Industrial Pollution

Outsourcing polluting processes is common in pharmaceuticals, a fact admitted by both industry and regulators. M Narayana Reddy, president of Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association (BDMA) and owner of Virchow Chemicals, says outsourcing keeps profit margins high. "We at Virchow do not outsource. My profit is a third of what others earn by outsourcing polluting processes,' he adds.

Publication Date:

30/10/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20071031

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Drug Industry, Andhra Pradesh, Industrial Pollution

Industry

2006: The waterloo year <br>

T he year 2006 will go down as environment's watershed year. This is not because this year we have had extraordinary success in environmental management; there was also no environmental disaster per se . This year must be remembered because the task of environmental management has come to be even more contested and even more challenged.

Publication Date:

14/01/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070115

pp:

0

Tags:

Forests, Mining, Industrial Pollution, Dams, Watershed Development, Environment Management

Agriculture

Agriculture affected

Agriculture, the mainstay of Chhattisgarh's economy, is getting a battering from two sides

Publication Date:

14/09/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20060915

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Industrial Pollution, Industry, Chhattisgarh

Industry

For a better future

the Union government has shut down 125 highly polluting industries across the country while forcing 1,261 such units to install the pollution control facilities, according to a report. The ministry of environment and forests has identified about 1,551 large and medium industries in the 17 categories of highly polluting industries. Nearly 165 of them are still in process of installing the requisite facilities to control pollution, said the ministry's annual report.

Publication Date:

30/07/1998

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution Control, Forests, Industrial Pollution, Government Of India (GOI), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India

Industry