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Hills of greyville

Fast-expanding steel industry yet to find an effective way to reuse its waste product, slag

The road to Tarkera village in Rourkela offers an unusual sight: grey hillocks amid lush green hills. The strange addition to the landscape is slag, a waste product of the steel industry, which has piled up over decades.

Green Rating Programme, Industrial Waste, Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Rourkela, Steel Authority of India (SAIL), Steel Slag, Waste Management, Story
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CSE's Green Rating Project findings discussed in the Parliament of India

Based on the findings of the environmental, health, safety, local community relations and sustainability issues of major Indian steel plants as studied by CSE's Green Rating Project, Members of Parliament in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha raised questions on the poor performance of sector to the Union Ministers of Environment and Steel respectively.

Date: 10 December 2012

Read full document: Parliament discusses CSE's Steel sector Green Rating Project  

Environment, Green Rating Programme, Health, Steel Plants, Story
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The other side of SAIL's profits

Date: 5 November 2012

State-owned steel giant’s profits are found increasingly because of raw material (iron ore) subsidies and not due to real economic value addition. This only leads to wastage and poor operational management during steel making, thereby causing higher pollution

Read full document: The other side of SAIL's profits.pdf

Green Rating Programme, Green Rating Programme, Iron, Story
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CLSA bank covers Green Rating Project

CLSA U Research - Long way to green

Date: 30 October 2012

Faced with limited resources and competition, few Indian mining/metals companies have improved their green footprint. Regular violations of environmental laws and poor safety track records suggest that steelmakers have a long way to go to achieve best-in-class benchmarks.

Stiff regulations, strict enforcement, resource constraints and competitive threats should drive better behaviour. CSE's GRP team explains how increased investor scrutiny can help the green production cause

Read the full document: Long way to green

Green Rating Programme, Green Rating Programme, Story
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Book review of 'Into the Furnace', the Green Rating of Indian iron and steel sector

Published at: Business Standard newspaper, India
Reviewer: Ms. Shailaja Sharma

Book Review, Green Rating Programme, Story
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Prime Minister's trophy for steel plant overrides pollution concerns

CSE study had shown companies which bagged the award for best integrated steel plants have poor environmental performance and productivity record

Bhilai Steel Plant, Central Pollution Control Board, Centre for Science and Environment, Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB), Green Rating Programme, Green Rating Project, Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board, Prime Minister's trophy, Pronab Sen, Tata Steel Jamshedpur plant, Union Ministry of Steel, Story
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Steel plants in eastern India blatantly flouting environmental norms, finds CSE green rating survey

From left to right: Mr. Sandipan Mukherjee, Member Sec. WBPCB, Ms. Sunita Narain, DG CSE, Dr. Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar, Environment Minister, West Bengal, Mr. Chandra Bhushan, DDG, CSE, and Mr. S K Roy, Chief Blast Furnace, Tata Steel Jamshedpur

West Bengal-based steelmakers rank as some of the worst of the lot

Green Rating Programme, Iron & Steel Industry, Raiting, Steelmakers, Story
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Commentary: Organisational behaviour and management causes for Indian steel players’ poor green performance – with specific reference to PSUs


Author: Umashankar S., CSE
Date: 17 August 2012

Green Rating Programme, Iron And Steel Industry, Story
Green Rating of Indian Iron and Steel Sector

India is world's fourth largest steel producer. The demand for iron and steel in the country is growing exponentially owing to rapid industrialization and infrastructural demand.  But steel sector is also highly polluting and is categorized as one of the most polluting sector among 17 sectors identified by Central Pollution Control Board.

Green Rating Programme, Iron and Steel Sector, Story
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GRP Brochure

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A clean environment makes perfect business sense

The Green Rating Project (GRP) assesses, and makes public, the environmental performance of companies within a sector in India. It aims to reduce the impact of industrial activity on the environment.

Green Rating Programme, Green Rating Project (GRP), Sector Ratings
Sectors rated under GRP
Iron and Steel Sector
Automobile Sector
Cement Sector
Chlor-Alkali Sector
Pulp & Paper Sector
Green Rating Programme, Green Rating Project, Sector Ratings
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Green Leaves Award

The award is given by CSE in recognition of the rating achieved by industries on the basis of their environmental performance in various sectors covered under Green Rating Project. 

 Green Rating Programme, Green Rating Project (GRP), Sector Ratings

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BEST AVAILABLE TECHNIQUES for Indian Iron and Steel Sector

This document briefly lists the best available techniques (BAT) for design, technology and operational performance of the Indian Iron and Steel sector. For each technique under different iron and steel manufacturing processes, the Indian best practice and the global best practice has been presented. The Indian best practice figures represent the values observed from the Centre for Science and Environment’s Green Rating Project (GRP) study of the sector in India for the year 2009-10.

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Into The Furnace

This latest book is on the environment status of the Indian Steel Sector.

Based on CSE's recent environmental rating done of major iron and steel plants of India, we have rated 21 top Indian steel companies in this book, from the Private as well as the Public Sector.

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Mileage: Environmental Rating of Indian Automobile Sector

In-depth Life Cycle Analysis of the environmental performance of major players in the Indian automobile sector. Also analyses technological issues, comparative analysis of best practices with global players and recommends future outlook.

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Work Overview

The Green Rating Project (GRP) is an effort to rate industrial units within a specific sector on the basis of their environment friendliness. The project aims at encouraging companies to adopt better environment management policies. Environment risk liability is an issue that is gaining increasing attention in Indian company’s boardroom.

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Green buildings, city’s new fad

Karnataka, With 41 Eco-Conscious Constructions, Is No. 4 In The Country

Karnataka is home to 41 green buildings, the fourth largest figure for any state in the country. Of them, 39 are in Bangalore. Green buildings are fast catching the imagination of the people. Though the penetration level is just around 5%, the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) is happy the residential sector is coming up with such buildings. Going by industry prediction, the residential sector — both independent houses and residential apartments — are set to outnumber commercial buildings by 2030 in India.

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Companies fined heavily for mining over limit in Odisha

 State authorities send notices to 103 mines
Odisha's department of steel and mines has slapped a fine of Rs 67,900 crore on companies operating 103 mines in the Koira and Joda mining circles of Sundargarh and Keonjhar districts, respectively for mining more mineral than permitted.
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State mining departments turn tech-savvy to track mineral ores

 Odisha takes lead, sets up robust system to monitor minerals produced and transported
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Supreme Court lifts ban on 63 more mines in Bellary

 Sets condition of compensatory payment to resume operations
The Supreme Court allowed operations in 63 out of 72 category B mines in Bellary, Chitradurga and Tumkur in Karnataka, subject to conditions.
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Irongate opened

 
Shah Commission report shows how authorities, mine owners stripped Goa of iron
 
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