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India generated around 33,000 tonnes of COVID-19 biomedical waste in the last seven months, with Maharashtra contributing the maximum (3,587 tonnes) to it, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. Over 5,500 tonnes of COVID-19 waste was generated across the country in October -- the maximum for a month so far. According to the data received from state pollution control boards, since June 2020, all states and union territories have generated 32,994 tonnes of COVID-19-related ...

Updated: Share Article AAA Green audit, certification, and grading in government offices in the district will get under way on Monday. Mayor Arya Rajendran will inaugurate the green audit in government offices at the Panchayat Directorate in the Public Office on Monday. District panchayat president D. Suresh Kumar will inaugurate the green audit for local self-government institutions at Athiyannoor block panchayat on Tuesday. The Haritha Kerala Mission and the Suchitwa Mission together are s...

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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas ("Commission") which was constituted recently vide The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Ordinance, 2020 passed on 28 October 2020 has directed that all industrial units in Delhi switch over to Piped Natural Gas ("PNG") by the end of next month. This is one of the first prom...

Finally, a win for villagers 3 Editorial Bangkok Post editorial column published : 26 Dec 2020 at 04:00 3 After years of fighting for environmental justice, the efforts of Ratchaburi villagers who suffered contamination from a waste recycling firm have finally paid off. The Civil Court on Thursday handed down a landmark verdict in their favour, ordering the firm to pay millions of baht in compensation. Wax Garbage Recycle Center Company, which operates recycling and waste dis...

Can India be globally competitive – API manufacturing hub – Challenges & opportunities December 21, 2020, 11:04 PM IST Dr Gurpreet Sandhu is President at Council for Healthcare & Pharma (CHP). For a country hailed as the pharmacy of the world, the recent revelations on vulnerabilities and dependence for critical drug inputs vis-à-vis China has been a rude yet timely reminder. Even as authorities scramble to negotiate the ongoing pandemic, the gover...

8th International Conference on Pollution Control & Sustainable with the theme “Accelerating Innovations for Environmental Sustainability”

Schools stay open despite air hazard 8 BMA to minimise risks of PM2.5 published : 18 Dec 2020 at 06:00 8 People wear face masks while exercising in Lumpini Park in Bangkok which saw dust particles exceeding the safe level on Thursday. (Photo by Pornprom Satrabhaya) The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) insisted there was no need to shut its 437 schools in the city, while hazardous PM2.5 ultra-fine dust particles exceeded the safe l...

Popular tourist activity was closed since March following COVID outbreak  Kushalnagar: River rafting, a popular activity among tourists coming to Dubare near Kushalnagar in Kodagu, has resumed after a long break. This comes in the wake of Deputy Commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy permitting operators to resume rafting after stringently following COVID precautions.  The activity began on Dec. 12 with six boats that are carrying six persons each and a guide into the river. These six boats have be...

Darville: NGOs blindsided by oil drilling approval Joseph Darville. In a lengthy affidavit in support of a bid by environmental interests to stop the Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) exploratory drilling set to take place 90 miles off Andros this month, Executive Chairman of the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay Joseph Darville paints a picture of stakeholders being kept in the dark as the government quietly granted approvals to BPL. A key ground of the legal action filed this week by Wa...