THE Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Monday launched its centre for assessing real time air quality, a first-of-its-kind initiative in India, at its head office in Guindy here.

WHILE more than 600 families living behind a petrol filling station at Fourth f Block in Mogappair West f complained that gasoline (from the fuel outlet) had seeped into their wells and rendered water unfit for cont sumption, officials of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) strongly denied the allegation, saying leakage from t the storage tank was not possible.

A tragedy similar to Bhopal gas leak is in the making our own backyard -- Kodaikanal. A series of flawed policies in handling the mercury leak at the Hindustan Lever Limited's failure to p factory there nine years ago has denied justice to the people and resulted in f protect a sensitive ecosystem.

VELLORE: Collector C. Rajendran has directed officials of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) to immediately visit the places in the Ambur area where there were complaints of tanneries discharging untreated effluents into the Palar, and identify and close such tanneries.

He was presiding over a monthly agriculturists' grievance day meeting at the Collectorate here on Friday.

The Division Bench of Mr Mohit S Shah, Chief Justice and Mr Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta of Calcutta High Court today directed the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) to take people from other departments to monitor the checking of automobile pollution level during night hours.

Global warming will cast its calamitous effect on India too. The Himalayan glaciers would melt leading to massive flood in rivers, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board chairman A S Sadashivaiah has said.

LUCKNOW: The proposed land fill site near the famous mango belt in Malihabad-Kakori region for the solid waste management project in Lucknow is facing an intense scrutiny by the environment and the horticultural department.

Nature might have cleaned up the contaminated Colva creek of the sewage and other waste, but are the authorities geared up to ensure that no further sewage finds its way into the water body?
Well, ask the Colva Panchayat and the panchayat secretary says that the local body has issued notices on as many as 34 erring hotels and restaurants for discharging the waste in the drains and the creek.

Himanshu Bhatt | TNN

Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti, a voluntary organisation working for environmental protection, has come out with startling facts on how the badly treated industrial effluents are being dumped in the major rivers in the State and in the sea.

The rivers include the Narmada, Mahisagar, Sabamarti and Damanganga and the sea outlet is in the Gulf of Cambay.