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 …
Health officials have found E-coli bacteria in all groundwater samples collected from Birampur in Greater Noida, where 200 residents had fallen ill over the past week. Health officials have distributed chlorine pills among villagers to purify the water before consuming it. However, villagers said they are concerned as this is …
U.K. lawmakers proposed to tighten shale-gas regulations, including a requirement to disclose the chemicals used and monitoring methane in groundwater, in amendments tabled by the main opposition Labour party. The party, leading the ruling coalition in opinion polls before an election scheduled for May, presented proposed changes to the Infrastructure …
Seventy-two apartments and 10 educational institutions have come under the scanner of the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) for discharging untreated wastewater. The pollution board will ask the apartments and institutions to set up sewage treatment plants (STP) on their premises. According to the board, the hostels of the …
A study by an NGO concluded that industrial pollution in the capital has increased due to flouting of norms by industrial units in Delhi. The study by Toxic Link, an environmental NGO, also gave details on how the groundwater has been contaminated by waste from these industries. As per the …
Industrial pollution, in varying forms ranging from lead acid battery recycling to landfill sites, has been affecting Delhi’s residents in adverse ways, as noted by a study of pollution hotspots by NGO Toxics Link. The most worrying aspect, the study notes, is the manner in which such pollutants seep into …
Environment activists and groundwater protectionists from Arulpuram area submitted a representation to Collector G. Govindaraj on Monday asking the administration to close down those individual dyeing units and Common Effluent Treatment Plants in Tirupur cluster which are found violating the pollution control norms. In the petition, the activists had highlighted …
Over the past year, the country’s justice system has significantly strengthened enforcement activity against ecological violations, the Environmental Protection Ministry informed The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Examining various events in which groups and individuals have been convicted for their activities, the ministry declared a “welcome, strict trend of the justice …
Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) has confiscated Rs 3 lakh bank guarantee furnished by Ramky Enviro Engineers who run TDSF facility in Pithampur for failing to install multi effect evaporator (which prevent local soil and ground water contamination). The same facility has been identified by government to carry of …
Concerned over effluents discharged into the Ganga and the Yamuna, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to conduct a joint inspection of "seriously polluting industries" on the bank of both the rivers. A bench, headed …
The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has faulted the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) for failing to carry out a proper investigation before issuing the required authorisation to the Dipped Products (PLC) owned gloves manufacturing factory at Rathupaswela to launch operations. The COPE released its findings at a special press conference …
Protesters have vowed to step up opposition to plans by AGL to frack for coal seam gas in the Gloucester region after the government gave the energy giant approval to conduct the work without a full environmental impact study. Campaigners gathered on Thursday at AGL's headquarters in Sydney, and at …
Further testing of the old Koppers timber treatment plant site has cleared it of posing any danger to the community, the government says. The multinational corporation treated timber using a combination of copper, chrome and arsenic at a 20 hectare block in Hume from the the early 1980s to 2005. …
Scientific understanding of the effects of hydraulic fracturing and other methods of extracting natural gas from shale rock has not kept pace with the rapid expansion of the industry in North America, leaving researchers with a limited grasp of what drilling could be doing to wildlife and plants, said a …
The state health department has carried out surveillance in six high-risk villages in the vicinity of Malin to check for groundwater contamination. The authorities are worried that the debris at the site may affect quality of water from borewells and wells, which are the primary drinking water sources for people …
Hydrogeochemical investigations were carried out in and around Tummalapalle uranium mining area in order to assess hydrogeochemistry and its evolution of hydrochemical facies. Forty groundwater samples were analyzed for various physicochemical parameters like pH, electrical conductivity (EC), Ca, Mg, Na, K, Cl, HCO3, CO3, SO4, and F. The saturation indexes …
Groundwater is an increasingly important resource for urban and rural potable water supply, irrigated agriculture, and industry, in addition to its natural environmental role of sustaining river flows and aquatic ecosystems. But major changes in land use that impact groundwater are taking place, as a consequence of population growth, increasing …
The National Green Tribunal Wednesday restrained Punjab from spending the first instalment of Rs 16.13 crores being disbursed by Union Urban Development Ministry for controlling contamination of under-ground water in the state till it examines the details as to how they want to spend the money. A bench headed by …
Germany's Environment Agency said it wanted to make fracking practically impossible to head off the risk that the technique for extracting gas could contaminate groundwater with chemicals. The agency's view, in a report on Wednesday, feeds into a fierce debate about fracking as Chancellor Angela Merkel's government draws up new …
The European commission has begun legal proceedings against Poland for amending its national laws to allow shale drills at depths of up to 5,000 metres without first having assessed the potential environmental impacts, EurActiv has learned. In June, Brussels sent Poland formal notice that it was opening a case against …
