Why Alang?
Good tides and weak enforcement favour the shipbreaking industry
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Astutely tampered
In November 2001, the Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority EPCA was directed by the Supreme Court to constitute an agency to independently carry out random inspection at petrol pumps, oil depots and tank lorries in Delhi. The agenc
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Making CETPs work
If cetps are the answer, how do we make them work? The choice of technology, however important, is not the only challenge ahead. The key is to build a much stronger framework for common waste
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CASE FILE: Peeragarhi
The way to shut a polluting industry and how it usually does not happen
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Planting risk
Belgaum sponge iron plant disregards closure notices
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FOLLOW UP
The controversy over the use of polluting coal by industries in the Taj Trapezium Zone in Agra has assumed political overtones. Local politicians are siding with the industrialists to stall the
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In short
up environment policy: Voicing concerns over rising pollution levels, the Uttar Pradesh Government is formulating a new environment policy, as per Supreme Court recommendations. This is to be
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The green goblins
Only those industrial processes, which are almost non polluting should be reserved for the small scale sector
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The Bhopal disaster and its aftermath: a review
On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more. The company involved in what became the worst industrial accident in history immediately tried to dissociate itself from legal responsibility.
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SNIPPETS
• China refuted a recent US National Academy of Sciences report, which notes that a new strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has emerged in southern China. • Argentine President Nestor
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As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises
Forgotten but not gone, the waste from more than 100 nuclear reactors that the federal government was supposed to start accepting for burial 10 years ago is still at the reactor sites, at least 20 years behind schedule. But it is making itself felt in the federal budget. With court orders and settlements, the federal government has already paid the utilities $342 million, but is virtually certain to pay a total of at least $7 billion in the next few years and probably over $11 billion, government officials said. The industry said the total could reach $35 billion. The payments come from an obscure and poorly understood government account that requires no new Congressional appropriations, and will balloon in size, experts said. The payments are due because the reactor owners were all required to sign contracts with the Energy Department in the early 1980s, with the government promising to dispose of the waste for a fee of a 10th of a cent per kilowatt-hour. It was supposed to begin taking away the fuel in the then far-off year of 1998. Since then, the utilities have filed 60 lawsuits. The main argument
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The great public sector charade
The Indian Oil Corporation, a public sector company, was reluctant to provide clean diesel to Delhi when asked by the Supreme Court. But after a private sector industrial group, Reliance, offered to supply it, the company rushed to do the same. The pu
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'Outdated and foolish'
BUILDERS in Delhi are in a bind. The Supreme Court order to close down stone-crushing units around the Capital has hiked structural costs by 10-15 per cent. The Aravalli notification has drastically
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Guilty Bush
A recent study has exposed the Bush administration's flagrant disregard for environmental laws. The research reveals that the present us government has systematically tried to undermine the
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Impact of Supreme Court order on Particulate pollution
The cse study shows that the cng strategy will help to get closest to the clean air target compared to slow changes in diesel technology. • When buses, autos and taxis move to cng by 2001,
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Strange but true
Existing clean up technology or treatment plants have failed to check pollution by our errant industries, especially the chlorine based units
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Patancheru: water woes
While the apex court has brought to Patancheru's effluent riddled land some relief in the forms of compensation and drinking water, it has not yet remarked on the government agencies' non functioning complacence
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PROXY ATTACK FROM FAR LEFT
Naxalites move into a mining belt; NGOs move out
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In short
>> The department of justice in Wisconsin, USA, has sued US Oil Company Inc on July 10 for violating state air pollution laws. They alleged its fuel storage terminals in Milwaukee, Brown and Dane
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Srinagar officials, residents agree on three more dumpsites
on april 13, 2007, residents of Achen, a locality in Srinagar, and the municipal authorities agreed that three new dumpsites should be set up in three zones of the city, to supplement the