Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M. Kumaravel Vs The Collector, Kancheepuram District dated 10/10/2015 regarding environmental degradation caused due to open defecation by the fishermen community at Muttukadu Tsunami relief tenements located in S.F.No.97/3, Muttukadu Village, Kancheepuram District and to construct an …
Order of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming in the matter of State of Wyoming & Others Vs United States Department of the Interior & Others dated 30/09/2015 regarding regulations applying to hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands. Know More
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. A. Kishan Rao & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 30/09/2015 regarding pollution caused by M/s. Sri Chaitanya Chlorides Pvt. Ltd., Patancheru, Hyderabad.
The Tribunal had constituted a core committee to monitor the potential hazards of industrial development in Singrauli area and five sub-committees for quantification of industrial pollution and impact assessment of water, air, soil and health in and around Singrauli. The committee informed the bench that ground water in the villages …
Groundwater pollution in Aravalis caused by tonnes of untreated waste lying near defunct Bandhwari waste treatment plant is leading to diseases like skin lesions, bloody diarrhoea and dermatitis among people from neighbouring villages. Meenu, a 7-year-old boy from Bandhwari village and Raju, a 23-year-old man from Dera village, have developed …
Groundwater in south Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad risks contamination by decaying municipal waste being stashed at a landfill site in the Aravalli hill area of Gurgaon. A petition filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) by Gurgaon residents Vivek Kamboj and Amit Chaudhery on Tuesday claimed that the Bandhwari waste …
The protest against dumping of garbage at the 90-year-old yard at Sadupperi continued as villagers along with Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) cadre staged a demonstration on Wednesday. As a threat, a few villagers doused themselves with kerosene. There are nearly 18 villages around Sadupperi where the Vellore Corporation has been …
Environmental activists have approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over severe damage to the Aravali forests, particularly along the Gurgaon-Faridabad and Gurgaon-Delhi roads. They have listed indiscriminate dumping of waste, as well as destruction of the groundwater table and its poisoning at the Bandhwari sewage treatment plant as causes. Environmentalist …
The National Green Tribunal today sought the government's response from on a plea seeking relocation of a waste treatment plant and landfill site from Aravalli hill area in Gurgaon, claiming it has led to water contamination in the area. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notices …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Parminder Singh Vs. Punjab PCB & Ors dated 23/09/2015 regarding pollution caused by M/S Matharu Chemical Industries, Sangrur District, Punjab. According to the petitioners the said unit was manufacturing H-acid, i.e. Sodium Salt, which is highly …
Fracking by the U.S. oil and gas industry has increased the burden on the nation's water resources, but still accounts for less than 1 percent of America's total industrial water use, according to a paper by researchers at Duke University published on Tuesday. The controversial extraction method consumed roughly 48 …
Calcutta tops the chart in generating e-waste after Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bangalore and Chennai. An ill-equipped disposal system has ensured that a major chunk of the e-waste is crudely dismantled or burnt in a little over 1,000 informal units in the city and suburbs, exposing millions to health hazards, a Metro …
Some of the top companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange are flouting environmental laws and not telling their shareholders, according to a study by the Centre for Environmental Rights. The CER assessed 20 companies listed on the JSE and found that between 2008 and 2014 many of them violated their …
Rivers in western Uttar Pradesh like Kali, Krishna and Hindon have been polluted to dangerous levels because of the industrial waste released illegally into them by the industries. So grave is the pollution that they have also contaminated the groundwater of hundreds of villages located on the banks of these …
The National Green Tribunal today directed chief secretaries of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to attend a meeting this week for devising a plan for improving water quality in six districts of western Uttar Pradesh. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the chief secretaries to be present …
Residents of Hoai Duc district's Duong Lieu Village complain they have had to live for years with pollution caused by thousands of cubic metres of untreated waste water discharged from the nearby food processing workshops. "Pollution has affected the ground water, leading to residents' drilled wells smelling horribly," said Nguyen …
Aurangabad: Taking serious cognizance of pollution caused by industrial effluent in Waluj MIDC the National Green Tribunal (NGT) criticised the Maharashtra pollution Control Board (MPCB) 'soft' actions. The tribunal said that the MPCB should take stringent actions but generally resorts to steps like forfeiting of the bank guarantee which will …
Hydraulic fracturing technologies, developed over the last 65 years, have only recently been combined with horizontal drilling to unlock oil and gas reserves previously deemed inaccessible. While these technologies have dramatically increased domestic oil and natural gas production, they have also raised concerns for the potential contamination of local water …
FUKUSHIMA – Fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday approved a plan by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to take contaminated groundwater continuously flowing into the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and dump it into the ocean after removing almost all radioactive materials from it. The plan is one of Tepco’s …
Greater reliance on heavy tube wells to meet the drinking water requirement of the city and unscientific exploitation is slowly depleting and polluting groundwater here. It could also jeopardise future water supply in the city as the government has failed to develop any alternative source of potable water. J&K; is …
