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Pollution free Hyderabad: Telangana government to shift 1,500 industries

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 27, 2016

To encourage industries located in the city to move outside the Outer Ring Road limits, the Telangana state government is willing to allow real estate development, construction of commercial...

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Subject Tags: industry news , pollution

India Strives to Improve Efficiency of Ports

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 27, 2016

The Average Turnaround Time has registered a significant improvement in 2015-16 and was 3.63 days as against 4.00 days in the corresponding preceding year. This has further improved to 3.49 days...

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China to levy new taxes in bid to strengthen fight against pollution

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 26, 2016

China's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first time from 2018, as part of a renewed focus on...

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Rice stubble based Rs 2500 crore projects to yield cleaner fuel, check pollution in North India

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 23, 2016

Rice stubble, a cause of air pollution due to open field burning, is set to catalyze investment of Rs 2400 crore in a string of biomass based energy projects and ethanol manufacturing facilities...

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Subject Tags: industry news , pollution

Scientists devise way to collect leftover paddy straw

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2016

Burning of agriculture waste and paddy straw is one of the main reasons behind rising levels of pollution. To resolve this issue, scientists in Chhattisgarh have devised a way to collect...

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Dispose off your solid waste according to rules or pay Rs 10,000 fine: NGT

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 20, 2016

The National Green Tribunal on Monday directed that anybody who was caught disposing of garbage in a public space would be slapped with a fine of Rs 10,000. The tribunal further directed that...

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Govt asks pollution watchdogs to get their instruments calibrated to maintain accuracy

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 20, 2016

Admitting that most of the pollution measuring and biomedical equipment are "not calibrated as per standards in the country which affects quality of the measured data", the Centre has asked...

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Unit faces power disconnection for violating pollution norms

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 20, 2016

A corrugated boxes manufacturing unit, Sylvan Greens, located at Kulhariwala village in the Barotiwala industrial area is violating the pollution control norms by openly spilling its untreated...

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Subject Tags: industry news , pollution

RasGas supports India’s shift to clean energy with focus on LNG

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 15, 2016

RasGas has extended its support to India’s transformation into a land powered by clean, reliable, gas-based energy, as part of efforts to strengthen the economic and energy relationships with...

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Delhi Pollution Control Committee to explain how Okhla plant got okayed

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 9, 2016

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday summoned Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) officials, who had given a "consent to operate" certificate to the Okhla waste-to-energy plant in...

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