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 …
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 …
Many areas of the Greater Tel Aviv Dan region are still suffering from soil and groundwater contamination whose source is industrial activity that took place decades ago and threatens drinking-water sources and buildings, a new report from the Water Authority states. Considerable preventive and rehabilitative measures will be needed in …
Victoria is not ready for an unconventional gas industry, with environmental controls too few and the risks of the industry not fully identified, a wide-ranging report from the state's Auditor-General's Office has warned. Potential resources of unconventional gas in the state were unknown, while risks connected to unconventional gas activities …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has expressed its displeasure over the failure of the government and the civic agencies to clean the city where waste could be seen anywhere on the streets. In what started two months ago as a matter concerning contaminated water pumping out of supply lines and …
Eight firms are being sued for dumping untreated waste in northwest China's Tengger Desert as part of a high-profile public interest litigation filed by a non-profit organization. The Zhongwei Municipal Intermediate People's Court in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region received the cases filed by the China Biodiversity Conservation and …
Dozens of dry cleaners may be polluting the soil and ground water in Israel due to their use of toxic materials, but the required oversight is lacking, according to a new report prepared for the Water Authority. The dry cleaner with the greatest risk potential is located at Sheba Medical …
Residents in a village in China do not eat the crops they grow nor drink their local water as their soil and groundwater have been severely polluted by chemical plants nearby. The residents of Yuanshi county’s Beisu village in Hebei province have found a foamy, pungent substance in their water, …
Left parties opposed the project saying it would affect livelihood of fishermen and farm workers in the area due to discharge of ash contaminating groundwater and causing ocean pollution. Environmental public hearing by Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) on NTPC's 4,000 MW coal-fired power plant began amid protests by …
THE National Water Commission (NWC) will, in another two weeks, be starting clean-up work on wastewater systems in eight communities across Kingston, St Catherine, and Clarendon. Under the US$12-million pilot programme, some facilities will be rehabilitated, while others will be rebuilt, or decommissioned. The ultimate aim, said the commission, is …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Doaba Paryavaran Samiti Vs. State of U.P. & Ors. dated 07/08/2015 regarding groundwater pollution in the Districts of Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Samli, Meerut, Bagpath and Ghaziabad caused as a result of effluents being released under ground by …
Production process of shale oil and gas results in high emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that contributes to global warming and pollution of the environment and groundwater, potentially causing underground rock slides, says a study conducted by the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), a regional Arab financial organisation, established …
