Environment

After hotels, 79 brick kilns get closure notice

SHILLONG: After slapping closure notices on several city hotels and guest houses for failing to install Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs) and releasing untreated polluted water directly to the river

Publication Date: 
03/08/2016
Shillong Times (Shillong)
Tags:
Meghalaya, Fly Ash Bricks, Bricks, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), National Green Trbunal (NGT), Compensation, Environmental Security, Environment
Environment

HC pulls up DM on polluting units

Ghaziabad: The Allahabad high court has given the district magistrate and the pollution board chief time till August 3 to act on pollution in Ghaziabad, failing which their salaries will be withhel

Publication Date: 
14/07/2016
Times Of India (Noida)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Ghaziabad (D), Industrial Pollution, Fly Ash Bricks, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), High Court, Environment, Regulations
Environment

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding utilisation of fly ash, 04/07/2016

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Co. Ltd. Vs. CG Environment Conservation Board & Others dated 04/07/2016. These Applications primarily pertain to the compliance been made in terms of the notification issued by the MoEF, Government of India dated 03.11.2009 as amended now in 2016 during the pendency of the Application for utilisation of fly ash.

Judgement Date: 
04/07/2016
Tags:
Thermal Power Plants, Fly Ash, Chhattisgarh, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Fly Ash Bricks
Water Pollution

'Fly ash a cheap solution to Bellandur lake's pollution'

Fly ash helps in the treatment of polluted water even with 10,000/20,000 parts per million (ppm) sewage and industrial effluents, says a researcher. dh file pic

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