Energy

Scanner on coal firm

Ranchi, March 23: A coal mining company that supplies the precious mineral from Pakur to Punjab for production of electricity invited the wrath of both the Opposition and the treasury bench today for allegedly violating pollution and transport norms.

Publication Date: 
24/03/2010
Telegraph (Ranchi)
Tags:
Pollution, Mineral-Based Industry, Coal, Transport, Thermal Power Plants, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Dumka, Jharkhand, Pakur (D), Coal Industry
Environment

Whither imperatives of environmental justice?

The disproportionate distribution of environmental risks among the population is known as environmental justice, environmental equity or at some instance environmental racism. All these terms in fact define the status that the poor suffer greater exposure to environmental pollution than other communities.

Publication Date: 
25/02/2010
Ranen Sen, Sharadindra Chakrabarti
Current Science
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Environment, Health Effects, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Environmental Health, Poverty, Legislation, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), United States Of America (US), Developing Countries, Pollution
Environment

Industrial clusters to be re-verified

The 88 industrial clusters identified by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will be re-verified for the amount of pollution they generate, on the basis of which they will be re-rated.

Publication Date: 
23/02/2010
Kirtika Suneja
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Chhattisgarh, Korba (D), Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa (Odisha), Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Ghaziabad (D)
Agriculture

Consumers should have choice on Bt brinjal

Jairam Ramesh, the Union minister for environment and forests, has agreed to put Bt brinjal on hold. I believe this is the right and only decision that he could have taken.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2010
Sunita Narain
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Organic Farming, GM Crops, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), CSE, Toxins, Bt Brinjal
Hazardous Waste

Pollution at critical level in 5 Maharashtra towns

New Delhi: Amid rising concern about public health in industrial towns, the Centre has put on hold the expansion of 43 industrial clusters, including five in Maharashtra, that have reached alarming and critical levels of pollution.

Publication Date: 
25/12/2009
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Aurangabad (D), Maharashtra, Chandrapur (D), Mumbai
Environment

Minister for moratorium on new units at 43 highly polluted areas

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Thursday recommended a moratorium on new units at 43 highly polluted industrial areas in the country.

Publication Date: 
25/12/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Industrial Pollution, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Korba (D), Bhiwani (D), Chandrapur (D), Angul (D), Ludhiana (D)
Environment

This Minister Wants Less Power

It's not often that a minister in India willingly gives up some of his powers. Minister for Environment and Forests

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Publication Date: 
18/10/2009
Puja Mehra
Business Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Pollution, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Hazardous Waste

Ramesh orders inquiry into ship off Alang, Gujarat says its clean

An inquiry has been ordered into reports that an allegedly radioactive contaminated ship from the US has anchored off the Alang coast in Gujarat, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
16/10/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Radioactive Waste, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Gujarat, Toxic Wastes
Hazardous Waste

Government orders probe

NEW DELHI: The Union government has ordered an inquiry into the anchoring of a United States ship, reportedly laden with radioactive substances, off the Alang coast in Gujarat.

Publication Date: 
15/10/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Hazardous Waste, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), United States Of America (US), Gujarat, Toxins
Hazardous Waste

Toxic ship: Centre sends probe team to Gujarat

Nitin Sethi | TNN

New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) giving it a clean chit, but Union environment ministry rejecting it to send its own team to the state for investigation.

Publication Date: 
15/10/2009
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Hazardous Waste, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), United States Of America (US), Gujarat, Toxins

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