West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jharkhand account for high level of hazardous pollutants emitted by their respective thermal power generating plants.

JAIPUR: About 20 big private companies functioning in the power sector have evinced interest in a new project for establishment of a lignite-based thermal power station at Gudha village in Bikaner district of Rajasthan. This will be the first power project in the private sector in the State under the Centre

Mumbai About 2,000 people from 25 agricultural and fishing villages gathered at Poynad Village on Alibaug-Dharamtar Road, about 113 km from Mumbai, on Thursday to protest against a proposed coal-fired thermal power plant.

Chairperson of expert committee on hydro-power projects resigns the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) will change members or heads of expert committees if any conflict of interest is perceived in clearing projects, said union minister Jairam Ramesh. Ramesh said two of the eight expert panels would be reconstituted soon. The two panels clear mining and thermal power

FARMERS from the Mettur area are planning to meet Chemplast Sanmar shareholders at the company's annual general meeting on Tuesday, to sensitise and warn them about the unaccounted social costs due to the company's alleged legal and environmental violations.

Combating global warming is one of several topics being discussed at high-level meetings this week between US and Chinese government officials.

Progress between the world's two largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would boost an international summit set for December in Copenhagen that aims to craft new global goals on controlling climate change.

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