Bhubaneswar: The international rights group Amnesty International on Thursday said that the red mud pond, containing toxic residue, at Vedanta's aluminium refinery in Odisha poses serious health risks to local people, a contention denied by the mining major.

However, refuting Amnesty

Dhanbad, May 26: Indicating it means business, Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has pulled up various stakeholders of the coal belt, including industries and civic organisations, for not doing enough to ensure a cleaner environment as envisaged in the Dhanbad Action Plan formulated last year.

Yesterday, the board distributed minutes of a review meeting it held on April 20 to Bhar

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) has claimed that the proposed 165-km pipeline for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Uran, near Mumbai, to Shikrapur via Chakan in Pune district will not pose any safety hazard for villages along its route.
This was revealed to DNA by the senior regional manager HPCL, PN Kanth, on Sunday.

The government must protect the wetlands, plant trees and phase out polluting vehicles for the city

Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) today slapped cases against three coal washeries belonging to BCCL and SAIL for ignoring earlier notices and continuing to discharge effluents in the Damodar river.

The cases were filed against deputy general manager of Chasnala coal washery of Steel Authority of India Limited and project officers of Sudamdih Coal washery and Madhuban Coal Washery

A Day after residents of the Doaba region and Rajasthan blocked the discharge of industrial waste into the Kala Sanghia drain, the district administration made it clear to industrialists that polluting units would not be tolerated.

If presence of effluents found in groundwater, governments and pollution control boards of two states will be asked to take action against erring units

While alcohol has damaged the health of north Indians, the units manufacturing it have been defiling the groundwater in Punjab and Haryana.

The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) in New Delhi has asked its regional office to conduct a study to

After the failure of the district administration and the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to stop the flow of polluted untreated industrial and sewage waste into the Kala Sanghia drain, natural water source, villagers from Doaba region and Rajasthan on Wednesday decided to take matters into their own hands.

The multi-crore Renuka Dam project is on hold, and 800 MW Kol Dam is also under the scanner of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Hul (4.5 M), a private sector project in Chamba, is witnessing daily protests by locals seeking scrapping of all the clearances given to it.