Plea for 60 days more to respond to translated draft EIA 2020; Delhi High Court seeks Centre's standA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued notice to the Environment Ministry on the application which seeks modif...
Revise mechanism for setting up, expansion of industries in polluted areas, NGT directs CPCBA bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel also warned that it will "coercive action" against the heads of SPCBs for faili...
Decide on banning import of pet coke by June 30: Supreme Court to GovernmentThe bench also issued notices to Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan after Nadkarni said that steps needed to be taken in these states to ...
Zero case under air pollution in Delhi reflects gap in green law enforcementDelhi had seen one of the worst years in terms of air pollution last year but the city did not file a single case against anyone for violat...
Stay on appointment of MPCB chief: Supreme Court to hear plea on June 19A vacation bench comprising justices RK Agrawal and Deepak Gupta posted Maharashtra's plea for hearing on Monday after advocate Nishant Ram...
CPCB received 241 complaints against industries in 3 yrs: GovernmentCPCB has forwarded the complaints to the respective State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs)/Pollution Control Committees (PCCs) and zonal of...
E-waste: NGT seeks info on generation, recycling and disposalE-waste is discarded electronic devices which includes discarded computers, office electronic equipment, mobile phones, TV sets, etc.
- Government suggests norms for units dealing with hazardous chemicals
Industrial units dealing with hazardous chemicals should subscribe to a special insurance policy to cover liabilities likely to arise on ac...
Centre reconstitutes pollution control board working groupTo smoothen clearance of projects held at state pollution control boards, Centre has reconstituted working group to simplify procedures to ...
Government’s proposed air quality index comes under a heavy cloudSome of this data enters public domain — in the form of actual readings, or 15-minute/hourly/daily averages of pollutant concentrations.
CPCB is working to develop its standard and monitoring methodology, says AB Akolkar, member-secretary, CPCB'To begin with, CPCB proposes to establish a linkage between local government and air quality data for the use of AQI.'
Why India’s numbers on air quality can’t be trustedThe air you breathe is probably worse than what is reported. The government does not certify the machines that measure it.
48 industrial units polluting Ganga asked to close downDirections have been issued to about 48 industrial units polluting River Ganga to close down, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.
48 industrial units polluting Ganga asked to close downDirections have been issued to about 48 industrial units polluting River Ganga to close down, the Rajya Sabha was informed today by the MoE...
- 48 industrial units polluting Ganga asked to close down
Directions have been issued to about 48 industrial units polluting Ganga to close down, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.
- MAIT wants single authorisation for e-waste disposal
Cos are finding disposal of e-Waste cumbersome because of the multiple authorisations that are required from different State Pollution Cont...
- Cabinet note on manufacturing policy may be moved
The industry ministry is likely to seek nod for its manufacturing policy, having secured the consent of the environment and labour ministri...