Guidelines for new pollution monitoring system out

After a three-year-delay, the pollution control board has published guidelines for continuous emission monitoring system, giving some hope to get …

SC bans dirty pet-coke, furnace oil in Haryana, Rajasthan, UP; CSE lauds verdict

The order comes in response to the recommendations of the EPCA that has found very high sulphur levels in these fuels

Supreme Court asks NGT to monitor industrial units polluting Ganga

Apex court had recently asked government to explain why Central Pollution Control Board has no chairperson for the past six months

Green tribunal orders closure of polluting industries along river Ulhas

People living near Dombivali industrial cluster suffer from gastro-intestinal and respiratory diseases but no action was being taken, say activists

Green tribunal orders closure of 18 polluting industries in Noida

Order follows site inspections by a joint committee appointed by tribunal

West Bengal discharges over 50% waste water untreated into Ganga

Report of CPCB calls for making sewage treatment plants functional, tackling waste discharged through drains to reduce pollution load on river

Maharashtra’s common effluent treatment plants fail to meet standards

Latest weekly report of state pollution control board says only seven CETPs meet standards for treated effluent water

Changing basic nature

Countries move from labs to seas to study the implications of ocean acidification

Farmers affected by Karur’s dye industry to exercise NOTA

Group has 1,750 farmers says pollution from industries has reduced them to poverty and political parties in power ignored their repeated pleas

Gutter will sparkle

Ludhiana is going all out to clean up Buddha Nallah, the sole receptacle of its industrial filth

MoEF expert panel recommends moratorium on mining, power projects in Konkan

Report kept in wraps calls attention to adverse environmental and social impacts of ongoing industrial activities

Caution over cleanup of Nura river

Where river runs black

Industries from far and near dump untreated toxic effluents near Ulhasnagar, choking a river and sickening people

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