Andhra Pradesh

Compensatory Afforestation

Compensatory afforestation is a dubious and controversial environmental “offset” that is adding to environmental damage instead of mitigating or compensating it. Compensatory afforestation may actually be accelerating the invasion of India’s forests by big corporations, in collusion with a permissive state, by legitimising the destruction of forests, greenwashing the land grabs, and encroaching on common property resources and community-held lands.

Publication Date:

23/09/2017

Author(s): Soumitra Ghosh

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

52

Issue:

38

pp:

67-75

Tags:

Deforestation, Land Use, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Mining, Dams, Compensatory Afforestation, Polavaram, Lower Subansiri, Durgapur, Sikkim, Arunachal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Forest Clearance, Environment Clearance (EC)

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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding consent to operate for a rice mill in Maruthi Nagar, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, 22/09/2017

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone Bench, Chennai) in the matter of M/s.Subrahmanyeswara Swamy Rice Mill Vs Andhra Pradesh State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 22/09/2017 regarding consent to operate for Subrahmanyeswara Swamy Rice Mill, Maruthi Nagar, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh. Tribunal directs Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) to inspect the rice mill and if all the deficiencies have been taken care of, then the rice mill shall be permitted to operate.

Judgement Date:

22/09/2017

Tags:

Small Scale Industry, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Guntur (D), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Andhra Pradesh, Agro-Based Industry

Energy

AP government steps up efforts to promote wind power

Following pressure from the GoM on energy, the state government has taken this decision.

Publication Date:

22/09/2017

Source: Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Andhra Pradesh, Wind Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Power Industry, Energy

Health

Tirumala temple gets food safety licence to serve, make laddus

TIRUPATI: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) obtained a food safety licence like any other Food Business Operator (FBO) for the famed Tirupati laddu.The TTD applied for food safety licence in

Publication Date:

20/09/2017

Source: New Indian Express (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Andhra Pradesh, Food Safety, Religious Beliefs, Religious Places, Tirupati, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Health

Environment

Oceans have become dumping grounds

Something needs to be done to check it: expert

Publication Date:

18/09/2017

Source: Hindu (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Andhra Pradesh, Vishakhapatnam (D), Oceans and Seas, Plastics, Non-Biodegradable Waste, Marine Ecosystems, National Green Trbunal (NGT), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Industrial Pollution, Environment

Environment

Give judgment on Amaravati, NGT urged

Social activist Bolisetty Satyanarayana on Saturday appealed to the National Green Tribunal to pass on the judgment on the petition filed by him against environmental clearance to the construction

Publication Date:

18/09/2017

Source: Hindu (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati, Environment Clearance (EC), National Green Trbunal (NGT), Eco-Sensitive Zone, Environmental Security, Environment

Environment

Vijayawada Municipal Corporation to impose ban on plastic bags from January

VIJAYAWADA: Those who are accustomed to using polythene bags and disposing wastes directly into the water bodies may soon face the music from Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) as the civic bod

Publication Date:

18/09/2017

Source: New Indian Express (Hyderabad)

Tags:

Andhra Pradesh, Plastics, Non-Biodegradable Waste, Vijayawada, Environmentalists, Environmental Security, Environment

Energy