According to regional officials of the CECB, notices were recently issued to several townships and infrastructure projects as they were flouting green norms.
MPCB officials said that the responses received from the BMC to the notices were on the steps they were taking to eventually control the waste being dumped at Deonar.
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has set up Real Time National Ambient Noise Monitoring Network in the year 2011 covering nine cities (Delhi, Lucknow, Chennai, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore). Under section 2 (a) of Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 noise is defined as air pollutant.
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Monday issued prosecution notices to the executive engineer and plant engineer for the Deonar dumping ground, even as residents living in i
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of M/S Murshidabad District Brick Field Owners’ Association Vs Joydeep Mukherjee & Others dated 19/01/2016 regarding brick kilns operating without consent to operate, Murshidabad, West Bengal.
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zonal Bench, Chennai) in the matter of M/s. Sankar Blue Metals Vs Tamil Nadu pollution Control Board & Others dated 14/01/2016.
Just before the Delhi government's odd-even formula comes into effect, the Centre on Wednesday stepped in with the environment ministry shooting off a series of directions with timelines to state g
The recent uproar about the toxic levels of pollution in the country’s national capital region has once again brought to fore the failure of the regulatory and legal mechanisms in India to control air pollution.
