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 …
Hoshiarpur: Contrary to the claims of the state government for preventing discharge of municipal and industrial wastes into the two main rivers of the Doaba belt, the situation has not shown any improvement. Though the government has taken up a scheme under the National River Conservation Project (NRCP), phase II, …
As part of the Global Methane Initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) is conducting a livestock and agro-industry resource assessment (RA) in India to identify and describe the potential for incorporating anaerobic digestion into livestock manure and agro-industrial (agricultural commodity processing) waste management systems to reduce methane emissions …
The supply of drinking water in vast areas of north Kolkata and the northern suburbs was affected after a 72-inch underground pipe of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation developed cracks this morning. The mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee, along with senior officials of the water supply department, rushed to the spot and …
TWO Common Ef fluent Treatment plants (CETPs), 86 dyeing and washing units attached to these CETPs and an Individual Effluent Treatment Plant (IETP) were closed down by the Tirupur branch of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday, as the units were found to be discharging effluents into …
The gram sabha of Sao Jose de Areal on Sunday resolved to oppose the setting up of the scrap yards in the Nessai Industrial Estate. The issue figured at the Sunday gram sabha when members demanded to know the fate of the scrap yards dotting the village countryside. When the …
A scientific study of soil and water samples taken from the region surrounding the controversial Sterlite Industries’ copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi has revealed a startling picture of environmental poisoning. The results of analyses of the samples by a US-based Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) scientist Dr Mark Chernaik attributes …
Unfinished tannery relocation in Bengal is typical of many MoEF projects, says CAG in its first-ever environment audit A major environmental project initiated in south-east Kolkata relocating more than 500 tanneries in an integrated leather complex spread over 1,100 acres has failed to take off even after 12 years of …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has been implementing an ambitious programme of pollution abatement of rivers in India. It started in 1985 with the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) and gradually extended to other polluted rivers through National River Conservation Plan (NRCP). The current programmes covered under NRCP include …
The Union environment ministry has cleared the construction of a 9,900MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh made this announcement in Mumbai on Sunday and said that his department has prescribed 35 conditions and safety measures. The Union envi Nov. 28: The Union environment …
The Bantala tanneries are posing a risk to the environment because of the failure of the state and the Centre to complete the construction of the common effluent treatment plant in the 12 years since work on the leather hub started, the CAG has said in a report.
A major step has been taken to make the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) drive to make the Buddha Nullah in Ludhiana pollution-free a success. The board has directed all eight large electroplating units of Ludhiana to adopt the zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology by December 31. In case the …
- Centrally-sponsored project at AAU department explores use of by-product Jorhat: A project sponsored by the central department of science and technology at Assam Agricultural University (AAU) to explore the use of flyash in the agricultural sector has shown
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has asked all sponge iron industries in the State to follow pollution control measures as per the norms set by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The KSPCB organised its first ever workshop on
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the London-listed Vedanta group company to give details about the steps being taken by it to comply with the environmental norms at Sterlite
While continuing its stay on the Madras high court order for closing of Sterlite, a subsidiary of MNC Vedanta in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Monday admitted the company
Providing impetus:Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin giving away grant to CETPs in Tirupur on Sunday. COIMBATORE: The State Government had made a series of efforts to find a permanent solution to the effluent problem in Tirupur, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said at Tirupur on Sunday. Giving away Rs.150 crore …
Nangal: National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) released seeds of catla fish into the Sutlej yesterday to compensate for losses caused to the flora and fauna with it released industrial effluents into it recently. SDM Lakhmir Singh and NFL senior officials released the first batch of 35,000 catla fish seeds. In total, …
The highly toxic red sludge that has reached the famed river Danube after a reservoir holding industrial waste burst in Hungary is a major environmental disaster, exposing major weaknesses in the European Union's environment protection regime. At the MAL Zrt aluminium plant near the Hungarian village of Ajka, 165 km …
Toxic red sludge from a Hungarian alumina plant reached the Danube on Thursday and crews struggled to dilute it to protect the river from what the prime minister called an "unprecedented ecological catastrophe." Experts said damage beyond the borders of Hungary was unlikely to be great but the threat had …
Hungary: A toxic red sludge spill from an alumina plant in western Hungary reached the Danube river on Thursday and crews were trying to dilute it to protect the major European waterway. Tibor Dobson, a spokesman for Hungarian disaster crews, said there were no reports of fish death in the …
