What insurance can the world afford to prevent repeating the catastrophic temperature increase of the past? A package of fast mitigation measures is recommended by Nobel Laureate Mario Molina and colleagues Durwood Zaelke, K. Madhava Sarma, Stephen O. Andersen, V. Ramanathan, and Donald Kaniaru.
Bombay High Court order on Writ Petition No. 97 2011 with Writ Petition No. 98 2011 on sand mining. The court has directed the Maharashtra government not to award any contract for sand mining or allow further excavation until and unless the agency concerned obtains an environmental clearance.
The report of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) submitted to Supreme Court, recommending the cancellation of mining leases belonging to Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), owned by Reddy brothers of Bellary.
After a eighteen-month long process, the CRZ Notification, 2011 is being formally notified and published. This replaces the CRZ Notification, 1991. This notification reconcile three objectives: protection of livelihoods of traditional fisherfolk communities; preservation of coastal ecology; and promotion of economic activity that have necessarily to be located in coastal regions.
For the very first time an Island Protection Zone Notification, 2011 is being notified and published covering Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep. This notification reconcile three objectives: protection of livelihoods of traditional fisherfolk communities; preservation of coastal ecology; and promotion of economic activity that have necessarily to be located in coastal regions.
According to this independent scientific study by Lou Gallagher, the safety claims made for Bt brinjal, are not supported by existing data and says that its consumption could result in adverse health effects.
CSE comments on CPCB's recently released Study of Exhaust Gases from Different Fuel-based Vehicles for Carbonyls and Methane Emissions. Urges CPCB to recall and urgently review this study to make it more scientifically tenable.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama on January 4th, 2011. It aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus of federal regulators from responding to contamination to preventing it. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘FDA Food Safety Modernization Act’
