VELLORE: Vellore Collector C. Rajendran has asked tanneries in Vellore district to strictly follow the safety protocol stipulated by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) while engaging its workers to clean effluent tanks on their premises.

CHENNAI: The State Environmental Appraisal Committee has recommended conditional environmental clearance to the Chennai Corporation's proposal to set up a solid waste processing facility at the Perungudi garbage dump yard, according to sources in the civic body.

The Corporation has also applied to Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for pollution clearance for the project.

Paul John | TNN

Ahmedabad: For 15 long years, Gujarat Pollution Control Board sat over hundreds of environmental audit reports prepared by industries. It deliberately chose not to scrutinise them or take action against erring units which lied in these reports about their pollution control measures.

NPCB conducts workshop to create awareness

KOHIMA, May 10: A workshop on Bio-medical Waste Management was held at Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB), Conference Hall, Signal Point Dimapur to sensitize the hazards of bio-medical waste.

The nearby National Fertilizers Limited might have released its effluents into the river

Nangal: Industrial wastes being dumped into the Sutlej have once again claimed aquatic life over an area of 10-12 km here.

Dasuya (Hoshiarpur) : An industrial unit located on the Chandigarh-Hoshiarpur-Jammu highway in Randhawa village, near here, has been openly polluting the environment for the past many years.Owned by a known liquor baron of the region, Chadha Estate is not only causing air pollution but the underground water has also been polluted to a great extent.

May 6: Several environmentalists and leaders of opposition parties strongly opposed the setting up of a carbon black manufacturing unit and 150 mw captive power plant being developed by the Continental Carbon India Private Ltd at the public hearing organised by the AP Pollution Control Board (PCB) in the special economic zone (SEZ) in Pudi village in the district on Thursday.

Extraction of gold, silver and platinum will now become more lucrative

The CIDCO on Wednesday said the construction of the proposed Navi Mumbai airport would not affect the environmental balance of the region.

Before starting the construction of the airport, the route of river Ulve will have to be altered by 90

Order of assessment from West Bengal Pollution Control Board to SAIL, Durgapur Steel Plant dated 06.05.2010.

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