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 …
KOLONTAR (Hungary): The toxic red sludge that burst out of a Hungarian factory's reservoir reached the mighty Danube on Thursday after wreaking havoc on smaller rivers and creeks, said an emergency official. The European Union and environmental officials both fear an environmental catastrophe affecting half a dozen nations if the …
Untreated effluents discharged into water channels Units in BP Agraharam,and Kaniravurtharkulam found guilty Revenue officials conducting raid in a tannery unit at Mamarathupalayam in Erode on Wednesday. ERODE: A team of officials from the revenue department and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) conducted surprise checks at the tannery units …
Budapest: Hungary declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after a toxic mud spill killed four people and injured 120 in what officials described as Hungary
A person involved in ship-breaking business would face punishment of up to 10 years' imprisonment and a fine of maximum Tk10 lakh for polluting environment or causing health hazard, said a new provision included in the environment protection law. The parliament passed a bill yesterday incorporating some other stringent provisions …
The Environmental Protection Agency has designated Newtown Creek, between Brooklyn and Queens, a Superfund site, promising a thorough environmental cleanup of a long-neglected waterway that was once one of the busiest hubs of industrial activity in the city. The Superfund designation, which was announced on Monday by the agency
ERODE: The Kalingarayan Pasana Sabhai has urged the State government to initiate concrete measures to check the discharge of untreated effluents of textile and tannery units into the water carrying channels. A resolution to this effect was adopted at a meeting of the association that was organised here recently. The …
This document contains the letter to the Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Gandhinagar on cancellation of Public hearing for Kutch Power Generation Limited, Bhadreshwar. The Adani Group promoted company Kutch Power Generation Limited (KPGL) is proposing a 3300 MW coal based power plant in Bhadreshwar village of Mundra Taluk, Kutch district, …
Madhya Pradesh will have Exit Policy for sick industries. In order to keep cities pollution-free, tehsil level waste processing industries would be encouraged for which special provisions would be made in the renewed Industry Policy. This was informed during discussions on the new provisions of proposed Industry Promotion Policy at …
Ghaziabad: The heavy discharge of industrial effluents has severely affected aquatic fauna at the Ramsar site, set up in River Ganga in 165 km stretch from Bijnore to Narora in Uttar Pradesh. Ramsar sites are a tag for critical water bodies across the globe. Discharge of toxic wastes such as …
BHUBHNESWAR: The State government on Thursday constituted a state-level squad to monitor proper implementation of various laws and regulations by new industries coming up in the State. The squad will be headed by chairman and managing director of Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) Priyabrata Patnaik. The squad will have …
Solidification/stabilization (S/S) technology was applied to a simulated sludge containing chromium. Leaching tests such as toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP), ANS 16.1 and multiple TCLP tests conducted on stabilized blocks showed that chromium was immobilized by the binder studied. A linear relationship was obtained between the cumulative fraction of chromium …
The Kundalika, Amba and Vashishti rivers near Mumbai are polluted with a high content of organochlorines and other persistent organic pollutants, as per the pre-monsoon tests undertaken by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on the rivers. The contamination is a result of industries letting out their untreated water into …
A formal assessment of power plant effluents dispersion and sediment transport processes taking place with respect to the prevailing environmental conditions such as, flow regime, wave climate, wind effects etc. in the open waters of Bhadreswar region, Gulf of Kutch plays important role in the finalizing the designs of CW …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Water Resources Minister Jayant Malaiya said in the Assembly today that there had been no policy underlined so far by the Housing and Environment Department for disposal of toxic waste of the now-closed plant of Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL). The Minister in a written reply to …
Solan: Detection of toxic chemical phenyl from the viscera of dead fish, which were killed in Chikni river early this month, has set alarm bells ringing for the State Pollution Control Board. These findings have emerged from the twin reports of two laboratories of the pollution board as well as …
The Assam Electricity Regulatory Commission has proposed to start Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) under a new regulation and has notified a draft Solar Tariff Regulations which will be applicable from the current financial year. It must be mentioned here that the AERC has adopted the terms and conditions of Central …
A COMMITTEE of Parliament visited the slaughterhouse in Meerut on June 10 to enquire if it was polluting the Kali Nadi river that flows through the city. A seasonal river that once provided irrigation and drinking water to 44 villages in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, Kali Nadi has turned …
