Report filed by the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board in the matter of News item titled 'Residents stage protest against pollution caused by Vijayawada Thermal Power Station" which appeared in the Hindu, November 4, 2024. The report was dated February 22, 2025. M/s Dr. Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Station is …
Britain's worst oil spill for over a decade appeared to be entering its final stages, as the leak from Royal Dutch Shell's faulty North Sea pipeline slowed to a trickle. "The rate of leakage from the flowline to the Gannet platform continues to decline and currently stands at less than …
Fuel leaked from Enterprise Products Partners' natural gas liquids pipeline into the Missouri River in Iowa has dissipated or evaporated with little chance of recovery, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Tuesday. The leak sprung in a 10 mile stretch of Enterprise's Conway North 33,600-barrels-per-day pipeline, which extends …
The team of divers deployed to check the wreckage and assess the amount of oil spillage happening from the tanks of sunk ship MV Rak Carrier began their operation on Thursday by identifying wreckages and marking them using three markers. The divers could not get to the seabed where the …
Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has written to the Union environment ministry as well as the shipping ministry about the need for India to become a signatory to two international conventions that fix liability for marine pollution and oil spills. TOI had written about the need to sign the conventions earlier …
A federal panel sketched out its first vision of a regulatory roadmap for the booming shale natural gas industry on Thursday, urging more transparency on the use of chemicals and more careful treatment of waste water. In a report closely watched by leading energy companies who fear higher costs from …
As the oil spill from the sunken MV Rak carrier continues to threaten fisheries and mangroves, the question being asked all around is why did the authorities not take prompt and adequate measures to plug the source of the leak. A thin layer of lubricant oil was first spotted at …
India's Mundra port has banned ships older than 25 years of age from entering its waters after a sunken cargo ship leaked oil off the coast of Mumbai last week, a maritime firm said on Wednesday. Panama-flagged cargo ship Rak Carrier, carrying 60,000 tonnes of Indonesian coal, sunk last Thursday …
The Gujarat Government has decided to ban entry of ships above 25 years of age at ports which come under its administrative control. The move follows the sinking of the 27-year-old ship, m.v. Rak Carrier off the Mumbai coast last week, while on its way to the Gujarat port of …
A storm battering the northeast Chinese coast on Monday whipped up waves that threatened a dyke protecting a chemical plant, forcing residents to flee while soldiers and firefighters rushed to fill the breaches, news media said. The waves slamming the coast near the port city of Dalian in Liaoning province …
A Union Pacific freight train carrying more than 60 cars, some loaded with hazardous substances, derailed on Friday in a desert town north of Los Angeles, prompting evacuations of nearby homes, fire officials said. However, there was no sign of fire, and no injury or damage to surrounding buildings was …
The danger of more oil leaking from Exxon Mobil Corp's ruptured pipeline in Montana has ended, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The Silvertip pipeline burst on July 1, spilling an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil, or 1,000 barrels, into the scenic Yellowstone River. Exxon has now drained the two segments …
Exxon Mobil said it had begun preliminary work to replace the pipeline that ruptured and spilled an estimated 1,000 barrels of oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana two weeks ago. Exxon, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said it was aiming to meet federal requirements on corrective action …
Water downstream from a ruptured Exxon Mobil pipeline that leaked oil into the Yellowstone River showed no detectable levels of toxic petroleum chemicals, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents released on Saturday. But Montana environmental officials told Reuters that in the week since the spill at least five people …
Thousands of baby pelicans grunt and hiss at their parents in tightly packed nests on Gaillard Island, a feathered paradise situated off the coast of Alabama. The 1,300-acre, man-made island is hosting more than 50,000 birds this summer as nesting pairs gather to raise babies. That number would be considered …
Governor Brian Schweitzer vowed on Tuesday to cling to Exxon Mobil like "the smell on a skunk" for as long as it takes to get the company to clean up a weekend oil spill that fouled an otherwise pristine stretch of the Yellowstone River in Montana. A 12-inch Exxon pipeline …
An Exxon Mobil pipeline that ruptured late Friday along the Yellowstone River in south-central Montana, spilling crude oil into the river and forcing evacuations, had been shut down for one day in May because of concerns over the rising waters on the Yellowstone, the company said Sunday. Oil in a …
With Cuba preparing to explore for oil 60 miles from Florida, the complicated politics of U.S.-Cuba relations are impeding U.S. efforts to get ready in case of a BP-style accident, analysts and oil experts said. The Obama administration must do more to ensure that U.S. companies can quickly mobilize safety …
The fund BP set up to deal with compensation claims after last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill is working too slowly, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday. The fund is not sufficiently transparent and requires too much documentation from claimants, said Holder after a visit to Orange …
Tons of radioactive water were discovered on Tuesday to have leaked into the ground from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, the latest in a series of leaks at the plant damaged in a March earthquake and tsunami, the country's nuclear watchdog said. More than three months after the disaster, authorities are …
