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 …
China's Environment Ministry has put in place a 24-hour monitoring system for pollutants from explosions this month at a port and will report accurate and timely data to the public, it said on Friday. The blasts at a warehouse storing chemicals in the port city of Tianjin, not far from …
THE death toll in the Tianjin hazmat warehouse blast was updated to 135 yesterday, while 38 others remain missing, rescue authorities said. All the dead have been identified, including 81 firefighters and seven policemen. The missing include 23 firefighters and four policemen. Hospitals in the northern port city are still …
TIANJIN - The death toll from a warehouse blast in north China's Tianjin Municipality has risen to 123, including 70 firefighters and seven policemen, authorities said at a press conference on Sunday. All victims' identities have been verified. Fifty people remain missing, including 34 firefighters and four policemen, nearly two …
Chinese authorities warned that cyanide levels in the waters around the Tianjin Port explosion site had risen to as much as 277 times acceptable levels although they declared that the city's drinking water was safe. The local government, under pressure from China's leaders in Beijing to improve industrial safety, also …
Safety hazards have been found at almost 70 percent of firms handling dangerous chemicals inspected in Beijing since two massive blasts killed 114 people last week, including a branch of Asia's largest refiner Sinopec Corp, state media reported. An inspection of 124 sites that stored dangerous chemicals in the Chinese …
South Korea's Hanwha Chemical Corp said there had been an explosion at one of its plastic production plants, leaving five dead and one person missing. The explosion occurred during welding work to expand a waste water disposal facility at its No.2 plant, located in Ulsan, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) …
The Delhi government’s draft disaster management plan warns that should a powerful earthquake strike the national capital, it would wreck more devastation than a nuclear bomb explosion. Six minor earthquakes in 10 days sometimes is the precursor to a large one. The current local seismic behaviour is very similar to …
A major fire broke out in wild vegetation on the premises of Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram thermal power plant, Yamunanagar, on Thursday afternoon. Three fire tenders were pressed into service to control the fire. Sources said the fire was reported on the thermal premises at about 3 pm. It broke …
May 11 India's Numaligarh Refiners Ltd said on Monday it had extinguished a fire at the hydrocracker unit at its 60,000-barrel-per-day plant in the northeastern state of Assam and had resumed the process of starting up the entire plant in phases. The refinery has been closed for about a month …
Hundreds of protesters marched in western Turkey on Monday, demanding harsh sentences for mining company executives at the start of their trial over the deaths of 301 miners, the country's worst industrial accident. The underground fire last May sent deadly carbon monoxide coursing through the mine in the town of …
A blaze at a Fujian chemical plant roared back to life last night several hours after it was reportedly extinguished, fanning fears over public safety and environmental fallout from controversial petrochemical projects. State broadcaster CCTV reported that some firefighters were recalled to the paraxylene (PX) plant in Zhangzhou after fires …
At least four people died after a fire broke out on a Pemex oil processing platform in the Gulf of Mexico early on Wednesday, leading to the evacuation of 302 workers, the Mexican state-run oil company said. The fire, which burned throughout the day, erupted overnight on the Abkatun Permanente …
Two people died and at least 13 were injured after an explosion at a factory belonging to Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, police said on Monday. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Officials at the company could not immediately be reached. …
Judgement of the Delhi High Court in the matter of Harish Chander & Ors. Hindustan Petroleum Vs Corporation Ltd. & Ors dated 23/02/2015 regarding restraining the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) from constructing and operating its Petroleum Storage Depot at Tikri Kalan, Delhi. The Applicant has requested the Court for …
A worker at Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Tuesday after falling into a water storage tank, the latest in a spate of industrial accidents at the site of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, the world’s worst since Chernobyl. The death is the second in Fukushima in …
In 1995, India’s Parliament passed the National Environment Tribunal Act. The law was to provide compensation to victims of environmental accidents. It was to ensure special courts quickly decided damage, liability and compensation caused by industrial disasters — not only to people but to the environment also. It was passed …
Thirty years after India’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in …
As one enters old Bhopal’s Arif Nagar area, there are two enduring reminders of the city’s toxic legacy that goes back to a fateful winter night three decades ago, when 30 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate gas leaked out of the Union Carbide factory. Along Berasiya Road, one of the many …
New York: Victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy have filed an appeal in a higher court here contesting a lower court's decision that Union Carbide Corporation cannot be sued for the ongoing contamination from the chemical plant. The appeal has been filed in the US Court of Appeals for …
