We can overcome

It was the most polluted city in the US, and now, it is the recipient of the UN Best Practices Award. Chattanoogans have spearheaded this …

A red politician who saw opportunity in green

A chief minister who gave autonomy to environment regulators

Rivers are flowing off-course

Officials need to pull up their socks on conservation measures

Where reducing waste improved quality

A simple waste minimisation technique at an electroplating plant in Delhi improved the quality of its plating and saved the unit Rs 60,000 annually.

Clean up or close down

Threatened with closure on grounds of pollution, Palam Potteries adopted a waste minimisation method that brought down its smoke emissions and …

Reclaiming clean air

An emissions trading programme, introduced in the US to provide incentives to companies for emission control, could be an effective instrument in …

Just bend it

Pollution under control tests for diesel vehicles are a big farce

Rigged in India

Pollution control is bypassed with typical ingenuity

Cooling Earth

Municipalities in the Netherlands are exerting pressure on the national government to reduce carbon dioxide emission by half by AD 2010

Clean manufacturing, cleaner environment

Waste abatement measures can go a long way in controlling pollution and increasing efficiency, prove several surveys. Access to right technology …

Same problem, differing approaches

The government is roping in NGOs in the fight against pollution whereas industry is trying cleaner manufacturing processes

Polluters must pay

Does emissions trading adhere to this principle?

Rubber-stamp Authority

State environment regulatory bodies formed under the 2006 Environmental Impact Assessment notification have floundered. They have little …

Chella Krishnamurthy, 57, murdered

Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala

Exhausting concerns

The automobile industry is worried about a proposed legislation that may soon make it mandatory for manufacturers to fit vehicles with catalytic …

Friends of the river

Clearing the Ganga, is their mission even if it means fishing out scores of bodies from the river

Fiscal fitness

While commercial vehicle operators appeal to the Supreme Court to review its order on the phase-out of 15-year old vehicles, the Delhi government …

True growth is about overcoming hard challenges

IN THE developed world, conducting business today is also about being environmentally accountable. Governments have imposed stringent regulatory …

CREP: a review

Has industry become environmentally responsible?

Rules of e-dump

Loopholes in new rules for electronic waste make it difficult to regulate informal sector

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

Green taxes won't leave taxpayer in the red

Environmental protection will work only if it makes economic sense. And, one good way of making sure it does is by introducing a …

No entry to Dutch plant

Pakistan's environmentalists say no to dumping of obsolete and hazardous technology by the West

Fly for the right price

Strohalm, an environmental group, launches a campaign to tax corporate flyers in the Netherlands