Climate tech: Zimbabwean scientist turns carbon dioxide into methanol to minimise emissions

Making energy materials like formic acid, methanol from carbon dioxide released from factories can be important for emerging economies, says …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 8, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Uttar Pradesh takes a positive step towards effective industrial emissions monitoring

Uttar Pradesh Climate Change Authority, Directorate of Environment recommends CSE proposal on CEMS certification system

Dead communists help

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Tightening emission standards for ‘baby’ boilers: A much awaited step

A majority of boilers in industries in Delhi-NCR are baby boilers

DOWN AND OUT

A novel portrayal of pollution

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Madras HC stays expansion of Sterlite copper smelter; power supply cut

Protests against the expansion of the smelter have been going on for three months

Nord Stream spews high levels of methane, likely to affect marine life

Dissolved methane transforms back into a gaseous form when it reaches the surface 

Whose waste is it?

Producers are shifting their plastic recovery responsibility to other companies

Dealing with the past

Simply put: Pollution during elections

Anti-Sterlite protest in Tamil Nadu turns violent, at least 11 killed in police firing

At least 30 others were injured when police opened fire to quell the protest

Under siege

Villagers attack polluting sponge iron plant near Belgaum

Our little mushroom clouds

Online leash on polluting industries

60,000 units will file environmental statement on Internet  

Four killed in gas leak at Rourkela steel plant in Odisha

Plant chief executive suspends two deputy general managers for dereliction of duty

No respite for Pali yet, NGT reserves order on illegal textile industries

Some 17 textile industries operate in Pali district, violating the green court's order

Action falls short as far as industrial effluent pollution in India is concerned

There are lapses in implementation of laws and court judgements 

Uranium spill

State of India’s environment: Quality of air, water, land worsened in India’s industrial clusters

Tarapur in Maharashtra emerged the most polluted cluster between 2009 and 2018

Thermal power plants must assess health impact for green clearance

Environment ministry notification mandates bi-annual health check-ups for workers 

In court

Bhopal victims demonstrate in Delhi ahead of Supreme Court hearing on more compensation

Delhi police and CRPF dispersed the group of women survivors and forced them to leave

Brick kiln pollutes Pune outskirts

Closure order has no effect on brick-making unit