Solid Waste

Green activists welcome Delhi ban on plastic bags

NEW DELHI: Environmentalists on Tuesday welcomed the Delhi government's decision to impose a blanket ban on manufacture, sale, storage and usage of plastic bags in the capital city.

In a move to make Delhi a plastic free city, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday announced a blanket ban on plastic bags under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.

Publication Date: 
06/04/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment Act 1986, Non-Biodegradable Waste, Plastics, Delhi, Sunita Narain, High Court
Solid Waste

Total ban on plastic bags in Delhi

Cabinet approves blanket ban on sale, storage and usage
The Delhi Cabinet on Monday approved a blanket ban on manufacture, sale, storage and usage of plastic bags under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Council and Delhi Police would be instructed to strictly enforce the ban.

Publication Date: 
05/04/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment Act 1986, Plastics, Delhi, Non Biodegradable Waste, Municipal Corporation, High Court, Garbage
Environment

All Sooted Up

A thermal plant threatens a rich wetlandWhere The Muck Is

The coal-fired ECEPL power project is a grave threat to one of the few coastal swamps in eastern India
Just 5 km from Telineelapuram bird sanctuary.

Publication Date: 
14/03/2011
Madhavi Tata
Outlook (New Delhi)
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Thermal Power Plants, Wetlands, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment Act 1986
Environment

The Key Word Is Balance'

After taking over as minister of environment and forests with independent charge in

Publication Date: 
07/02/2011
Outlook (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Rivers, Orissa (Odisha), High Court, Ganga, Environment Act 1986
Solid Waste

MMC directed to stop dumping mixed waste

The Mapusa Municipal Council has been directed by the Goa State Pollution Control Board to stop dumping of unsegregated waste on the Assagao plateau and to prevent such acts put up fencing around the site.

Publication Date: 
19/01/2011
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Goa, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Environment Act 1986, Solid Waste, Garbage
Habitat And Urbanisation

Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society: Final orders

Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society: Final orders and other relevant documents.

Publication Date: 
16/01/2011
Ministry of Environment & Forests
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Mumbai, Coastal Regulations, Environment Act 1986, Maharashtra, Land Reclamation
Environment

New CRZ covers sea up to 12 nautical miles

New Delhi: The environment ministry on Friday notified the long-pending Coastal Zone Regulations, changing the regime that manages development and construction along the 7,500 km coastline of the country.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced the notification and said state-level authorities would be given four months to identify all contraventions of CRZ rules and another four months to

Publication Date: 
08/01/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment Act 1986, Environment, Coastal Regulations, Coastal Erosion, Oceans and Seas
Environment

Is Jairam being eco-logical?

From where does the environment ministry derive its power?

For industry, the most important set of environment rules that determine their life derive from the Environment (Protection) Act of 1986.

Publication Date: 
07/12/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment, Environment Act 1986, Environment Management
Habitat And Urbanisation

Heat on 13 mega projects for lack of green clearance'

Mumbai Pollution monitor serves showcause notices, each project built parking lots for extra FSI

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has issued show-cause notices to 13 real estate projects on the ground that they haven

Publication Date: 
02/12/2010
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Floor Space Index (FSI), Parking Policy, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Environment Act 1986, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mumbai
Environment

Reforms in environmental governance: with special reference to establishment of National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA)

The discussion paper on National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority proposed by MoEF as an autonomous, multi-disciplinary appraisal and monitoring agency.

 

Publication Date: 
28/11/2010
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Environment, India, Environment Act 1986, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Coastal Regulations, Sustainable Development, Governance

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