The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has ordered the closure of 51 electroplating, pickling and phosphating units in Ludhiana for discharging untreated waste into sewerage lines.
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) personnel removed 10 jiggers and the three illegal dyeing units that were using them at Samayasangili in Pallipalayam Union, Tiruchengode Taluk, on Thursday.
A common effluent treatment plant for small scale industries will come up in Pimpri Chinchwad, though it would take some time before the project takes off. Currently, effluents from these industries are released directly into the rivers without being treated, raising environmental concerns.
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and MCCIA will build the plant jointly.
The second phase of concrete-lining project of Kalingarayan Canal is at tender stage.
Civil works of the project for which the State Government has sanctioned Rs. 41 crore were likely to commence during February. The project envisages concrete lining of the canal to a distance of three miles and three furlongs over a six-month duration, official sources said.
The National Green Tribunal has allowed an NGO, opposing dumping of industrial waste into the river Yamuna, to file a list of any unit other than steel pickling factories which are discharging harm
The first thematic park on block printing in the country at Jaipur created a new benchmark on Wednesday for the textile industry setting up a common effluent treatment plant ( CEPT) that would achi
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) has identified and categorised as “red” 195 factories and small-scale industries (SSIs) across the state, for not complying with the Board’s norms in terms of the level of pollution caused by them.
Notices for closure have been sent to all of them. A majority of these industries comprise drug manufacturers, plastic firms, sugar factories etc. that have a huge disposal of byproducts.
Ordering shut down of all units in the leather complex here after its effluent treatment plant was found discharging toxic water into the rainwater drain, Punjab Pollution Control Board has also di
Kerala government has been given one month time to submit a reply to the Supreme Court in a case pertaining to pollution caused by plywood manufacturing units in Vengola panchayat in Ernakulam dist
Hundreds of villagers, all oustees of ACC cement factory, blocked the path of the HP State Pollution Control Board Chairman Kuldip Singh Pathania at Barmana chowk and gheraod him and forced him to
