Water Pollution

TNPCB asks 86 units to shut shop

TWO Common Ef fluent Treatment plants (CETPs), 86 dyeing and washing units attached to these CETPs and an Individual Effluent Treatment Plant (IETP) were closed down by the Tirupur branch of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Wednesday, as the units were found to be discharging effluents into the Noyyal river.

Based on complaints, a team of TNPCB officials, led by District Enviro

Publication Date: 
16/12/2010
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Noyyal, River Pollution, Tiruppur, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Paint And Dye Industry, Industrial Waste, Industrial Pollution
Solid Waste

CII, Pollution Control Board discuss waste disposal problem

JAMMU, Dec 14: The CII J&K State Council in collaboration with J&K State Pollution Control Board organised function on Municipal Solid Waste Management, here today.

Deputy Commissioner Sanjeev Verma was the chief guest in the inaugural session.

Publication Date: 
15/12/2010
Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
Tags:
Waste Management, Solid Waste, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Jammu & Kashmir
Solid Waste

749 healthcare units get BBMP notices

Sandeep Moudgal, Bangalore, Dec 14, DHNS:

Acting on the Lok Adalat directions, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has issued notices to as many as 749 healthcare units in the City for not complying with the Bio Medical Waste Rules, 1998.

These units have also reportedly failed to produce the no objection certificate (NOC) from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB).

Publication Date: 
15/12/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Hospital Waste, Bangalore (T), Bio-Medical Waste Rules 1998, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Water Pollution

Panel concern over pollution of the Pampa

PATHANAMTHITTA: The Legislative Committee on Environment chaired by Rajaji Mathew Thomas has expressed concern over pollution of the Pampa at the foothills of Sabarimala during the Mandalam- Makaravilakku pilgrim season.

Holding a sitting at Pampa on Monday, Mr.

Publication Date: 
14/12/2010
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Pampa, River Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Toilets, Sanitation, Pathanamthitta (D)
Habitat And Urbanisation

Heat on 13 mega projects for lack of green clearance'

Mumbai Pollution monitor serves showcause notices, each project built parking lots for extra FSI

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has issued show-cause notices to 13 real estate projects on the ground that they haven

Publication Date: 
02/12/2010
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Floor Space Index (FSI), Parking Policy, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Environment Act 1986, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mumbai
Water Pollution

Go green, dairy industry told

The dairy industry lets out a significant amount of effluents into the environment in the form of waste water generated during the production of milk products.

In an effort to create awareness to adopt

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Dairy Development, Wastewater Recycling, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Karnataka
Water Pollution

The mirage - A case study at Tiruppur

In the textile knitwear manufacturing city of Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, the ZLD project in their CETPs was propelled by a judicial directive and launched with great expectations way back in 2005.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
S. Sundaramoorthy, S. Saktheeswaran
Water Today
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Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, High Court, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Water Polluting Industries, Industrial Pollution, Textile Industry, Water Pollution
Air Pollution

Development of empirical model for assessment of air pollution load in sponge iron industries

No extensive study has been made in the context of Indian Iron and Steel Industries attempting to measure the intensity of industrial pollution in the field of environmental management and to identify the different environmental indicators for making the units proactive.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
Indranil Sadhukhan, Sarbani Mitra, K. M. Agrawal & et al
Indian Journal of Environmental Protection
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Tags:
Air Pollution, Iron And Steel Industry, Industrial Pollution, India, West Bengal, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Environment

Response of the Centre for Science and Environment to the discussion paper on Establishment of National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA)

Multiplicity of regulatory authorities has not been carefully considered by the government while proposing to set up the National Environment Assessment and Monitoring Authority (NEAMA).

Publication Date: 
30/11/2010
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment, Coastal Regulations, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Governance, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Industry, NGO, India
Solid Waste

Comunidade member offers land for waste treatment in Santa Cruz

Having failed in several attempts in the past to identify suitable land for waste treatment in Santa Cruz village, the panchayat authorities saw a slim glimmer of hope as Calapur Comunidade attorney Mariano Araujo offered to provide Comunidade land for the purpose, provided the other committee members also accept the proposal.
The offer was made at the Sunday gram sabha, which discussed the trick

Publication Date: 
29/11/2010
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Waste Treatment, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Goa

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