Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
TWO people were killed after a waste water treatment device exploded Sunday night in a chemical plant in east China's Shandong Province, local government said Monday. The explosion occurred at around 8:20 p.m. in a plant of Lianhetech, a chemical firm listed in the Shenzhen stock market, in Pingyuan County, …
When the annals of corporate accountability, culpability and negligence in India are compiled, the erstwhile Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) is sure to top the list. But not far behind will be Hindustan Unilever (HUL). On4 March, HUL reached an out-of-court settlement with 591 of its former employees from the now …
A worker for Sinopec's Addax Petroleum was missing after an oil tank exploded in Gabon, the company said on Sunday. Addax said the cause of the accident on Saturday, which occurred at the Obangue-East oil producing site, was unclear and that an investigation was underway. The accident injured six other …
It is 30 years since the beginning of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It is also five years since the Fukushima disaster began. To mark these anniversaries, Greenpeace has commissioned substantial reviews of scientific studies examining the continued radioactive contamination in the affected areas, and the health and social effects on …
A chemical plant in Taichung of central Taiwan caught fire Monday morning, with two workers missing, local media said. Explosions were around 5:51 this morning, and photos posted on social media showed fire and thick smog at the site, according to China Times. Police has arrived to put out the …
A fire that broke out at a chemical factory in Lengshuijiang, Central China's Hunan Province, on Saturday night may have put the local environment in danger, environmentalists said. Volunteers from Green Hunan, a Chinese environmental protection NGO, posted pictures on their official WeChat account of wastewater from firefighting being discharged …
Bangladesh has far more factories engaged in the global garment business than stated by its industry and millions of people working in them are exposed to unsafe conditions, a U.S.-based study said on Thursday. Bangladesh's $25 billion (17 billion pounds) garment industry has been in the throes of a safety …
Five workers were hurt when a fire broke out at the Lazaro Cardenas refinery in Minatitlan in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, state oil and gas company Pemex said on Thursday. Pemex said in a statement the fire in a catalytic plant that had been closed for maintenance …
Azeri state energy company SOCAR said that 29 workers missing after its oil platform in the Caspian Sea caught fire on Friday were feared dead, and President Ilham Aliyev declared a day of national mourning. SOCAR said on Sunday that one worker had been killed and 33 rescued, out of …
Govt. claiming less compensation than in 1985: Bhopal gas victims In 1985, it asked for $3.3 billion while it is $1.2 billion now, they say Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have claimed that the Union government is claiming less in compensation than what it did 30 years back. While …
BHOPAL: Last Monday, just two days before the 31st anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster, the Madhya Pradesh high court issued a notice to the Union government, the MP state government and medical research organizations to respond to a plea by Disaster survivors that they were guilty of contempt of …
Three decades after the Bhopal gas lead killed a few thousand people overnight, the struggle continues for its survivors. A number of issues concerning the survivors of the disaster, termed the biggest industrial accident in history, seemed close to resolution this year, but none was resolved.
NGOs working for the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy today slammed the central government for its failure to take up the UN-aided assessment of current toxic contamination at and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory, the site of world's worst industrial disaster. Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh …
Italian energy group Eni said two people had been killed in an accident at a Sicilian plant operated by its Versalis chemical unit, prompting trade union calls for a strike to protest over working conditions. The two workers, employed by a third-party contractor, had been carrying out inspection work at …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has issued directions under section 18 (1) (a) of the Water Act and the Air Act to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to ensure better implementation of Public Liability Insurance (PLI) Act, 1991. The Public Liability Insurance (PLI) Act, 1991 makes it …
The death toll from an explosion at a chemical plant in China's Shandong province late on Monday has risen to five, state news agency Xinhua reported, as China still seeks answers to a far larger blast in the port city of Tianjin earlier last month. The latest blast happened close …
An explosion shook a chemical plant in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, state media said on Tuesday, though there were no immediate reports of casualties in a country on edge after blasts killed more than 145 people last month. A single "loud" blast occurred at the plant in Dongying …
Five people died and six were injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory on Monday near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain, officials said. The cause of the blast at the factory on the outskirts of the city near the airport was unknown. The explosion at the factory, which makes fireworks …
Industry minister, Miao Wei, says local government and companies involved would have to subsidise plans made to help improve pollution levels Local governments in China have submitted plans to relocate or upgrade almost 1,000 chemical plants in the wake of the massive explosions in Tianjin earlier this month that killed …
Industry minister, Miao Wei, says local government and companies involved would have to subsidise plans made to help improve pollution levels Local governments in China have submitted plans to relocate or upgrade almost 1,000 chemical plants in the wake of the massive explosions in Tianjin earlier this month that killed …
