The mercury issue is back to haunt Hindustan Lever Limited (hll). The Hazardous Waste Management Committee (hwmc) of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has ordered the company to submit all

A new international pact will force companies to disclose the pollutants they emit, factory by factory. The treaty, negotiated under the auspices

Two environmental groups of western Pennsylvania, USA, have sued a company that disposed of toxic wastes at community dumpsites, contaminating wells and hurting property values. The groups are suing

Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union

#1 Who is the polluter? What is their waste-typology? This is the first critical and often make-or-break step. Get the property rights regime wrong and it is clear that nothing will work, is the

If cetps are the answer, how do we make them work? The choice of technology, however important, is not the only challenge ahead. The key is to build a much stronger framework for common waste