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 …
World Bank Consultant Sandra Cointreau feels governments need to educate citizens about the importance of municipal solid waste management projects and prepare them to pay for their maintenance. Unless people start paying for the multi-crore projects being taken up to improve environment, the solid waste management projects cannot be sustained, …
Total coliform count exceeds permissible limits: PCB Investigations by the State Pollution Control Board (PCB) have revealed heavy pollution of wells at select locations in Ernakulam district. The monitoring agency found that the total coliform (bacteria) count exceeded the permissible limits at various sites. The wells identified for the water …
A number of edible oil refineries have been established in the vicinity of Kakinada port during the past decade, generating employment in the port town and stimulating economic growth, but there are complaints from the public that the managements of the private refineries are not taking steps to mitigate or …
Arsenic is the focus of public attention because of its wider prevalence and toxicity. Proper sampling is important in characterizing toxic water contaminants in the groundwater. The present paper studies aspects of sampling, preservation artifacts, analytical issues etc. in a natural arsenic contaminated groundwater. The samples were collected from arsenic …
Contamination of deep groundwater with arsenic from shallower sources may not be as serious as feared — if pumping deep water is limited to domestic use, a study has found. Exposure to arsenic-contaminated groundwater has been linked to almost one in every five deaths in Bangladesh, and some 100,000 deep …
About 90 per cent of people in Dodo Panhwar village in the vicinity of evaporation ponds of the BHP-Zamzama gas plant, 15 kilometres from here, suffer from skin, eye and abdominal diseases apparently because of toxic fumes spreading in the air from the ponds. Hafiz Abu Bakar Panhwar, who lives …
The Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Centre to identify a laboratory in the country to analyse the waste from Union Carbide and prepare an environmental impact assessment on the impact of burning it in Nagpur. The September 22 order came after the Maharashtra Pollution …
S. Faizi, Environment Expert Member of the Plachimada High Power Committee, has questioned the arguments of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Ltd relating to the Plachimada Coca-Cola Victims' Relief and Compensation Claims Special Tribunal Bill 2011 forwarded by the Union Home Ministry to the State. In a letter sent to the Prime …
With the three landfill sites in the city full to the brim and every resident continuing to account for at least half-a-kilogram of municipal waste everyday, Delhi is staring at a sanitation crisis. The Delhi government has informed the Delhi High Court that it has identified, in consultation with the …
A lawsuit challenging a small town's ban on natural-gas drilling could have implications throughout New York, where state officials are poised to approve a controversial drilling method known as fracking. Anschutz Exploration Corporation filed suit on Friday against Dryden, a rural suburb of Ithaca with about 13,000 residents that last …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to ensure drilling companies are not misleading investors about their natural gas reserves but is not cracking down on a practice of hydraulic fracturing, its chairman said on Thursday. The SEC issued subpoenas to ExCo Resources Inc and Quicksilver Resources Inc last month …
Relying more on natural gas than on coal would not significantly slow down the effects of climate change, even though direct carbon dioxide emissions would be less, a new study has found. Burning coal emits far more climate-warming carbon dioxide than natural gas does, but it also releases lots of …
New York's environmental body on Wednesday extended a public comment period on proposed rules for natural gas drilling in the state, frustrating companies eager to exploit its rich natural gas deposits. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation extended the comment period for its draft environmental impact statement on drilling …
Natural gas drilling using a controversial technique known as hydraulic fracturing could create up to 37,000 jobs and generate from $31 million to $185 million a year in added state income taxes for New York at the peak level of well development, according to analyses in a report commissioned by …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has told the Madhya Pradesh High Court in an affidavit that the DRDO facility at Nagpur has neither the requisite infrastructure nor the storage facilities for handling toxic waste from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. What's more, the incinerator at the facility has …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved verdict on Sterlite Industries' interim application seeking a stay on the operation of the Madras High Court judgment ordering closure of its copper plant at Tuticorin and discharge of its workers on payment of compensation. A Bench of Justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik …
The U.S. Geological Survey has just issued a new report on the amount of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation, and the findings add to the growing uncertainty over just how profitable new gas wells in the region will be over the long run. Drilling in the Marcellus, a …
The city’s ground water is not fit for consumption unless it is treated for both biological and chemical contamination. A ground water quality study conducted by the Central Ground Water Board in several parts of Hyderabad revealed that water tapped from the ground failed in a number of crucial parameters …
The government with help of the World Bank is preparing a project to improve the sustainability of water and sanitation services in rural areas. The proposed project, 'Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project' (BRWSSP), aims to increase sustainable access to safe water supply and sanitation in rural areas, said …
Ten U.S. environmental groups came out in support of hundreds of protesters arrested at the White House since Saturday for opposing a proposed $7 billion pipeline that would greatly expand imports of crude extracted from Canadian oil sands. The pipeline and processing of the oil, they claim, can potentially spill …
