Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2012, more than halfway toward the United States' 2020 target pledged at United Nations climate talks, according to the latest national emissions inventory. The report showed that emissions dropped 3.4 percent from 2012 to 2011, mostly due to a …
Wind was responsible for 4.8 percent of America’s electricity used in January. That’s the highest January total ever, breaking the record from last January, which broke the record for the January before that, and so on. The chart below shows the latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Association. America’s …
Clean Energy Council says uncertainty over the renewable energy target is hindering investment, letting other countries take the lead The clean energy industry has warned that Australia could fall further behind other nations after a report showed the country is ranked ninth in the world for investment in renewables. Research …
Climate change risks dramatically increase the more Earth warms, but reducing greenhouse gas emissions lowers the risk of the most unwelcome consequences, according to the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “We have assessed impacts as they are happening on the natural and human …
Exxon Mobil Corp, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, has agreed to disclose more information about the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing, the process known as fracking. In an agreement with New York City's pension funds, which control Exxon shares worth roughly $1.02 billion, the company agreed to report …
In what could spell fresh trouble for India’s hydrocarbon explorers, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the government to explain why it chose the “complex” Rangarajan formula for gas pricing when it could have adopted “simpler methods” like cost-plus pricing or revenue-sharing. A bench headed by Justice BS Chauhan asked …
Egypt's cabinet on Wednesday approved the use of coal for power generation after a fierce debate within the government over whether the highly pollutant fuel should be permitted for use by the energy-intensive cement industry. Struggling to avoid public unrest over blackouts, the government has cut natural gas supplies to …
Apple Inc, Google Inc and Facebook Inc have made significant progress in adopting renewable energy sources to power their Web services, the environmental group Greenpeace said in a report on Wednesday. But energy-hungry data centers operated by some of the Internet industry's top companies remain overly reliant on carbon-emitting coal …
Hyderabad: While the Krishna-Godavari offshore has already been identified as having shale gas potential, recent geological surveys have shown a larger tract of the Godavari-Pranahita basin to have significant shale gas potential. Scientists say that surveys in pockets of the basin has shown that it is a prospective shale gas …
The U.N.'s climate chief called on the oil and gas industry on Thursday to make a drastic shift to a clean, low-carbon future or risk having to leave three-quarters of fossil fuel reserves in the ground. "The time for experimentation, for marginal changes and for conditional response is now over," …
Challenges such as extreme weather, rising seas and worsening scarcity of drinking water are forcing many Asian governments to confront the changes being wrought by a warming planet even as some point to rich Western nations as major culprits. Millions of people in the region have already been displaced by …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Smt. Padmabati Mohapatra Vs. Union of India & Ors.dated 31/03/2014 regarding Tata Power Company Limited which has decided to change from coal based unit to gas based unit. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/29-2012(Ap)_31Mar2014.pdf
The Vice-President of India, Hamid Ansari, on Wednesday, released a book edited by Lt-Governor Najeeb Jung. The book titled ‘The Political Economy of Energy and Growth’ includes an analysis of India’s national energy policy and its long-term implications towards achieving energy security. Outlining the contents of the book, Jung said, …
If all goes well, a 36 Megawatt(MW) power plant using natural gas will be commissioned at Brahmapuram by Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) by September 2015. The feasibility study of the project has been completed and the tender process is likely to commence by May or June this year. We …
There has been no reverse in the trend of global warming and there is still consistent evidence for man-made climate change, the head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday. A slow-down in the average pace of warming at the planet's surface this century has been cited …
ONGC is turning focus on its deep water block KG-DWN-98/2 in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, as the state-run explorer reckons there could be more hydrocarbon reserves in about 11 discoveries in the block, than what has already been found. ONGC, sources said, has sought permission to drill more appraisal …
Natural gas is expected to be the fastest growing energy source until 2035 as global power consumption is likely to grow by an average 1.9% per year, according to a report. "Between 2012 and 2035, natural gas demand is expected to grow by an average 1.9% per year, outpacing all …
Ministry proposed a system of revenue sharing where the govt gets paid a part of the sales proceeds the moment production starts Vijay Kelkar, chairman of the expert panel on energy security, has stuck to his position that the existing regime for oil and gas contracts that governs oil and …
ONGC's giant gas field in Mozambique holds 45 to 70 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable reserves, 28% more than the minimum estimated resources when it invested $ 4.12 billion. ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), bought a 16 per cent stake …
The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday issued notices to Reliance Industries (RIL), the CBI, Andhra Pradesh government, the Centre and the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons on the issue of gas supplies from KG-D6 Basin. Based on a petition filed by Palem Srikanth Reddy, president of the Jana Palana Party, …
