The Department of Environment on Sunday fined two textile industries Tk 50.84 lakh in the Kalurghat industrial area of the Chittagong city on charge of polluting the River Karnaphuli.
A DoE team, led by its director (enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, fined the Sunji Textile Limited Tk 22.84 lakh as it was found releasing untreated chemical wastes into the river keeping its treatment plant off.
Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) today slapped cases against three coal washeries belonging to BCCL and SAIL for ignoring earlier notices and continuing to discharge effluents in the Damodar river.
The cases were filed against deputy general manager of Chasnala coal washery of Steel Authority of India Limited and project officers of Sudamdih Coal washery and Madhuban Coal Washery
A Day after residents of the Doaba region and Rajasthan blocked the discharge of industrial waste into the Kala Sanghia drain, the district administration made it clear to industrialists that polluting units would not be tolerated.
After the failure of the district administration and the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to stop the flow of polluted untreated industrial and sewage waste into the Kala Sanghia drain, natural water source, villagers from Doaba region and Rajasthan on Wednesday decided to take matters into their own hands.
CHENNAI: The leather industry needs to move from zero liquid waste discharge to the relatively more challenging environmental goal of zero solid waste discharge as it seeks to increase its share of world trade, experts said on Sunday.
Participating in the celebration of Foundation Day of the Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), experts said while the Indian leather industry had a promisin
