Ahmedabad:Around one lakh litres of diesel spilled off Mundra coast in Kutch district of Gujarat from the oil jetty of a private port on Tuesday, when a consignment of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) was being off-loaded from a ship.

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) issued a stop-work order to Indiabulls Real Estate for starting construction work on its Elphinstone Mills property at Lower Parel without environment clearance.

The notice, signed by board member secretary R Mopalwaar on June 17 directed Indiabulls to stop work "which was started in violation of the consent to establish granted to you and

During the past four years, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) has taken several steps in order to ensure the compliance of the pollution norms by the industries and urban local bodies of the state.

While stating this before relinquishing his charge as PPCB chairman on June 16, Rajat Agarwal, in an interview with The Tribune, spoke at length about the functioning of the PPCB.

KOLKATA, 16 JUNE: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has got permission from the Pollution Control Board for sanitary land filling in the Ramsar area, member, mayor-in-council (Solid Waste Management), Mr Debabrata Majumder, said today.
Mr Majumder said around 52 hectare has been earmarked for setting up the second Dhapa dumping ground in the Ramsar area but the KMC will only use 17.75 hectare of

The Shibpur botanical garden authorities have found enough plastic waste on the premises

PANJIM: While Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) is desperate to submit its proposal to set up waste treatment plant in Baiguinim to the government, it is been unable to move forward since the project has not received technical sanction.
PWD has returned the project claiming it has no technical expertise, as told by Mayor Yatin Parekh.

Since the garbage crises last month, CCP has

A survey by the Central Pollution Control Board has labelled Mumbai as the world

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.