Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Market-based instruments (mbis), such as effluent taxes and subsidies for using environment friendly technologies, are increasingly being projected as efficient and cost-effective methods of environmental management all over the world. Economists have long argued for the greater use of such methods; over the last decade and a half, international conventions …
Most diesel vehicles in India do not meet the smoke density limit (65 on the Hartridge scale). But that's no cause for concern for owners. It's quite easy to carry home a pollution under control certificate (pucc) in India even if your vehicle does not conform to norms. We at …
october 1, 2004 was a watershed for India. On that day, countrywide, a new set of emission norms for in-use vehicles came into existence. Putting it mildly, they were well thought out. For it took the executive over a decade to change the in-use emission norms, since inception. The norms …
The objective of this article is to evaluate (via modeling) the impact of different pollution control scenarios on the shape of the income-emissions relationship. The simulation of emissions and emission controls was conducted using the Climate Change Risk Assessment Framework, which projects SO2 and NOxemissions from energy consumption and conversion …
us automobile manufacturers are facing rough weather following Canada's move to adopt stringent auto emission rules that have been adopted by California (see Down To Earth,
Mitsui & Co, Japan has admitted that it obtained an approval to sell its Diesel Particulate Filter ( dpf ) by using falsified tests results. dpf are after-treatment exhaust devices, that provide more than 90 per cent control of diesel particulate matter (pm). False data was included in the certification …
in its attempt to create order in the chaos that has followed the tsunami disaster, Sri Lanka is facing the complexities of reconstruction. One particularly problematic sphere is coastal regulation. While there is a renewed push from the government for regulating construction along the country's coasts, its efforts lack public …
This last fortnight, after two disparate experiences, I came to realise there is not much difference between colas and cars. Let me explain how. A year ago, we released a study on the cocktail of pesticides we found in all soft drinks brands. We argued the pesticides were in the …
• Pollution has killed several hundred fish in Tickenham Rhine river between Nailsea and Tickenham in Somerset in the UK, according to the country's Environment Agency. "The river is covered in white foam up to one metre high and hundreds of coarse fish, including roach, dace, and bream have been …
in july this year, Rajendra Singh Chauhan, chairperson, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (uppcb), announced that the order to shut down 27 hazardous waste-generating industrial units in Aligarh would be postponed . He added that he was seeking legal advice on whether closure should be implemented at all. Chauhan also …
Concrete Facts is the result of an exhaustive two year effort to rate the cement industry. It details the industry's ecological challenges and rates how well Indian companies address them. Companies are benchmarked against global best practices at each stage of the life cycle - from mining to use of …
"This is the first time such a job [the FGD unit] is being undertaken for coal fired station in India. Selection of proper technology, competent vendors, has to be based on detailed studies
chemists at the Indian Institute of Technology (iit), Chennai, have developed a nanoparticle-based technique to remove pesticides from drinking water. The feat is noteworthy, for exposure to pesticides can trigger genetic mutations and neurological disorders. The method was developed by A Sreekumaran Nair and T Pradeep from iit's Department of …
Can anaerobic sewage treatment systems tackle pollution in river Yamuna? Yes, believes the Parliamentary Standing Committee on science and technology, headed by Rajya Sabha member P G Narayanan. Observes its report tabled on August 18, 2004: "With this simple and cheap technology, it will be possible to treat
state governments across the country have missed the October 1, 2004, deadline to implement the new in-use emission norms for vehicles, better known as the pollution under control (puc) certificate programme. The Delhi government has extended the deadline by one month and the West Bengal government by one-and-a-half months. The …
bangalore's lakes were spared the annual deluge of toxic Ganesh idols during this year's Ganesh Utsav, the Hindu festival. Instead of immersing the idols in the lakes, people immersed them in mobile tanks, provided by the Karnataka state pollution control board (kspcb), civic agencies and the Lake Development Authority. Some …
A disaster management committee constituted recently to deal with pollution and other problems of villagers along the effluent channel project (ECP) in Vadodara is in the eye of a storm. The reason: its composition. The seven-member committee does not include any local representative but has a strong representation of the …
mad cow victim: Florida-based Charlene Singh, 25, suffering the only known instance of the human form of mad cow disease in the US, died recently. She was ill since 2001. She suffered from the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a brain-wasting illness caused by eating processed food made from cattle with bovine …
syl row rages: The Supreme Court (SC) has come down heavily on the Punjab government for its failure to construct the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) Canal in accordance with the court's January 15, 2002, order. An SC bench, comprising Justice Ruma Pal and Justice P V Reddi, observed that the state's …
