State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)

Panaji: Goa’s picture-postcard credentials have taken a severe beating, with tar balls washing up on some of its popular beaches from Monday. Operations to clean up beaches were on all of Wednesday even as more of the oily residue washed ashore. Tar balls were first seen on beaches in south Goa on Monday afternoon.

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KOLKATA, 1 SEPT: At a time when the state pollution control board has taken up a drive to phase out lead, a toxic-metal, innumerable lead-battery units in the city not only continue to cough out lead aerosols dust, but also ignore the safety of labourers working in these units. There are about 100 small or medium lead battery units operating on the stretch of APC Road from Manicktala Crossing t

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BHUBANESWAR: One of India’s severely-polluted areas, Angul-Talcher region is grappling with the problem of land being converted into ash ponds and solid waste disposal facilities. The process has led agriculture land turning into unproductive barren land, a problem which Orissa Pollution Control Board (OPCB) identifies as an emerging issue and has suggested abatement measures in its new action

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Councillor Chander Mukhi Sharma has moved a complaint against the garbage processing plant at Dadumajra to UT Adviser Pradip Mehra.

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Debabrata Mohanty

The Orissa government has appointed a committee to look into cases of excessive mining of iron, chromite, and manganese ore by companies in disregard of existing laws. Headed by the Director of Mines, the six-member committee would submit a report on the companies who dug out the ores in excess of the prescribed limit.

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MUMBAI: Mobile service providers will have to submit an annual report of the electro magnetic radiations (EMR) level generated from mobile towers near schools and hospital zones.

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THE environment ministry is likely to take a decision on the fate of Vedanta’s mining project in Orissa in a week. The NC Saxena panel, appointed by the ministry, had on Monday recommended that the company not be allowed to mine in the Niyamgiri hills. The Forest Advisory Committee will be meeting on August 20 to consider recommendations of the expert panel.

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On the directions issued by the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC), two service stations operating from Industrial Area, Phase II, were sealed today for causing water pollution, being operational without a valid license to operate and not complying with various other provisions.

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