A key environmental panel has recommended clearance for the proposed Rs. 23,502-crore nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district of Haryana. Environment Minister Veerappa Moily, who took charge recently, will now have to take the final decision on whether to permit the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organised a Stakeholder Workshop on Air quality and transportation challenges in Kathmandu on December 27 in collaboration with Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Government of Nepal.
Letter to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding environmental clearance of Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojna (Formerly, Haryana Atomic Power Project (4X700 MWe) at Village Gorakhpur, District Fatehabad, Haryana by M/s Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 31 of the Punjab Environmental Protection Act, 1997 (XXXIV of 1997), Governor of the Punjab is pleased to make the following Rules: These Rules may be cited as the Punjab Environmental Protection (Motor Vehicles) Rules 2013.
Department of Census and Statistics conducts Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) once in every five years. This survey provides information on Household Income and Expenditure to measure the levels and changes in living conditions of the people.
Veerappa Moily, the Union environment minister eases environmental clearance norms and exempts select industries & mining projects from either providing environmental impact assessment reports or holding public hearings when they are approved by the state government.
This fifth all-India survey of NSSO on urban slums in the country consists of information relating to July to December 2012 on key characteristics of slums such as number of slums, approximate number of households living in the slums, proportion of slums without electricity, etc.
59.4 per cent and 8.8 per cent households in rural India and urban India, respectively, had no latrine facilities, says this 69th round NSSO survey report on drinking water, sanitation, hygiene and housing condition in India
This new study by WWF-India and TERI examines the possibility of a near 100% Renewable Energy Scenario (REN) for India by the middle of the century against a reference scenario in which the economy is likely to be dependent primarily on fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas.
Cities are choking because of their own construction and demolition (C&D) waste with serious environmental consequences warned the sustainable building experts at the conference organised by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) & Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA).
