The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
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Bhopal waste to be disposed of at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh
Following strong protests by the Maharashtra government, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has directed that hazardous waste at Bhopal's Union Carbide chemical plant, now owned by Dow Chemicals, will be incinerated at a facility at Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh. Replying to a calling attention motion in the Assembly on Monday, Maharashtra Environment Minister Sanjay Devtale said the State government had opposed the burning of waste at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) facility near Nagpur.
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Union Budget may not check diesel subsidy misuse
NEW DELHI: The union budget has failed to take steps to stop the misuse of diesel subsidy by private cars, said advocacy organisation Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Saturday. Calling the budget
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11 illegal textile processing units in Erode demolished
A team of officials from Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) demolished 11 unauthorised textile processing units in Erode town and its suburbs on Tuesday. The units were found functioning in Rasampalayam, SSP Nagar, and Kongampalayam and dumping huge amount of untreated, toxic effluents in the water sources.
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Shoving Kooduthirai's waste into the Cauvery
“It appears that the municipality has joined hands with textile processing and tannery industries, which have been causing irreversible damage to the environment by dumping untreated, toxic effluents, many residents in the town say. The farmers have been fighting for years to protect River Cauvery and its tributaries from the textile processing and the tannery units.
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Mumbai Holi colour poisoning kills boy, lands over 200 in hospital
MUMBAI: Holi revelry took on a nightmarish hue in parts of the city on Thursday as "colour poisoning" caused the death of a child and led to the hospitalization of scores of others. About 195 people were
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Toxic Holi in Dharavi as 160 take ill
Over 160 people from Dharavi, many of them children, were hospitalised on Thursday as they took ill after playing Holi allegedly with toxic colours. While some children fainted or felt giddy, others went blue as the contaminated colours were ingested, witnesses and doctors said. Four children and one adult are serious and in the ICU of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital in Sion. The incident was reported around 1.30 pm when a bunch of boys fainted in a lane near Dharavi. Soon, many more cases started getting reported around Dharavi and Sion.
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SAVE for law to keep vulture killer at bay
Act now or it will be never! Three species of south Asia’s vultures are critically threatened with extinction in the near future. Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE), a group of international
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High level of Uranium in Nalgonda
With Lambapur-Peddagattu uranium mines in Nalgonda district next in line for excavation, nuclear physicists from Osmania University, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology
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Johnson Controls' Shanghai plant ordered to shut on pollution
A China battery unit of Johnson Controls was ordered to halt production by the government after the plant was linked to incidents of lead contamination in Shanghai that had sickened some children. Shanghai
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Axe falls on illegal textile processing units
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has demolished a total of 11 textile processing units operated illegally in different parts of the Erode block during the last seven days. The board, along with the Revenue Department, re-launched the drive against the polluting textile processing and tannery units in the district following widespread complaints from the farmers and residents on the increasing levels of pollution in water sources.