Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna is proposing to convert the 22-kilometre Yamuna riverbank stretch into a biodiversity zone, seen by experts as a radical ecological solution to the dying river.

It

Ivory Coast sued Trafigura for dumping toxic waste THE High Court of Justice in London ruled that some testimonies against Dutch oil trading company accused of dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast will be heard in private. The ruling followed allegations that the company, Trafigura, was trying to influence witnesses. The people of Ivory Coast have sued Trafigura for US $160 million in

Simon Romero

Claudia Albino, a washerwoman who earns about $3 a day and lives in a one-room hovel with her family in this bleak town of La Oroya in the Andes, might seem at first to have nothing to do with Ira Rennert, the reclusive New York billionaire who built one of the largest homes in the United States, an Italianate mansion sprawling over more than 66,000 square feet in the Hamptons.

European environment chiefs agreed new laws Thursday to crack down on acid pollution from heavy industries such as steel, power plants and refining, EU diplomats said.

Existing power plants will have to comply with the new emissions standards by 2016, but countries can opt to phase the controls in between 2016 and the end of 2020, the diplomats said.

It has issued show cause notice to the plant

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has found the chilly oil extract plant here guilty of polluting the environment.

It has issued show cause notice to the plant seeking explanation as to why criminal action should not be initiated against it.

Giridih, June 19: The villagers of Giridih are firm. They will not allow construction of any sponge iron unit in the district as past experience has shown that industrialists do nothing to check the pollution caused by the plants.

THE World Bank will extend a $180-million loan to India for upgrading its polluting coal-fired power plants and bringing down carbon emissions.

A complaint will be lodged with the police, says RDO

Stern action: Revenue Department and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board officials re-sealed 11 dyeing and bleaching units that were in operation even after they were found violating an earlier closure order.