After 32 years, government now plans to dispose 332 tonnes of toxic UCC waste via tenderThe move comes over a year after the pilot incineration of 10 tonnes of Union Carbide waste was conducted in Dhar district of MP.
NGT wants undertaking on completion of waste processing plantNational Green Tribunal has directed that a waste processing plant on Bawana-Narela road here be completed and operationalised within two y...
Delhi budget: Government plans subsidies, saplings for cleaner cityAround 12 lakh saplings will be planted in Delhi in current financial year by all concerned agencies in order to improve the air quality, D...
NGT asks DPCC, DSIIDC to submit plan on hazardous waste plantThe Tribunal was hearing a plea of one Balam Singh Rawat who had challenged the setting up of a hazardous waste disposal unit in Mundka vil...
Gujarat issues new environment audit guidelinesThe Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued fresh guidelines for chemical industries and Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs).
- Bhopal tragedy: Supreme Court slams Centre for 'failure' to dispose waste
Supreme Court today pulled up the Centre for not being serious on disposal of toxic waste lying in the defunct Union Carbide India Ltd (UCI...
- Toxic waste not to be dumped in Dhar: GoM
The GoM on Bhopal gas disaster has vetoed the move to dump around 347 metric tonnes of toxic waste of the Union Carbide’s Bhopal plant in D...
- Hazardous waste drowning ground water
Going by the latest report of SC there are only 10 TSDFs for industrial hazardous waste in the country.
- Pollution board serves notices to 10 Maharashtra units
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued notices to 10 industrial units across the state for non-compliance with the Hazar...