THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groundwater levels in Pudussery grama panchayat, Palakkad, where Pepsico has its unit, are falling, the Assembly was told on Thursday.

MUMBAI: A major environmental disaster is brewing along the northern coastline of Maharashtra, which, according to a recent study done by the Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) for the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), has higher levels of pollution than any other coastline in India.

MUMBAI: The survey of coastal waters suggests that the influx of industrial waste into inner estuarine zones-tidal areas where the sea meets rivers-should be discouraged for new industries. Stringent measures are also suggested for the treatment of effluents that are presently released into the sea without any controls.

Indian Oil Corporation

After Coca-Cola, another soft drink major, Pepsi, has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala, which has alleged its plant in Palakkad district is extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants.

The plant at Pudussery was found to have been depleting the water table in the locality over the years, the state assembly was informed today.

M Sarita Varma

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government has flexed its muscles at Coke and Pepsi at one go. Within 24 hours of deciding to set up a tribunal to fine Rs 196 crore as environmental damages from Coca Cola, LDF government has indicated that Pepsico factory in Kanjikode too, is guilty of environmental offences.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Groundwater levels in Pudussery grama panchayat, Palakkad, where Pepsico has its unit, are falling, the Assembly was told on Thursday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After Coca Cola, another soft-drink major Pepsi has come on the radar of the LDF government in Kerala which has alleged that its plant in Palakkad district was extracting excess ground water and discharging effluents and solid wastes with pollutants.

An influential Republican lawmaker on Wednesday urged US President Barack Obama to reverse a recent decision of the US Export-Import Bank (Exim bank) against financing Reliance Power

An environmentalist group has applauded the Exim Bank of the United States for its decision to not to finance Reliance