Tokyo: Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said on Sunday.

The volume of the latest leakage was believed to be small, it said. On Saturday, it said as much as 120 tonnes of radioactive water may have leaked from another nearby storage tank.

As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Satur

New Delhi: The national green tribunal has set up a committee, headed by the secretary of the environment department, to look into the issues of the Mayapuri scrap market where a radioactive leak i

More than 15 years after rules for management and handling of bio-medical waste were notified, the provisions are yet to be fully implemented.

PANJIM: United Breweries and United Spirits – flagship companies of liquor baron Vijay Mallya, are under the scanner with the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) issuing show cause notices to them for allegedly discharging effluent into the Curti Ponda nullah.

The board also found that samples from the from the effluent and sewage treatment plants are not “meeting prescribed limits,” Minister for Environment and Forests Alina Saldanha told the legislative assembly on Wednesday.

Nearly 200 million litres of domestic and industrial waste is discharged by Haryana into the Yamuna every day, a

The Goa State Pollution Control Board has issued show cause notices to liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s M/s United Breweries and M/s United Spirits for allegedly releasing untreated effluent or sewage i

Odisha government said on Tuesday that it has engaged five private agencies for disposal of e-waste and created awareness on the danger of such pollution.

The district environmental engineer, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Kancheepuram, has submitted to the member secretary of the Board that a plastic unit be directed to shut down.

“It is submitted and recommended that direction may be issued to the unit under Section 33 (A) of Water (P and CP) Act, 1974 and Section 31 (A) of the Air (P and CP), Act, 1981 for closure of the unit and disconnection of power supply,” said the note from the district environmental engineer.

India's top court imposed a fine of Rs 100 crore ($18.40 million) on Sterlite Industries for polluting environment through its copper smelting plant in Tamil Nadu The case is unrelated to a separate order that has shut the Tuticorin plant, India's largest, since last week following complaints of a gas leak.

Despite the fine, the Supreme Court overruled an earlier order from the Madras High Court to shut down the plant over long-standing environmental concerns, the bench headed by Judge A.K. Patnaik said.