First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Steel Plants in WB Flouting Environmental Norms: CSE
Steel plants in West Bengal are blatantly "flouting environmental norms" by polluting land, water and air, according to a green rating survey. New Delhi-based research body Centre for Science and Environment
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Iron units yet to act on govt’s offer of CBM
The state government had offered lucrative packages to sponge iron units to switch to coal-bed methane (CBM) as an alternate fuel, but none of the units came up with a proposal, rued state environment
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Pollution lapse finger at sponge iron units
Environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar today said sponge iron factories in the state had not responded to the government’s offer to undertake modernised projects for combating pollution. The
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Indian Climate Research Network to host conference on climate change
The Indian Climate Research Network (ICRN) which is a consortium of organizations like Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), Indian Institute of Technology
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Water wealth: a briefing paper on the state of groundwater management in Bangladesh
Urban Bangladesh faces a huge water crisis. Groundwater tables are falling rapidly, centuries-old urban water bodies have disappeared or severely polluted and urban floods are a regular occurrence in the
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CSE responds to United States OPIC and Exim Bank – on the use of climate finance to kill the Indian solar panel industry
The United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and the US Exim Bank have evaded any response to the central contention of the recent release from Centre for Science and Environment (http://www.cseindia.org/content/us-using-climate-finance-kill-indian-sol...
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German company moves forward
The proposal of German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to dispose of the 350 tonnes of toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has finally
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SC wants report on ground water contamination around Union Carbide plant in a month
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday was irked by the blame game between Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), which was tasked to test ground
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Green nods delayed due to unused clearances: MoEF
New Delhi The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has defended its position on the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) report citing delayed green nods that has hindered coal production. The ministry said it gave clearances in excess of what was required and projects are pending as these clearances are still unultilised. The ministry claims to have given clearances worth 2.71 lakh MW of power capacity of which only 55,000 MW have been used till now. Further, it claims to have cleared 800 mt of coal against current demand of 436 mt. The ministry also said that most of the projects didn't furnish information related to coal linkages, acreage and sulphur content which delayed the green nods.
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Powerless and lost
So, why the power crisis? Reasons are deeply systemic & extremely worrying. There is no doubt that supply is constrained The power outage in northern India on two days should not be dismissed or misjudged. Analysts are jumping to the conclusion that the crisis was foretold. They blame delays caused by environment and forest clearance procedures and demand the winding-down of the regulatory framework, so that we can re-energise ourselves. Their other favourite whipping horse is “free” electricity to farmers, which is said to be crippling the state electricity boards. These explanations are naïve and mistaken. India’s power sector does need urgent reform, but first we need to know what to fix.