Gurgaon: A district-level committee constituted for checking illegal mining in Gurgaon district has submitted a report which says that no illegal mining activities are going on in the Aravali range in the district.

New Delhi: The controversy over the allegedly contaminated US ship took a new twist on Wednesday with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board giving it a clean chit, but the Union environment ministry rejecting it has decided to send its own team to the state for investigation.

After Outcry, Env Ministry Orders Probe
Nitin Sethi | TNN

New Delhi: The shipbreaking yards of Alang have once again been hit by controversy with the anchoring of an allegedly contaminated ship from the US.

The pollution control board has cracked down on three multinational companies. Three Phase-2-based companies have been served with notices for not putting in place scrubber systems. The notices have been sent on the receipt of complaints from the district administration, it is learnt.

Industrialists feel that the power crisis might demolish the industrial structure in the state. If things don

Continuing the process of disconnecting power supply to dyeing factories for failure to adhere to the norms for effluent discharge, the PSEB authorities today snapped power supply to five more units on the instructions of the Punjab Pollution Control Board. With this, the total number of dyeing units, which have faced disconnection of power, has gone up to 15 in the city during past three days.

Believe it or not, Goa has 226 stone crushing units as identified by the Department of Industries, Trade and Commerce whose operations could be a hazard to the State's environment. Almost three years after the Saleli incident, the issue on stone crushing units continue to haunt the State and has even knocked the doors of the High Court in Goa. The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) which has come under heavy fire after Saleli is presently investigating all operations of stone crushing units and is likely to submit a report to the High Court next week.

: Ignoring the state finance minister's suggestion to increase state forest coverage to 33 per cent from the existing 27 per cent earlier this month, a CPI-M-run Bural gram panchayat in Sabang block in Midnapore West has aimed to increase their revenue by felling trees reared by a group of tree-huggers. Mr Asim Dasgupta, the state finance minister, had made this suggestion while discussing the environmental impact of degrading trees at a function in Kolkata.

The allocation for SWM between 2002 and 2007 was Rs.48.85 crore; but expenditure only Rs.13.8 crore The Chennai Corporation has a long history of making promises for improved solid waste management practices (SWM), which are rarely fulfilled (see infographic ). The local body's budget allocation for SWM between 2002 and 2007 has been Rs.48.85 crore and actual expenditure for the period is about Rs.13.8 crore