ROURKELA: Development works have brought along heavy pollution in the ever expanding Rourkela city.

Currently, three major road widening projects are being carried out in the Steel City at a snail

NEW DELHI: Trying to put an end to the ongoing blame game between Delhi and Haryana over who pollutes the Yamuna waters, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has offered to chair a meeting between the two States to help them iron out differences.

Pointing out that Haryana has blamed the untreated effluents from Delhi making their way into the river for the unabated

AHMEDABAD: Before you buy your dream home in a posh residential scheme make sure that your builder has an environment clearance certificate. At least nine major developers in the city have been hauled up by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) for not taking the mandatory clearance from them.

The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the six-member committee headed by Justice N K Patil, the Chairman of High Court Legal Service Authority, to submit its report by February 28, 2011.

The Authority had been earlier told to chalk out a plan for preservation of lakes in the City.
The commissioners of Bangalore Development Authority and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, secretaries of

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Monday declined to alter its order directing closure of all dyeing and bleaching units in the hosiery town of Tirupur for causing pollution despite its earlier directives.

When Tamil Nadu pollution control board and Tirupur dyeing factory owners association made oral submissions seeking alteration of the January 28 order, a bench comprising CJ M Y Eqbal and

INDIA will be unveiling its own cap and trade mechanism to deal with air pollution on February 1. The proposed market-based mechanism seeks to introduce a system of self-regulation among industrial units by putting a price on emission of pollutants. A price for emissions, makes it costly to pollute, therefore incentivising polluters to reduce emissions.

Unlike the cannot-be-allowed stand of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on the copper smelting unit of Sterlite Industries at Tuticorin, the Central Pollution Control Board seems to take a different view.

During a hearing on the issue in the Supreme Court today, the report of the CPCB on the issue was not made public but given to the judges during the proceedings.

Since marine pollution is a major environmental hazard for the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, which have fishing as a major source of livelihood, Indian Coast Guard personnel are monitoring the threat of pollution at sea covering the exclusive economic zone along Gulf of Mannar and adjoining coastal districts, according to Commandant Udhal Singh, Commanding Officer, Indian Coast Guard, Tuticorin

The Mapusa Municipal Council has been directed by the Goa State Pollution Control Board to stop dumping of unsegregated waste on the Assagao plateau and to prevent such acts put up fencing around the site.