This unpublished CPCB report on “Mercury balance in Thermal Power Plants in Singrauli” received by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) through RTI is exclusively available here. An attempt was made in this study to investigate the fate of mercury during burning of coal in thermal plants and to prepare a mass balance of mercury.

The government department to provide relief to the victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy may be closed down

The Supreme Court s decision, giving a go ahead to the Sardar Sarovar Project, has regenerated the debate.

Six years of litigation over the Sardar Sarovar dam comes to an end with the Supreme Court giving the go ahead to construction. The fate of those displaced by the dam still hangs in balance

The human tragedy that will unfold as a result of the Sardar Sarovar dam has to be mitigated

The local communities have done a good job in regenerating degraded forest lands

madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra have started large-scale evaluation of genetically modified Bacillus thuringiensis (b t ) cotton plants, despite the Union government still finalising the

the Madhya Pradesh police has filed a case against the traders who distributed chemically-treated bajra seeds (pearl millet) to farmers in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh. At least 80

...but chemical pesticides don t discriminate; 77 national birds die after eating sprayed grains

A special technology mission is being set up by the government for states that have unsatisfactory population control records. The states are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Assam, Bihar and

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