Energy

Estimating carbon emissions from China’s coal-to-chemical industry during the “13th Five-year Plan” period

China’s coal-and-chemical industry has long been controversial for its high level of carbon emissions. In the recently released “13th Five-year Plan for Energy”, the coal-to-chemical industry was set a number of key construction regions. Meanwhile, global fossil fuel carbon emissions have seen a zero growth rate for three years in a row.

Publication Date: 
25/04/2017
Greenpeace East Asia
Tags:
Coal Industry, Chemical Industry, Carbon Intensity, Fossil Fuels, China, Carbon Dioxide
Water Resources

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding laying of pipeline in the CRZ area of Uppanar river for carrying out Vinyl Chloride Monomer, Tamil Nadu, 24/03/2017

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of S Prabakaran, Nadu Theru, Sothikuppam, Cuddalore VS Ministry of Environment & Forests dated 24/03/2017 regarding the laying of pipeline by Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) Technology or any other means in the CRZ area of Uppanar River for carrying out Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) or any such hazardous material which according to the Applicant is a prohibited activity under the CRZ Notification, 1991 and to set aside the approval granted by MoEF to M/s.

Judgement Date: 
24/03/2017
Tags:
Rivers, Tamil Nadu, Coastal Regulations, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Hazardous Products, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment Clearance (EC), Cuddalore, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Public Hearing, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Chemical Industry
Environment

Tata Chemicals Haldia plant gets shutdown notice

MUMBAI: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed Tata Chemicals to shut down its fertilizer plant in Haldia (West Bengal) for violating liquid waste discharge rules.

Publication Date: 
15/03/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
West Bengal, Chemical Industry, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Industrial Pollution, Environment
Environment

Comply or shut down: Pollution Board

Industries along the Ganga basin told to install online monitoring systems, errant units to face closure beginning March

Publication Date: 
27/02/2017
Daily News Analysis (Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Air Act 1981, Air Quality Monitoring, Chemical Industry, Textile Industry, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Environment
Environment

Fire raging in Tamil Nadu industrial unit

VELLORE: A fire broke out at the processing unit of a company in Phase III of SIPCOT in Ranipet in the early hours of Monday.

Publication Date: 
31/01/2017
Times Of India (Chennai)
Tags:
Tamil Nadu, Industrial Pollution, Chemical Industry, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Cement Industry, Environment
Environment

1,160 polluting industries to be shifted to outskirts of Hyderabad

Hyderabad: As many as 1,160 polluting industries will be shifted out of Hyderabad city.

Publication Date: 
28/12/2016
Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)
Tags:
Telangana, Industrial Pollution, Hyderabad (T), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Chemical Industry, Auto Industry, Environment
Environment

Notice issued to industries for flouting pollution norms

ROURKELA:After a lull, the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has recently issued whips to a host of industrial units including sponge iron plants in the environmentally fragile Sundargar

Publication Date: 
01/11/2016
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Sundargarh (D), Industrial Pollution, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Chemical Industry, Air Pollution, Industrial Waste, Environment
Environment

DPCC orders closure of 146 polluting units

NEW DELHI: Residents living in the vicinity of Mandoli in northeast Delhi can hope to breathe easy in the months ahead.

Publication Date: 
26/10/2016
Ambika Pandit
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Industrial Pollution, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), Uttar Pradesh, Chemical Industry, Industrial Waste, Environmental Health, Environment
Environment

GPCB red-lights fresh NOCs for units in polluted Padra

VADODARA: At a time when Gujarat government is making efforts to get the six years long moratorium on industrial clusters of Vapi, Ankleshwar and Vatva (Ahmedabad) lifted, restrictions on expansion

Publication Date: 
26/10/2016
Prashant Rupera
Times Of India (Vadodara)
Tags:
Gujarat, Industrial Pollution, Chemical Industry, Vapi, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Industrial Waste, Environmental Security, Environment
Environment

World’s worst pollution problems 2016: the toxics beneath our feet

The World’s Worst Pollution Problems 2016: The Toxics Beneath Our Feet updates the top ten point-source polluting industries based on each source’s global burden of disease. Pollution and the diseases that it causes have become a massive and extremely costly global problem.

Publication Date: 
25/10/2016
Pure Earth
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Toxic Wastes, Health Effects, Mining, Leather Industry, Chemical Industry, Lead Industry, Paint And Dye Industry, Industrial Estates, Developing Countries, India, Industrial Waste

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