Paddy fields burning: Smog shrouds national capital
<p>Come winter, and the air quality in northern India begins to deteriorate.The smoke resulting from burning crop residues combined with vehicular emissions make the air we breathe deadly.</p>
<p>Come winter, and the air quality in northern India begins to deteriorate.The smoke resulting from burning crop residues combined with vehicular emissions make the air we breathe deadly.</p>
This is the compliance statement for the order passed by the Hon'ble Tribunal dated 05-02-2014 the details of Grossly Polluting Industries (GPI) operating in 5 Ganga states. There are 764 grossly polluting
Being chronically deficient in power, the Government of India launched an ambitious plan to establish a series of power plants to enhance generation capacity, under the Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP)
<p>The Union environment ministry has informed the National Green Tribunal that a final decision on implementation of Kasturirangan Panel report on the Western Ghats would be taken in a month and clarified that the order issued by Jayanthi Natarajan on 13 Nov 2013 for ban on new projects in the 6,000-sq km zone continues to be in force. Click here for the report, MoEF orders...</p>
<p>Supreme Court has asked the environment ministry to set up national environment regulator with office in every state to “appraise and monitor” the process for granting green clearances and how the regulations are complied with. Read text of this order dated 6 Jan 2014.</p>
<p>Rajasthan Mineral Policy 2015 released by the chief minister Vasundhara Raje raises the mineral exploitation area in the state to 1.5% from the existing 0.54%. Increasing the number of minerals under mining from 57 to 79 it calls upon the industry to adopt modern environmentally acceptable technology for exploring the mineral riches.</p>
<p>The CDP Global Water Report 2013 establishes that a misguided approach to water-related risk management has become business as usual at the world’s largest global companies. Corporate focus is
This is the order issued by West Bengal State Pollution Control Board on controlling noise pollution due to fire crackers. It says that the maximum permissible noise level of the firecrackers at the time of bursting within the State of West Bengal must not exceed 90 dB(A) impulse noise at five meters from the source.
Private transport operators have filed cases against Nugas Technologies (NGT) in the Monopolistic and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) for charging 'exorbitant" rates due to their
With a little over two months to go for the next CNG deadline of September 30 to end, there is some encouraging news. Delhi-based conversion company Nugas Technologies (NGT) claims to have obtained
Delhi government has filed a complaint against Nugas Technologies (NGT) with the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) for charging different rates from private owners for
Nugas Technologies (NGT)--the only "authorised" CNG conversion company seems to have ensured that it keeps getting free publicity, albeit for the wrong reasons. In a complaint filed today, the
Rare Fuels & Automobile Technology (RFAT), a Delhi-based CNG conversion company, has filed a complaint against Nugas Technologies (NGT), the only authorised company in the Capital, for trying to sell
Five months after 4,000-odd transporters filed affidavits in the Supreme Court promising to convert their diesel buses into Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) mode from Nugas technologies (NGT) - then the
Noida: Adopting a stern outlook on wastage of groundwater by packaged water companies, the National Green Tribunal has sought details of all such factories operating in the Noida-Greater Noida region. Aclarification has been sought asto whether such industries have the consent of the authorities of the twin cities and the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board to operate. The tribunal has also sought details about the ‘sources’ from which these factories collect water. The tribunal has directed the Central Ground Water Authority and the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board to furnish guidelines regarding conservation of groundwater and provide data pertaining to groundwater levels from 2006.
<p>Cities are choking because of their own construction and demolition (C&D) waste with serious environmental consequences warned the sustainable building experts at the conference organised by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) & Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA). </p>
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The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
<p>When the hearing on dispensation of environmental clearance for POSCO project is going on in National Green Tribunal and stay order for cutting trees continues, the announcement of starting construction
<p>This Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) came into effect from Oct 17, 2017 to prevent a repeat of the severe air pollution Delhi witnessed after Diwali last year. Measures under the GRAP's 'very poor' and 'severe' categories will remain in force till March 15, 2018 said Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) appointed by the Supreme Court.</p>