Reviving NCR’s air: CAQM submits action plan to NGT, mostly in line with CSE recommendations

The action plan incorporates the updating of emission inventories and source apportionment studies across the entire NCR

Ban toxic imports: court

Supreme Court wants hazardous waste rules aligned with Basel Convention

MoEF drags feet over law for safe disposal of CFLs

Reasons for prolonged delay unknown

Clean energy fund to be used for cleaning 12 toxic dump sites

States asked to bear 60 per cent cost

Weak rules, weaker regulators

Factories flout emission standards at will

Home truths

What's happening inside disposal units?

More cities critically polluted

Tighter norms make air we breathe more poisonous

Unchecked tyre recycling units wreak environmental havoc

Only 46% of tyre pyrolysis oil units in the country comply with norms

As told to Parliament (July 22, 2021): All Indian villages open-defecation free

All that was discussed in the Houses through the day

CPCB issues draft guideline for cement sector to reduce fugitive emissions

Vapi tops list of critically polluted areas

Environmentalists call for re-imposing moratorium on industrial town in Gujarat

Industry sets the rules to dispose of CFLs safely

Proposes pilot project for collecting, recycling CFLs in three cities

Nagpur bench stays transfer of Bhopal's toxic waste

Will it impact the ongoing case in the Madhya Pradesh High Court?

Water pollution hot spots identified in Indian rivers

Data is misleading and underestimates pollution, allege scientists

Liability sans facility

Draft rules ask health centres to ensure their waste is treated  

Industry emissions data incomplete, inaccessible on Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh websites: CPCB

CEMS certification system needed to improve data quality, says board

Burning problem

Safdarjung Hospital's incinerator spells trouble for those living in its vicinity

Don't give up the fight

‘Cleaner fuel the way ahead’: NGT limits brick kiln operations in Delhi-NCR

The order, however, stated implementation concerns 

Crises plaguing state pollution control boards

Employees barely gain technical expertise in the working of SPCBs

Guidelines on idol immersions

CPCB says only natural materials as specified in ancient scriptures should be used

Mind the mercury

Why no one is checking how mercury-laden CFLs are handled and discarded

Junking plastic

Proposal to clamp down on plastic carrybags and wrappers in Tamil Nadu

Stubble fire counts up, Delhi air quality slips to ‘severe’

Stubble burning share of PM2.5 estimated around 42% on November 4 from 5% a day earlier