The EU has taken a major step towards implementing its emissions trading scheme (ETS), scheduled to begin in January 2005. On October 20, 2004, the European Commission (EC), the EU executive, gave a

One sad reality often mirrors another. Environment and health ministers from 15 eu countries have been proved to be contaminated, albeit by industrial chemicals. Results of a survey undertaken by

Clouds of uncertainty hang over the jobs of sub-regional officers (sro) of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (mpcb). The threat is from mpcb's recently launched assessment programme, which

Justice delayed is indeed justice denied, but in this case it will have at least some benefits. Japan's Supreme Court (SC) has held the government responsible for the spread of the Minamata

The Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL), a 51 per cent subsidiary of Unilever, has been asked to pay a fine of Rs 50 crore for polluting Kodaikanal. The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous

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