Health

Mobile tower radiations: New kid in pollution block

KOLKATA, 14 FEB: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) receives several complaints against radiations from mobile network towers, but it is unable to act on them as it has not been delegated any power to deal with electro-pollution.
The WBPCB officials said that harmful effects of non-ionizing radiation from telecommunication towers is a much-debated topic and had been adequately resear

Publication Date: 
15/02/2011
Statesman (Kolkata)
Tags:
State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Radiation, Telecommunication, Child Health, Health Effects, West Bengal, Calcutta (D), Pollution
Energy

Government, experts back Jaitapur project

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday made an emotional appeal for the Jaitapur nuclear power project, saying that he would never tolerate an unsafe project for Maharashtra at any cost. Speaking at the

Publication Date: 
19/01/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nuclear Power Plants, Ratnagiri (D), Energy, Environment, Nuclear Power Corporation Of India (NPCIL), Radiation, Health Effects
Solid Waste

Stop dumping waste at Assagao, Mapusa civic body told

The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued a show-cause notice to Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) in connection with environmental pollution on the Assagao Plateau and its vicinity.
The Assagao Communidade and residents in the locality had objected to the dumping and burning of garbage by MMC on Assagao hill.
Acting on this, the GSPCB had directed MMC to immediately stop dumping of

Publication Date: 
17/01/2011
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Goa, Solid Waste, Garbage, Pollution, Health Effects
Health

Another milk scam rocks China, 96 held

Beijing: Executions are not enough deterrent for Chinese culprits bent on raking in money in illegal ways, the police has indicated. The Chinese police found the 2008 scandal being repeated in milk dairies and arrested 96 people for mixing the toxic additive melamine with milk.
A similar case of contamination had left six children dead and 300,000 sick in 2008.

Publication Date: 
14/01/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Milk, Toxins, Health Effects, China, Child Health
Solid Waste

Beach pollution worries locals

PARADIP: On the 6-km stretch of the beach are mounds of waste, leaving locals worried about their health.

The garbage at Kalinga Bali Yatra ground, which concluded last Friday, is an eyesore for onlookers.

The efforts of the municipal administration to clean it notwithstanding, locals are worried about the health hazards they may pose.

The worsening sanitation reflects on the illmaintaine

Publication Date: 
02/12/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Sewage, Pollution, Solid Waste, Waste Management, Coastal Development, Health Effects, Orissa (Odisha)
Energy

Poor peoples energy outlook 2010

 This new report presents a unique perspective on energy access in developing countries. Presents the experiences of energy use and deprivation of people living in poverty & alongwith recommendations on policy, financing & capabilities towards creation of a vibrant energy access “ecosystem” of energy product and service providers, engaging public, private & civil society sectors.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2010
Practical Action
Tags:
Energy, Developing Countries, India, Poverty, Energy Efficiency, Rural Electrification, Electricity, Household Energy, CFL, Health Effects, Biomass
Environment

Worlds worst pollution problems report 2010

This new report released by Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland highlights the top six toxic threats to global health.It ranks pollutants according to the number of people estimated to be at risk from each toxin and describes their physical nature, industries that typically cause their release, common human exposure pathways, and known health effects.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2010
Andrew McCartor, Dan Becker
Blacksmith Institute
Tags:
Pollution, Environment, Mercury, Arsenic, Pesticides, Health Effects, Developing Countries, India, Industrial Pollution, Pollution Control, Heavy Metals, Mining, Radioactive Waste, Lead
BLOG
Air Pollution and Mobility
28 Sep 2010
Air Pollution in the Month of October is Getting Worse - is Delhi Ready?
For the city of Delhi, an air quality index methodology was proposed and applied for six criteria pollutants - PM10, PM2.5, CO, NOx, SO2, and Ozone and analyzed for trends in the past three years of data. The AQI is reported on a scale of 0 to 500 and subdivided into six colored bins for easy understanding of the common person and the media.
sarathgkunda's picture
By:
Dr. Sarath Guttikunda
Posted in:
Dispersing Pollution
Blog Feeds
Hazardous Waste

Poisoned ground

IT was when the men in moon suits arrived that it really sank in. There they were, with breathing apparatus and impermeable all-in-ones, gingerly taking away the material that had been sitting for five years in an open-air scrapyard in the middle of the busiest part of town.

Publication Date: 
23/09/2010
Saran Hiddleston
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Mercury, Kodaikanal, Workers, Tamil Nadu, Health Effects, UNEP, Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Chennai (T), High Court, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Energy

Not liable

The passage by both houses of Parliament of the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 marks yet another step in the United Progressive Alliance government

Publication Date: 
03/09/2010
Economic and Political Weekly
45
36
7
Tags:
Nuclear Power Plants, Energy, Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear Safety, India, Private Sector, Atomic Energy Act 1962, Legislation, Nuclear Power Corporation Of India (NPCIL), Nuclear Wastes, Health Effects, Compensation

Pages