pancevo – Discoveries in Serbia of rusty barrels stacked up in barns and mysterious liquids cemented behind walls in plastic tubs are triggering alarms. It is believed that tons of poorly secured hazardous industrial waste are hidden in the country, posing long-term environmental and public health dangers. The issue has …

PIL petitions to check water, air pollution in slum areas of Chennai

CHENNAI: A PIL petition has been filed in the Madras High Court to take steps on a war-footing to control air and water pollution in all slum areas in the City.The first bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice A Selvam, before which the PIL from Global Warming Environment …

Leather unit in which three died of asphyxiation sealed

Vellore: Officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) have sealed Maruthi Leathers, the leather unit where three workers were asphyxiated to death on Tuesday, at Periyavarikam village near Ambur on Thursday. The team led by TNPCB’s joint chief environmental engineer N Rajagopal and divisional environment engineer, Vaniyambadi, M …

Polluting firms identified: KT Rama Rao

About 100 polluting firms to be relocated to outskirts in 3 months. Hyderabad: About 100 pollution-causing industries located in the city would be shifted to the outskirts in three months, said industries minister K.T. Rama Rao. He told the Assembly on Thursday that about 1,234 industries located under GHMC limits …

Parliament panel perturbed over underutilisation of pollution control fund

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel has expressed its unhappiness over "unsatisfactory" utilisation of funds for pollution abatement by the environment ministry and asked it to "introspect" its performance and ensure optimal utilisation of funds and meeting of targets in future. The panel noted that the "very grim" scenario of environmental …

Inclusion of green norms in pharma regulations still a distant dream

HYDERABAD: Environmental pollution due to effluent released illegally by pharmaceutical companies, who sell their drugs in India and to many other countries, has been wrecking environmental havoc in Hyderabad since decades, and also resulting in development on novel Anti Microbial Resistance (AMR) genes in the environment. However, when it comes …

Tanzania: Dar es Salaam's River Pollution Threatens Millio

Dodoma — IT was once a lifeline of people around. But now, one of the mighty river in Tanzania commercial capital, which source its flows from Mbezi Luis and Kinyerezi suburbs, is now one of the most polluted rivers because of rampant dumping of industrial and human waste. Msimbazi River …

Industrial pollution in Nalagarh: Report presents a gloomy picture

SHIMLA: Failure of the authorities to check industrial pollution in Nalagarh area of Solan district is wreaking havoc on residents. A report submitted by the amicus curiae in Himachal Pradesh high court has revealed that there has been tremendous increase in the number of cases of renal diseases and gallbladder …

BSP starts constructing Secured Landfills

Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), the flagship unit of the public sector steel giant SAIL, has taken number of steps in recent years in exploring green technologies and adopting green practices, and the latest of such endeavour is the initiation of the project for Construction of Secured Landfill, a press release …

Industrial units spewing pollutants to be reined in

Shimla: The state government has decided to rein in industrial units releasing pollutants into the Sirsa river in the Shiwalik foothills. The toxic waste of the Baddi Barotiwala Nalgarh Industrial hub has been flowing into the Satluj for the past decade. Surprise visits will be made to industrial units to …

Going the tech way to solve environmental problems

Engineering students develop prototypes; 25 teams from colleges across south India to demonstrate projects at IIT-M Enterprising engineering students from across south India are developing prototypes to address issues such as reducing industrial waste and improving the environment. Around 25 teams of students from various colleges will demonstrate their prototypes …

Derabassi pharma industries to have CETP: PPCB

Patiala: Following efforts put in by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB), major pharmaceutical companies having their manufacturing plants in and around Derabassi in Mohali district have decided to come up with a Rs 80-crore common effluent treatment plant (CETP). Showing environmental concerns, the pharmaceutical companies have formulated a formed …

Toxic West UP rivers: NGT forms special panel to conduct 'intensive' survey of 316 industrial units

Meerut: Alarmed over “disturbingly high” levels of toxic metals in rivers passing through Western Uttar Pradesh, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday formed a committee of four experts to carry out an “intensive” survey of all the 316 factories located near their banks. The green panel’s move comes close …

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