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 …
‘Games organisers toeing company line' There were fresh calls on Thursday for an independent inquiry into Dow Chemical's controversial sponsorship of the London Olympics after Meredith Alexander, a leading environmentalist, resigned from the Games' ethics committee — the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 — protesting against Dow's links with …
KOCHI: Rising levels of pollution caused by plywood manufacturing units in Kuttippadam village in Perumbavoor is slowly forcing the residents of the area to abandon their homes in search of a healthier place to live. The once-serene and peaceful neighbourhood of Kuttippadam, a village at Vengola Panchayat of Perumbavoor, is …
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has served showcause notices to more than 50 hospitals over the last few weeks for flushing out waste water, and liquid biomedical waste, without chemically treating them. Highly toxic in nature, they can be a source of severe health hazard if not treated properly, …
SAMBALPUR: Even as the cause of death of saplings in Hirakud Command Area is being debated, former MP of Sambalpur, Bhabani Hota said extreme pollution levels in water and toxicity could be a reason. Hota told medipersons on Thursday that according to a study of Sambalpur University in the 90’s, …
Rahul Wadke The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has asked Mumbai Waste Management Ltd, a hazardous waste management company with a facility near Mumbai, to incinerate 10 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide's Bhopal plant. The company is keen to dispose of the waste, provided the pollution control …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, while permitting Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin to continue the operations at its copper plant, directed the company to file a fresh application before the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for grant of consent to run the plant. A Bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and …
Tired of agitating, Sukhdev Vihar residents ‘invite' officials, politicians Many protests, agitations and petitions later, the residents of Sukhdev Vihar – one of the most densely-populated residential colonies located next to the Okhla-Timarpur waste-to-energy incinerator – have a unique proposition for Delhi environment officials and politicians: “Come spend a day …
TOXIC SPREAD - Vapi:The Daman administration has initiated stringent vigil over its territory which is seeing massive illegal dumping of untreated industrial effluent from Gujarat industries. Officials said this effluent is brought in tankers and dumped in the natural drains of Daman. The administration swung into action when a team …
The Suchitwa Mission has recommended setting up at Brahmapuram a mega plant capable of processing about 500 tonnes of municipal solid waste generated daily in Kochi corporation areas and nearby municipalities. Experts associated with the mission told The Hindu on Monday that the plant will work on a German technology …
Following the model of Kanyakumari district, the Corporation has finally decided to impose ban on the production, sale and use of non-recyclable non-degradable plastic products within its jurisdiction. “The ban will come to effect within next two months,” Mayor Vijila Sathyananth announced in the council meeting held here on Wednesday. …
Flex banners made of poly-vinyl chloride are a serious environmental and health hazard. They can cause cancers and infertility. Municipal authorities and the Pollution Control Board have failed to prevent people from burning flex banners thrown in dustbins and at dump-yards. The city produces lakhs of flex banners as politicians …
In the wake of Nagpur-based DRDO lab refusing to conduct tests on samples of toxic waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday directed the Centre to get it tested in any lab in the country and submit report to the …
SILCHAR:Grave concern was expressed by the intellectuals and experts at the way river Barak, regarded as the lifeline of this valley, was getting polluted and views were articulated on the measures to contain it. Dr Tapodhir Bhattacharya, vice-chancellor of Assam University, who inaugurated the function at Gandhi Bhawan here on …
The residential-cum-commercial complex coming up near the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) refinery at Chembur is now the subject of much ping-ponging between the state and the courts. A petition had been filed by HPCL challenging the upcoming construction. It cited security threats to the refinery, and also potential health hazards …
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is considering dumping water it treated for radiation contamination into the ocean as early as March, the firm said on Thursday, prompting protests from fishing groups. Tokyo Electric Power, (Tepco) the utility operating Fukushima's Daiichi plant, hit by a powerful tsunami …
At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator said Sunday. Nearly nine months after Fukushima Daiichi was ravaged by an earthquake and tsunami, the …
No projects being submitted by local bodies for burning biomedical waste from local hospitals are acceptable as incineration of hazardous toxic waste is highly harmful, warn Health Department officials here. According to the officials, the local bodies should ensure that the projects for burning the biomedical waste complied with strict …
Reports of a large number of fish dying in a river in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district have raised concerns about the toxicity of the water, particularly as it joins the Teesta river further downstream. “The reports of the deaths of large numbers of fish in the Karola river first came …
A team of Department of Environment (DoE) fined two factories Tk 56 lakh yesterday for discharging toxic waste to the Shitalakkhya in Narayanganj. The factories are Fatulla Fabrics and Robin Tex (Bangladesh) Ltd. The team during its drive did not find presence of oxygen in the liquid waste though there …
