Awaits TANGEDCO approval to supply electricity
CHENNAI: The bio-methanation plant at Koyambedu, which remained dysfunctional for over two years, is all set to generate power from vegetable and fruit waste collected from the wholesale market.
The plant, which is operating for the past two months, is awaiting Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation's (TANGEDCO) approval to supply electr

The ministry of environment and forests, for the first time has chalked out comprehensive effluent standard norms for the rubber industry across all product categories. According to official sources this measure will check the pollution problem arising from rubber parks coming up in the country.

Stringent pollution norms to hit unorganised producers; with demand booming, organised firms step in.
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A delegation of All-India Tourist Taxi Association that represents about 10,000 DLY and DLZ taxi operators in Delhi would be meeting Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely on Tuesday to demand immediate rollback of the hike in the pollution-check fee and to press for removal of the private party engaged in this work.

General secretary of the Association Suraj Prakash Vaid said the Delhi Gover

New Delhi: With its earlier efforts failing to put an end to use of plastic bags in the city, the Delhi cabinet on Monday passed a bill to do away with the very root of the problem. It banned manufacturing of plastic bags.

MINISTER for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran, who piloted the Plachimada Special Tribunal Bill, 2011, in the State Assembly, said the High Power Committee (HPC) had found enough evidence to prove the presence of dangerous levels of cadmium and lead in the sludge distributed by the Coca-Cola unit at Plachimada and for the pollution of groundwater, drinking water and soil in the village.

New Delhi: Ignoring the Delhi high court's directions and subsequent Delhi government

In the light of its failure to enforce the existing ban on plastic bags, the Delhi government now plans to stop its manufacture in the Capital as easy availability of the product is blamed for its popularity among the public.

Senior environment officials say they have prepared a Cabinet note proposing a blanket ban on the manufacture of plastic bags, which could come up for approval anytime now