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 …
Himachal Pradesh government on Monday decided to monitor lean-period water discharge in the rivers from hydro power project on a real time basis and use geo-informatics space applications for photo monitoring of dumping in all upcoming projects in the state. The government decided for real time montioring after a meeting …
Raids conducted by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on 68 electroplating industries in Jalandhar and Ludhiana have found 42 of them flouting norms that make it mandatory for industries to ensure waste is treated at the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Ludhiana. PPCB Chairman K S Pannu said …
The MoEF has been implementing a centrally sponsored scheme for Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) since 1991. In the light of the operational deficiencies in the earlier scheme, the development of pollution control technologies and the recommendations of SPCBs related thereto, a need was felt to revise the earlier guidelines for …
Valero Energy Corp's 132,000 barrel per day (bpd) San Francisco Bay-area refinery in Benicia, California, reported the shutdown and the startup of a unit on Friday, according to a notice filed with California pollution regulators. The refinery released 500 pounds of sulfur dioxide in excess of the refinery's permitted levels, …
BHUBANESWAR: Jindal Stainless Ltd has been awarded the prestigious Pollution Control Appreciation Award 2011 for excellence in Pollution Control Management in industrial sector. The award has been instituted by Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB). It was conferred on Jindal Stainless on the occasion of the 28th Foundation Day function …
The metals company whose broken reservoir killed 10 people last year when several Hungarian towns were flooded with caustic red sludge has been fined the equivalent of about $647 million for environmental damages. The 25-acre reservoir at the plant owned by the MAL Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company released …
Himachal House panel reccomends action against the companies for failing to ensure minimum prescribed flow of water The Himachal Pradesh Assembly’s standing committee on Irrigation and Public Health (IPH) has found hydro-power companies — both in the public and private sectors — defying mandatory provisions of the power policy regarding …
Availability of surplus iron ore prompts Jharkhand to provide special incentives to set up pellet plants Jharkhand has emerged as the first state to make it mandatory for companies with captive iron ore mines to set up pellet plants to utilise their increasing deposits of iron ore fines. Availability of …
A rotten stench hung over a 60-mile stretch of Louisiana's Pearl River as boats trawled through thick layers of hundreds of thousands of dead fish, and sweating workers bent to scoop the carcasses from the water. The fish, including federally protected Gulf sturgeon as well as catfish and flounder, died …
Bathinda: The announcement by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on the shutting down of the ash-spilling 440 MW thermal power station of Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) in the heart of the town here has come as music to the ears of local residents who were suffering because …
The High Court yesterday directed the government to immediately take steps against five readymade garment factories at Ashulia of Savar for polluting farmlands, water bodies and air of adjacent areas by releasing toxic waste. The factories are Mozrat Knitting and Dyeing Limited, Kazal Garments, Nasirullah Cotton Mills, Apparel Village Ltd …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a textile mill Tk 71.50 lakh at Hotapara in Gazipur for polluting the Turag river and an adjacent water body with untreated liquid waste. A DoE team led by Munir Chowdhury, director of monitoring and enforcement, penalised Masuma Khatun Textile Mills Ltd for …
KOLAGHAT, 9 AUG: The city may have got their plates full with delicious hilsa this season, but they are missing out on the much sought-after Kolaghat special. Pollution in the Rupnarayan river and monsoon troughs are not enticing the hilsas to come ashore. Mr Surojit Bag, additional director of fisheries …
Biswas Synthetic, a component of the Biswas Group, was fined Tk 1.44 crore on Monday by the Department of Environment for polluting the water-bodies and cultivable land of Pakuriya Beel in Dhamrai-Ashulia near the capital. A DoE team, led by its director Muhammad Munir Chowdhury, conducted a raid on the …
Ranchi, Aug. 1: Jharkhand High Court today directed East Singhbhum deputy commissioner to probe into the alleged dumping of slag by Tata Steel in Kharkai and Subernarekha rivers in Jamshedpur. A division bench of acting Chief Justice Prakash Tatia and Justice H.C. Mishra were hearing a public interest litigation on …
A Department of Environment team on Sunday realised Tk 71.36 lakh in fine from two dyeing factories, one in the capital and the other in an area adjacent to it, for not using any effluent treatment plant and thus polluting the River Turag. DoE director (monitoring and enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, …
BHUBANESWAR: Sponge Iron manufacturers have desperately sought the intervention of the State Government in facilitating easy and adequate flow of raw materials including iron ore and coal. There is a tremendous mismatch in demand and supply which has led to gross escalation of prices of iron ore. As a result, …
Broiler chickens (raised for their meat) are produced by the millions in industrial facilities concentrated in just a handful of states in United States of America, and much of the waste they produce ends up polluting the nation’s waterways. “In just over 50 years, the broiler industry has been transformed …
ROURKELA: Amid continuing environmental fear, the Sundargarh administration is waiting for the lab test report to ascertain if the water of the river Brahmani was polluted due to accidental release of fly ash. Due to heavy downpour on Thursday night, a large amount of fly ash deposited at the slag …
The High Court yesterday directed the government to stop use of tannery waste in poultry and fish feed production in the capital within 30 days. Delivering a verdict on a writ petition, the court also ordered the government to shut within this period the factories and business enterprises which are …
