Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
The International Conference on Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management “CRETE 2014” will be held in September 2nd – 5th, 2014 at Chania (Crete, Greece) for the fourth time.The Conference will once again focus on innovative aspects of Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management (including Organics, Non-Halogenated and Halogenated Solvents, Hydrocarbons, Pesticides, …
Disasters whether natural or technological, pose risks to public health. The key environmental health issues and challenges include food safety, water quality, wastewater disposal, shelter assessment/sanitation, vector control/pest management, responder safety, building assessment and management of municipal solid waste and hazardous waste materials. Good environmental health disaster management has a …
This report presents the details of proposed action plan for the abatement of pollution in the industrial clusters of Ludhiana. The action plan has been evolved based on the studies of present environmental conditions, key hotspots, industrial activities, condition of pollution control measures for treatment and disposal of solid waste, …
THE recent accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has left governments across the world worried over the safety of nuclear energy and its waste. As radioactive materials contaminated water, soil and air, technology to clean up the waste came to the forefront. Traditionally, naturally occurring substances such as …
A NAGPUR Bench of the Bombay High Court has stalled the transfer of toxic waste from Bhopal to Maharashtra amid protests by residents and activists. The decision comes a week after the Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered that 350 tonnes of the hazardous material lying at …
Leakage of radioactive elements SHILLONG: The current controversy about leakage of radioactive wastes from Delhi University which claimed one life and has affected many should make all other universities using radioactive matter for experiments to sit up and take notice. According to scientists in the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) …
On the night of March 7, a thick pall of smoke enveloped Kudikadu village near Cuddalore. It made people ill; over 120 persons had to be hospitalised after they complained of nausea, giddiness and eye irritation. The white smoke was bromine gas and its source: pharma company Shasun Pharmaceuticals, which …
People in the villages around Ratlam are paying a heavy price for living near the industrial town in Madhya Pradesh. Their groundwater has been polluted by over 23,500 tonnes of hazardous waste dumped at two factory premises and other sites in Ratlam. The quantity of toxic waste lying at the …
Sifting through Delhi’s municipal rubbish every day, Anwarul Shaikh and Rupa Begum often find broken CFL bulbs mixed in kitchen and other domestic waste. The compact fluorescent lamps have replaced incandescent bulbs in garbage mounds in the past couple of years, Rupa said, picking a few up. The glass tube …
The Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory at Bhopal, abandoned after the world’s worst industrial disaster that took place on December 3, 1984, is still heavily contaminated with a range of persistent pollutants. From this study it can be concluded that even after 25 years the residents of the area …
FIVE people working in a scrap metal shop in Delhi were hospitalised on April 7 following exposure to radioactive radiation. Nuclear experts rushed to the shop in Mayapuri junk market and found a radioactive material, cobalt-60, of the size of a pen cap. Nearby shops also indicated high radiation. It …
ELECTRICAL and electronic equipment produced in India will not contain toxic substances like cadmium, mercury and lead, according to a new legislation on managing growing e-waste. E-Waste (Management and Handling) Rules that specify EU norms for Indian electronics, will be effective from 2012. Reduction in the Use of Hazardous Substances …
The oily sludge that spilled along a one-km stretch of road in Vasco on Monday has been identified by Vasco police as phosphoric acid sludge, prompting residents to wonder how an open truck was allowed to transport phosphoric acid sludge in the port town. In a related development, the Mormugao …
A counsel for the victims of March 2006 dumping of highly toxic industrial waste said on Thursday that he would challenge the acquittal of a factory owner and others by a district court "as it was a pre-mature decision'. Advocate Faisal Siddiqui, who represented the victims in the case, told …
THE management of huge and growing quantities of electronic waste may emerge as one of the more important environmental problems of developing countries in the near future. It is a sight that is increasingly only too common in urban India, and now even in some more prosperous rural areas of …
Where do you go when the burning rubbish dump near you emits the smell of burning plastic and you know it is toxic? Close the windows perhaps and wait till the wind has blown it away or just get used to it? It is very easy to put household waste …
On not being satisfied with the present arrangement on disposal of bio-medical waste, the High Court has asked the government to file an affidavit on the matter. While hearing a suo motto petition on garbage, the Bombay High Court at Goa on Tuesday directed Secretary Health to file an affidavit …
Environment experts at a workshop in the city yesterday underlined the need for formulating a specific policy to manage industrial hazardous waste properly for ensuring sustainable and environment-friendly development. A specific waste management policy is needed as fast economic activities associated with industry, agriculture, health and other services generate chemical …
Washington: When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, an appeal of the nation's largest punitive damages award was inevitable. But almost no one could have predicted the …
Toxic water released from several yarn dyeing and processing mills in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj district is polluting the local environment, causing untold suffering to thousands of people and posing serious health hazard. Influential people set up the mills in an unplanned way without any treatment plant and drainage system, …
