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Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
More cities critically polluted
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2009
on november 18, the Union environment ministry revised the ambient air quality standards for the country after a gap of 15 years. The new standards are more stringent. They also mandate that air quality in industrial areas should be at par with residential areas.
Home truths
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
Modern houses are suffused with harmful chemicals. One of them is lead, present in paints. It is banned in several countries but not in India. The Centre for Science and Environment tested popular paints in India for lead content. It found 72 per cent of the samples had lead much higher than the voluntary limit specified by the Bureau of Indian Standards. Only the Dulux brand of ICI was lead-free; Asian Paints cleaned up later.
What's happening inside disposal units?
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2009
Enforcement and monitoring are the key to safety
Having tsfds and guidelines in place does not mean the waste has been taken care of. As the beil accident showed, cpcb's guidelines that existed before the new ones, like mandatory labelling of drums, were not enforced.
"We can't provide leadership"
H C Sharat Chandra, chairman of the Karnataka Pollution Control Board, talked of its failures and role in managing waste On waste reduction: India is yet to move towards it. Industries have to understand it is their problem. Initial investment can be taken care of with soft loans but they should at least show interest. The problem is small recyclers and manufacturers are not even aware of these technologies, forget using them.Change is in the process
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2009
One way of managing waste do not produce it
Lower the din
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2009
Aircraft noise a pain for residents around airport
sahil yaduvanshi, 4, loves airplanes. He does not have to go far to look at one. He just has to peer out of his playschool window and look up every few minutes to see one.
Chella Krishnamurthy, 57, murdered
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2009
Karnataka farmer paid the price for resisting a polluting distillery, sand mining
Coliform will count
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2009
Environment ministry admits bacteria is major river pollutant
MAJOR rivers in India have high bacterial contamination, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) said in a press release dated December 24, 2008. Yamuna and Ganga top the list of most polluted rivers (see graph below).
January 31, 2009
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2009
Deadline for disposing UCIL waste
THE Madhya Pradesh High Court on December 16 issued fresh directions to dispose the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The waste is to be incinerated at the waste treatment site in Ankleshwar industrial area of Gujarat. The court directed the Gujarat government to dispose the hazardous waste by January 31, 2009.
Air to lung to DNA
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2008
Air pollutants damage genes, affect human behaviour
THE air you breathe in may affect your health in more ways than you think. Besides causing respiratory disorders and hypertension, pollution may
be damaging genes and changing human behaviour, revealed a study on health of urban population in Delhi and rural population West Bengal
and Uttarakhand.
