India

 PLEA REJECTED

The SC declined to entertain two related special leave petitions (SLPs) against an interim order of the Madras High Court which directed that the copper smelting plant of the Sterlite Industries

Publication Date: 
30/03/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Copper Industry, Tamil Nadu
India

 Chimney smoking

Amount of six pollutants produced from 21 industrial sectors in India ...

Publication Date: 
30/01/1999
Down to Earth
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Tamil Nadu
India

 Forest officials suspended

THREE members of the Tamil Nadu forest department were suspended for mass felling of trees, including teak, in the Vallam forest belt of the Courtallam range, Tamil Nadu. According to Manoj

Publication Date: 
30/12/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Personnel, Deforestation, Tamil Nadu
Environment

 Prodigal sons

Industry is wasting the environment. But the courts and the civil society will have none of it

Publication Date: 
29/11/1998
Down to Earth
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19981130
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Tags:
Pollution Control, River Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Textile Industry, Industrial Waste Treatment, High Court, India, Tamil Nadu, Tiruppur
Climate Change

 Waterworks India

India's genius in catching rainwater lies in thousands of its invisible rural engineers who are today being edged out by the modern onslaught. In order to understand their pride and their plight, researchers of the Centre for Science and Environment CSE

Publication Date: 
14/10/1998
Down to Earth
7
19981015
0
Tags:
Water Management, Rural Habitat, Tamil Nadu, Chennai (D)
Water Pollution

 IN FAVOUR OF QUACKS

The Madras High Court has allowed unqualified medical practitioners in Tamil Nadu to practice modern medicine with certain conditions. They have also been allowed to add the suffix

Publication Date: 
30/07/1998
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Tags:
Health Care, Health Personnel, Legislation, Tamil Nadu
Pesticides And Toxins

Accumulation Features of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Organochlorine Pesticide in Resident and Migratory Birds from South India

Persistent organochlorines such as DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), chlordane compounds (CHLs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in whole-body homogenates of resident and migratory birds collected from South India. Organochlorine contamination pattern in birds varied depending on their migratory behaviour.

Publication Date: 
01/05/1998
S. Tanabe, K. Senthilkumar, K. Kannan & et al
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
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Tags:
DDT, PCBs, Pesticides And Toxins, Residue Testing, Birds, Migratory Species, India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukkottai (D), Cuddalore
India

 Firm action

The Madras High Court has ordered that 100 dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur be closed if they fail to make any progress in commissioning effluent treatment facilities by May 12, 1998. These

Publication Date: 
29/04/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Paint And Dye Industry, Legislation, Tamil Nadu
Climate Change

 Wealth in waste

Researchers at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, have developed a fuel-efficient bio-mass gas stove. The bio-gas could be produced from animal and crop wastes, and used for

Publication Date: 
14/02/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Crop Residues, Biomass Gasification, Fuel Cell, Rural Technology, Tamil Nadu
India

 INDIA

Over 350 people have been killed in torrential rains in the current monsoon season across the country. Several regions in the northern region came to a standstill due to heavy downpour. Gujarat bore

Publication Date: 
30/08/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Legislation, Tamil Nadu

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