8% FOREVER

Per capita emissions will remain competitively low  

Some sectors will struggle to be the best, some can’t as they operate in tropical India

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

Some sectors perform at the global best levels, others can reach there

Mined to death: an elegy for the rivers of Meghalaya

The rivers in the Jaintia Hills have turned deep blue; mines and cement factories have killed all fish and aquatic life in them

The other brick in the wall

Expressly defending white asbestos

The asbestos cement industry is back on the sly with its misinformation campaign. On July 15, 2003, The Indian Express and The Financial Express …

Jettison geography

A fresh map of coastal Gujarat may enable the completion of a jetty whose construction is under dispute

Sordid saga

The Sanghi jetty case takes a new turn as the Gujarat high court directs the Union government to re-examine the issue of environment clearance

Conform, or else

Political see-saw

News Snippets

Himachal cement plants face flak

The Himachal government's plans to install cement plants in the state create a none too happy situation

Saying yes to degradation

Meghalaya's lost treasure

Cement plants destroy India's largest cave system

Concrete problem

Concrete worries

Cement kilns are the third largest contributors of carbon dioxide

Under siege

Ash to concrete

Gains from use of flyash in cement manufacture

Pollution fears cloud future of cement plants

The announcement that more cement factories will be set up in the state has unleashed a controversy. Units already operational have not …

Tribals turn violent

Dusty deaths

Making cement production less polluting

Researchers are trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the manufacture of cement by finding alternatives to limestone

Creating panic

In short