Hazardous Waste

Dow Chemicals issue triggers uproar in Gujarat

Two days after Chief Minister Narendra Modi embarrassed UPA chief Sonia Gandhi over the 1984 Union Carbide leak incident, the BJP and Opposition Congress here engaged in a slanging match over US company Dow Chemicals

Publication Date: 
16/06/2010
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Chemical Industry, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Hazardous Waste, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, Gujarat, Bharuch, Pioneer (New Delhi)
Water Resources

Water bodies cleaned up and ready for the monsoon

City anchor: high court had set up panel to initiate restoration of water bodies; Bulk of work done by delhi govt; ASI, CPWD too chip in

Publication Date: 
14/06/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Resources, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Monsoons, High Court, Archaeological Survey Of India (ASI), Society And History, Delhi, Indian Express (New Delhi)
Solid Waste

Why no norms for plastic industry?

Gokul Chandrasekar

Publication Date: 
07/06/2010
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Solid Waste, Plastics, High Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Tamil Nadu, New Indian Express (Chennai)
Water Resources

Let this rain trickle down

TOI gives reasons why water harvesting on large scale is only hope for city

Water was like oxygen

Publication Date: 
05/06/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Resources, Groundwater, Water Harvesting, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Delhi, Times Of India (New Delhi), Rainfall, Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
Health

Contaminated mid-day meal: Rs 4 lakh for 126 students

Putting absolute liability on the Delhi government to ensure the mid-day meal provided in its schools is cooked properly, the Delhi High Court on Thursday directed it to pay over Rs 4 lakh as compensation to 126 students who had fallen ill after consuming the food in a government school.

Publication Date: 
04/06/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Health Care, Child Health, Mid-Day Meal Programme, NGO, Delhi, Indian Express (New Delhi)
Biodiversity

Mangroves vs airport: Mumbai's development battle

Plans for a new international airport in the coastal city of Mumbai will destroy yet more of its mangrove ecosystems, and there are fears the deal has already been closed.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2010
Tom Levitt, Ambika Hiranandani
Ecologist
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Tags:
Wetlands, Land Reclamation, Mangroves, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Air Transport, Biodiversity, High Court, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), NGO, Mumbai, Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, Ecologist, Tom Levitt, Ambika Hiranandani
Environment

Strengthening locus standi in Public Interest Environmental Litigation: Has leadership moved from the United States to South A?

There is an increasing shift towards globalisation not only of the world economies but also of the world's legal systems. Broadening of locus standi in South Africa has deconstructed the fears that informed the conservative common law approach to the issue of locus standi or standing, with its roots in private law individual rights.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2010
Tumai Murombo
Law Environment And Development Journal
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Tags:
Environment, Court, South Africa, United States Of America (US), Globalisation, Law Environment And Development Journal, Tumai Murombo, Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
Hazardous Waste

HC issues notice to govt on Mayapuri

New Delhi: Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking sealing of Mayapuri scrap market where radioactive isotope was found recently, Delhi high court has issued notice to the authorities.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Nuclear Wastes, High Court, Delhi, Times Of India (New Delhi)
Water Pollution

CPCB Guidelines for idol immersion

Idol worship has been in the practice in India since ancient time. In present scenario, metals, ornaments, oily substances, synthetic colours,chemical are used to make polish and decorate idols for worship and when theseidols are immersed our aquatic and surrounding environment get severally affected. Hence, there is urgent need to develop the guidelines for idol immersion.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2010
CPCB
Tags:
Water Pollution, India, Religious Beliefs, High Court, Bombay, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Maharashtra, Municipal Corporations, Non Biodegradable Waste, Waste Management, Durga Puja, Ganesh Chaturthi
Environment

HC rule to remove salt industry from river

The High Court yesterday issued a rule upon the Government to explain by three weeks as to why it should not be directed to remove a salt industry from the Buriganga river at Lalbagh area in the capital.

A bench of the High Court (HC) Division of the Supreme Court comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Md Delwar Hossain passed the order upon a public interest litigation (PIL) w

Publication Date: 
30/05/2010
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Bangladesh, Salt Industry, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), River Pollution

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