Overtakes HP to top in the guide for 2012

Wipro, the Bangalore-based company with interests in consumer goods, electronics hardware and IT services among others, has topped the 'Guide to Greener Electronics’ list for 2012 released by global non-governmental environmental organisation Greenpeace. The company, which previously participated in the Indian edition of the Guide, had made its debut in the international version of Greenpeace’s Guide this year.

Fines issued for only seven of 4,123 oil spills since 2000, with no company having to pay more than £20,000

Wal-Mart Stores Inc has given global suppliers five years to comply with its environmental rules or risk being pushed off U.S.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pledged $50 million to strengthen institutional mechanism for biodiversity conservation in the country.

The European Union’s energy chief may have declared that the bloc’s 143 nuclear power stations are “satisfactory” but a report on the state of each of those nuclear reactors has pointed to hundreds of problems was presented to EU three days ago in Brussels. The report suggests that the problems to be sorted out at the reactors could cost up to $40 billion or about `2 lakh crores.

The report, commissioned after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, stated, “On the basis of the stress test results, practically all nuclear plants need to undergo safety improvements. Hundreds of technical upgrade measures have already been identified.”

Greenpeace on Sunday demanded that the Indian government re-look at its massive expansion of coal mining in forest areas. It also demanded a moratorium on new coal mines.

David Cameron yesterday reassured opponents to a third runway at Heathrow that he would honour his manifesto not to expand it before the end of the current parliament.

The environmental activists are up in arms at the fuel consumption of the new Golf, claiming it isn't good enough.