Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)

India will take atleast 6 years to cap toxic emissions from power plants

India wanted to cap toxic emissions from power plants by December. It’s now discovering that target is at least 6 years from its reach.

Publication Date:

21/07/2017

Author(s): Rajesh Kumar Singh

Source: Economic Times (New Delhi)

Tags:

Industrial Pollution, Thermal Power Plants, Air Pollution, Environmental Health, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), WHO, PM 2.5, Nitrogen Dioxide, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Environmental Security, Environment

Water Pollution

Ganga's plight is no different from that of the 'holy cow'

Pollution load in the river Ganga has increased by nearly four times from 2009 to 2016 in the stretch between Haridwar to Kanpur

Publication Date:

20/07/2017

Author(s): Ritwick Dutta

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Ganga, River Pollution, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Supreme Court, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Water Pollution

Air Pollution

Delhi doesn’t come close to meeting US pollution standards on most days

The annual average PM2.5 concentration in Delhi is typically more than 10 times the US National Ambient Air Quality Standard of 12 micrograms per cubic metres.

Publication Date:

17/07/2017

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Delhi, Air Pollution, PM 2.5, Air Quality Standards, NGO, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Lucknow (T), Chandigarh

Environment

NGT raps Delhi govt over illegal industries in Northwest Delhi

The National Green Tribunal has rapped the Delhi government and the civic bodies for not giving details of the illegal industries sealed by them in Northwest Delhi.

Publication Date:

17/07/2017

Source: Daily News Analysis (Delhi)

Tags:

Delhi, Industrial Pollution, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Air Pollution, Municipal Corporation, Environmental Health, Environment

Environment

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding Manoj Mishra's petitions in NGT adversely affecting the environmental religious rights, 11/07/2017

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ojasvi Party Vs Ministry of Environment Forest dated 11/07/2017. The Applicant has alleged that Manoj Mishra and his fellow colleagues have filed several petitions in the guise of protection of environment and have adversely affected the environmental religious rights of the Hindu citizens by restraining them from immersing idols and other materials into the river Yamuna and declaring cracking of fire crackers and cremation of dead bodies by Hindus as polluting to the environment.

Judgement Date:

11/07/2017

Tags:

Yamuna, Religious Beliefs, River Pollution, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Environmentalists, NGO

Air Pollution

8am-8pm is new 'Delhi rush hour': CSE study

The traffic 'rush hour' extends from 8am to 8pm on arterial roads of Delhi, with average speeds not exceeding 30 kmph 92% of the time, reveals a Centre for Science and Environment study that analys

Publication Date:

11/07/2017

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Delhi, Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Cars and Congestion, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Nitrogen Dioxide, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)

Water Pollution

Now, industries polluting Ganga under live monitoring

LUCKNOW: Over the past two weeks, close to 3,750 SMSes and e-mail alerts have been issued to industries generating more than the permissible limit of pollutants in the Ganga basin.

Publication Date:

06/07/2017

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Uttar Pradesh, Ganga, River Pollution, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Industrial Pollution, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Water Pollution

Climate Change

9-year-old Haridwar girl who moved NGT invited for climate change conference in Paris

DEHRADUN: Nine-year-old Ridhima Pandey from Haridwar who moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) alleging inaction by the Centre to tackle the adverse impact of climate change has been invited to p

Publication Date:

05/07/2017

Source: Times Of India (Dehradun)

Tags:

Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Haridwar (D), National Green Trbunal (NGT), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Climate Change, WHO

Water Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding thermal power plants located in the basin area of river Ganga discharging effluents into river Ganga, 03/07/2017

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Indian Council for Enviro- Legal Action (ICELA) Vs. Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change & Others dated 03/07/2017 regarding thermal power plants located in the basin area of river Ganga are discharging any effluent into river Ganga or its tributaries.

Judgement Date:

03/07/2017

Tags:

Thermal Power Plants, Ganga, River Pollution, Uttar Pradesh, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, India, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)

Air Pollution