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 …
CHANGSHA - Five people were confirmed dead and one was seriously injured in a fire that broke out at a barium nitrate plant in Central China's Hunan province early on Tuesday, local authorities said. The fire happened at around 5:30 am at Xinhuang Luxiang Barium Industry Co Ltd, in Fangjiatun …
At least 15 people were injured Wednesday after an explosion at a steel plant in central Japan, the latest in a series of accidents at the site. Television pictures showed clouds of black smoke billowing from the Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal facility in Tokai, which employs 3,000 people. A …
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Environmental investigators faulted Chevron Inc. site managers in a report released Wednesday on a natural gas well fire in western Pennsylvania that killed one worker. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection report said that a contract worker with no oil field experience worked on the well, contrary …
An explosion ripped through a chemical plant in East China's Changzhou city on Thursday evening. No casualties have been reported so far following the blast, which occurred at 7:50 pm after a fire started at around 6 pm in the chemical plant of Yanjin Shihua Co., Ltd. in Luoxi Township …
Following an industrial fire that broke out in Bnei Brak, the Environmental Protection Ministry on Sunday warned the public to avoid spending time outside enclosed buildings located within a 50-meter radius of HaYarkon 6 in the city. The warning came on Sunday afternoon due to the large amounts of asbestos …
The Orissa High Court on Wednesday directed the State Government to submit a status report on the health condition of the victims of Bhushan Steel plant mishap in Dhenkanal district. A bench of Chief Justice A K Goel and Justice A K Rath also issued notice to the Government, Managing …
About 70 people were taken ill after a sulphuric acid leak at a chemical company in California late on Monday, Los Angeles County Fire Department officials said. People in the Carson area complained of throat and nose irritation and vomiting after being exposed to an "apparent sulphuric acid release in …
Asking the Odisha government to submit a report on the fire and explosion at Bhushan Steel Limited’s (BSL) plant at Meramundali in Dhenkanal district, the Centre on Tuesday sent officials to inquire into the accident in which one person was killed and 19 others injured on November 13. “I have …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vajubhai Arsibhai Dodiya Ors. Vs Gujarat PCB Ors. dated 31/10/2013 on the accident at Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd. The applicants submit that on the night of 1st May, 2011, an accident took place in the cement plant due to which …
The owner of the detergents factory responsible for emitting ammonia gas which left 72 area residents in hospital on Tuesday, has agreed to shift the facility to Kalutara. Following agitations by people, he gave the assurance at a meeting he had with senior police officers, Buddhist monks and people’s representatives …
A toxic gas leak from a factory in a suburb of Sri Lankan capital prompted authorities to close the factory on Tuesday after more than 70 factory workers and residents near the factory were hospitalized following the leak. About 72 factory workers and nearby residents who complained of breathing difficulties …
Forty employees of a chemical factory and 30 persons residing in the neighbourhood were admitted to hospital following a gas leak at the factory in Piliyandala early yesterday. A special police team in coordination with the Central Environment Authority commenced an investigation into the gas leak at a chemical factory …
Initial investigations conducted by the Piliyandala police have revealed that ammonia gas which leaked from a factory in Piliyandala causing 72 persons to be hospitalised had been formed due to an accidental mixing of two chemicals in the wee hours of yesterday. A tense situation arose following the gas leak …
ENVIRONMENT The new report issued on September 27 by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says with much more certainty that humanity is causing climate change. India has voluntarily undertaken — without legal binding — to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 20-25% by 2020 and has a comprehensive …
The death toll in August 23 fire at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd's (HPCL) refinery here rose to 23 with four more workers succumbing to their injuries on Sunday. While three succumbed to their burn injuries in the hospital here, another one died at a hospital in Mumbai, HPCL sources …
Visakhapatnam: The death toll in the massive fire at state-run Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) refinery-cum-petrochemical complex here has risen to 14 with three more workers succumbing to burn injuries at a hospital here on Wednesday, an official said. M Srinivasa Rao, Krishna Chand and A Sanyasi Rao, who were undergoing treatment …
Three decades after the gas leak disaster, the abandoned Union Carbide plant still continues to pose a serious threat to the people of Bhopal as almost every study done so far to measure the impact of the toxic waste lying dumped both inside and outside the factory premises has established …
Three decades after it was shut down, the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal continues to be a real danger to the people of Bhopal. Almost every study done to measure the impact of the waste dumped within and outside the site by UCIL has come up with one conclusion there …
Terming court's decision to summon Dow Chemicals in the Bhopal gas tragedy case as an "important step", Amnesty International today demanded that the company must acknowledge its responsibility towards the survivors of the 1984 industrial disaster. A district court here yesterday directed the authorities concerned to send summons to the …
Four people were dead and another ten were injured after a carbon monoxide poisoning occurred at a chemical plant in Northwest China's Gansu province on Sunday night, local authorities said Monday. The accident happened at about 11 pm at a sodium sulfide manufacturing workshop at Gansu Jinshi Chemical Co Ltd, …
