Environment

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding brick kilns operating within the buffer zone of the eco sensitive zone of Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 26/04/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of M/S Dinkar Bricks & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 26/04/2018 regarding brick kilns operating within the buffer zone of the eco sensitive zone of Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Also whether the brick kilns have valid consents to operate under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and Environmental Clearance under the EIA Notification, 2006.

Judgement Date: 
26/04/2018
Tags:
Bricks, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Dalma SA, Court, Eco-Sensitive Zone, Jharkhand, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Environment

Brick kilns and their dangerous impact

Bricks are one of the important building materials. In India, fired clay bricks are produced in traditional, unorganized small scale industries.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2018
Kashmir Monitor
Tags:
Bricks, Industry, Industrial Pollution, Environmental Health, Green House Gases, Health Effects, Environmental Security, Environment
Environment

Odisha: Kilns raise pollution concern

JAGATSINGHPUR: A good number of illegal brick kilns have come up in the district and environmentalists have opined that these brick kilns are responsible for rise in temperature in the region as we

Publication Date: 
20/04/2018
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Bricks, Industrial Pollution, Environmentalists, Land Degradation, Air Pollution, Land Pollution, River Pollution, Environment
Environment

Brick kiln denied nod in tiger bearing Katlabodi

Nagpur: Considering threat to tigers from ‘illegal’ brick kilns operating in Katlabodi in Kalmeshwar forest range, 30km from Nagpur, the revenue department has declined permission to one of the uni

Publication Date: 
09/04/2018
Times of India (Nagpur)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Bricks, Forests, Tiger Reserves, Forest Act 1927, Industrial Pollution, Forest Encroachments, Environment
Environment

Illegal brick kilns: NGT may impose fine on UP, 3 more states

GHAZIABAD: The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday cracked the whip on governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi for their failure to comply with its an earlier order regarding co

Publication Date: 
05/04/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Bricks, Fly Ash Bricks, Environmentalists, Environmental Security, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Environment
Environment

Environmental standards notification (Draft) for brick-kiln industry

The following draft rules, which the Central Government proposes to issue in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 and 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) read with sub-rule (3) of

Publication Date: 
15/03/2018
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Tags:
Bricks, Industry, Environment, India
Environment

Fly ash to be given out for free within 100 kilometere of power plants

The Fly Ash Council, chaired by Chief Secretary Sumit Mallick, told Mahagenco to work out the commercials of providing fly ash for free.

Publication Date: 
15/03/2018
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Fly Ash, Thermal Power Plants, Bricks, Air Pollution, Groundwater Pollution, Environment
Environment

State pollution board asks authorities to seal illegal brick kilns

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has asked the administrations of Puri and Khurda districts to seal illegal brick kilns.

Publication Date: 
12/03/2018
Times Of India (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa, Bricks, Environment Clearance (EC), Industrial Pollution, Regulations, Environment
Environment

NGT directs UP govt to file its reply in illegal operation of brick kilns in the state

GHAZIABAD: After none of the respondents including the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi, besides Union environment ministry filed their replies over illegal operation of b

Publication Date: 
07/03/2018
Times Of India (Noida)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Bricks, Fly Ash Bricks, Industrial Pollution, Environment Act 1986, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Environmental Security, Environment
Forests

Environment Committee seeks stringent steps to protect forest cover, natural resources

A meeting of the Committee on Environment of Legislative Assembly was held here today under the chairmanship of Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami to discuss the measures initiated to protect the environment

Publication Date: 
06/03/2018
Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Encroachments, Ecology, Bricks, Forest Conservation

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