House panel recommends MSP Metallics closure
Bhubhaneshwar, November 28: The House Committee on environment of state assembly has recommended shutting down of MSP Metallics factory at Jharsuguda on pollution grounds. Read More
Bhubhaneshwar, November 28: The House Committee on environment of state assembly has recommended shutting down of MSP Metallics factory at Jharsuguda on pollution grounds. Read More
KOLKATA, November 27: Eager to sort out problems plaguing the Calcutta Leather Complex at Bantala, the government has now formed a committee comprising officials from departments of industries and finance as well as the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB). Read More
Bangalore, November 27: That Bangalore is known as the Garden City is common knowledge. But, did you know that it was also once called the City of Lakes? However, this tag was lost over time as the water bodies started getting polluted. Perhaps the Lake Policy 2011 might help the city regain its former glory-and the tag, too. Read More
Vishakhapatnam, November 26: Environmentalists and intellectuals reject industrial expansion in the district. Victims of pollution backed by civil society organisations are up in arms against the Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) and its proposals for expansion of berths in the city. Read More
LUDHIANA, November 25: One more barrier that lay in the way of cleaning the infamous Buddha Nullah has been lifted with the municipal corporation (MC) authorities committing to maintain the drain after it's water is treated once. Read More
PATNA, November 25: The Union environment ministry is said to have deferred for the time being final clearance to the railways' ongoing Belapur Wheel Factoryproject near Chhapra in Saran district in Bi
Goa, November 25: In a letter sent to Goa’s Department of Mining and Geology, the Mines Ministry has brought to the State Government’s notice that in the last four years the actual aggregate production in 114 iron-ore mining leases there, “has exceeded by 15 per cent of the targeted run-of-mines (ROM) production in the approved Mining Plan (which excludes production from dumps reported by Goa Government)”. Read More
Bhubhaneshwar, November 24: Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has warned National Aluminum Company (Nalco) over the frequent leakage polluted water from the ash pond of the company’s captive power plant at Angul. Read More
Vishakhapatnam, November 23: Apprehensions and objections are being raised to the proposed relocation of an oil refinery from US to Vizag. Read More
KOCHI, November 22: The High Court yesterday ruled that stringent action would be taken against those who carelessly dispose the waste materials and garbage in public places. Read More
Mumbai, November 22: Under attack for delays in environment clearances and dilly-dallying over issues like the no-go area for mining, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has planned various changes. Read More
New Delhi, November 22: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notice to the Central Government, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and Delta Shipping Marine Services of Qatar for sinking of Panama flagged cargo ship MV Rak off the coast of Mumbai in August. Read More
KOZHIKODE, November 21:The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) will hand over the data collection process of Electronic Waste(E-Waste) to non-governmental organisations in the coming month as the board does not have enough manpower to handle the process. Read More
Ludhiana, November 21: Ludhiana MP and national spokesperson of the Congress, Manish Tewari, urged the union environment ministry to appoint Central Pollution Control Board as the executing agency for implementing the bio-remediation project for cleaning the Buddha Nullah as the state government has proved to be quite non-cooperative. Read More
Vishakhapatnam, November 20: Environmental experts expressed their concern over the proposed greenfield project in Srikakulam district. They allege that the regulatory system is licensing irreversible destruction of environment, defeating the very purpose for which it is put in place.
NEW DELHI, November 20: In 2010, the Delhi government had filed an affidavit, saying that it will shift a biomedical waste treatment facility from Sukhdev Vihar to an alternate site by mid-June that year. But no action was taken. Read More