The Bombay High Court has asked Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) not to permit manufacturing units within 750 metres of a river from September 1 if existing facilities are not maintained for discharge of effluents.

Under the rules, facilities such as pipelines or Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) are required to be maintained to achieve the stipulated discharge standards. The directive was given by Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar who also asked the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to constitute within a month a committee for five MIDC estates in the state to monitor functioning of CETPs and for industrial units within MIDC areas.

The people of Eloor and Edayar are under trauma as the deaths due to chronic diseases continue.

The Kerala High Court had suggested that the construction of polluting industries should not be allowed in the Edayar industrial belt. The court made the suggestion on June 19 while considering a petition filed by Periyar Malineekarana Virudha Samithi. The 450-acre industrial area established in 1962 falls under the Kadungalloor panchayat.

Industrialists urged to take initiatives to ensure clean environment

Justice P. Sathasivam, Judge of Supreme Court, has asked the industrialists in Tirupur knitwear cluster to always abide by the court directives and take initiatives to provide a clean environment. “Courts can not remain silent on seeing the pollution caused on rivers and air. The orders of both Supreme Court and High Court on environmental/ pollution issues have always been pronounced for the good of the common public.

Three years after 16 people died from drinking contaminated water, the government has not relocated the hazardous industries from Bholakpur in Musheerabad.

The AP State Human Rights Commission had directed the authorities to shift the industrial units, particularly those dealing in the animal skin business, plastic and scrap outside city limits after the May 2009 tragedy and representations were made, pointing to the pollution-causing units. Though a high-level committee, comprising district collectors of Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy, GHMC and HMDA commissioners,

Notices issued to stop all industrial activities with effect from July 23 to complete ongoing batches

The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has ordered closure of 12 manufacturing units of different pharma companies, including Aurobindo Pharma, around the city for allegedly violating pollution norms. According to a Board's release, the notices have been issued to the facilities to stop all industrial activities with effect from July 23 to complete the on-going batches.

A committee of corporators has recommended that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation levy hefty penalties on industries that are releasing their sewage into the storm water drain network of

Ranchi, July 9: To make industries more accountable, cement and power plants of Jharkhand will henceforth have to be a part of a mandatory online ambient air quality monitoring system that will hel

The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has asked Graphite India Ltd to close its Bangalore plant till further orders, citing environmental pollution.

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) cracked whip against 255 companies, including government and private, for violating pollution norms.