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First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 2 reports

Transportation department asks Cebu City to submit project brief

THE Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) has asked the Cebu City Government to submit a project brief on the establishment of bike lanes in the city.This will be used for possible funding for the project’s feasibility study.In a letter ... [Published Sun Star Network - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Transportation, Juan Luna, Pollution Control

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Trash Talk

What do Cordell Samuels, current Water Environment Federation president, and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have in common?They both believe humanity should embrace waste.In the 2008 film Examined Life (see clip below), Žižek tours a landfill while ... [Published Water Canada - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Slavoj Žižek, Wastewater, Wastewater Treatment, Milorganite, InSinkerator

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Service Merchandise

From the files May 24, 2013

12:00 pm 0 commentsBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Progressive leadership in this sprawling steel city’s racial troubles has been pledged by a new government which also must grapple with serious economic problems. Mayor Albert Boutwell and nine councilmen, confirmed ... [Published Keene Sentinel - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Albert Boutwell, Pesticide, Service Merchandise

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Xi pledges to safeguard the environment

China will never pursue temporary economic growth at the expense of environmental degradation, President Xi Jinping vowed on Friday."Those who made rash decisions regardless of the ecological environment, resulting in serious consequences, must be brought ... [Published CHINAdaily - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Environment, Pollution, Civilization, Pollution Prevention

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

State Govt. goes in for record Recrui...

The Kiran Kumar Reddy Government achieved a record in creating government jobs. As per his assurance, the Chief Minister approved massive creation of new posts and filling of vacancies in various departments.As per the CMâs directions, transparent and ... [Published Siasat Daily - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Kiran Kumar Reddy, Education, Pollution Control

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Goa pollution board to check ore laden jetties ahead of monsoon

PTI reported that Goa State Pollution Control Board has decided to order inspection of all the 28 jetties along riversides, where the ore is stacked, to ensure that the ore does not run down into the river and pollute it. The ore was held back from being ... [Published Steel Guru - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Pollution, Iron Ore, Supreme Court, Goa Government, Pollution Control

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

HC dismisses petition on alignment of GMR project

SHIMLA: has dismissed a petition challenging the shifting of project alignment of GMR in Bharmaur town of Chamba district from right to left bank of Ravi river.Dismissing the petition, a division bench comprising Chief Justice A M Khanvilkar and Justice ... [Published Economic Times - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Dismissal, Petitioner, Vinod Kumar Singh, Shimla (India), Pollution Control

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

‘India sits on a mound of 8,00,000 tonnes of e-waste’

India today sits on a huge mound of 8,00,000 tonnes of e-waste generated annually, adding a new dimension to the already difficult scenario of solid waste management.Speakers at a seminar on “Management and handling of e-waste”, organised by the Civil ... [Published New Delhi Pioneer - May 24 2013]

Entities: SOA, India, Pollution Control

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

TREATMENT PLANT WINS STATE AWARD

Last week the Jamestown Wastewater Treatment Facility received the “Most Efficient Small Secondary Treatment Facility” awards for performance in 2012 from the Narragansett Water Pollution Control Association. Doug Ouellette, plant superintendent, received ... [Published Jamestown Press - May 23 2013]

Entities: Water Pollution, A. Ralph Mollis, Pollution Control

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Government intervenes

With the Tiruchirapalli City Corporation sitting over the problem for years together, the State government appears to be stepping in. A team of experts from Chennai is likely to inspect the Ariyamangalam garbage dump, possibly on Thursday, to explore ... [Published The Hindu - May 23 2013]

Entities: Emission, Ambient Air, Pollution Control, Chennai, Toxic

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Top hospitals flout waste disposal rules

New Delhi: The national green tribunal has found that a "majority of the hospitals in the National Capital Territory are not complying with biomedical waste handling rules and are thus posing a very serious hazard threat to human health and environment". ... [Published Times of India - May 23 2013]

Entities: Ganga Ram, Pollution Control, Hindu Rao, New Delhi (India)

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

5/23/2013: Metro: Hospitals in NCR cities fare no better

Much like their cousins in Delhi, hospitals in Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad have also been found flouting biomedical waste disposal rules with impunity. The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, which covers Noida and Gurgaon, inspected a large... ... [Published Hindustan Times - May 23 2013]

Entities: Noida, Pollution Control, Ghaziabad

Quotes

His kinsman Raghuvir Narti said: "This is for our future generations. We have decided not to vote for any party that brings the plant and to support the party that stops the plant. If no party supports us, we will ensure poll boycott in 54 villages in the block during the Assembly elections."

Gonds rally round fellow tribals protesting Chutka nuclear plant [Published The Hindu - 8 hours ago]

"He highlighted the most important issues in promoting ecological civilization, explicitly asked that ideas on prevention and thrift should come first, and concluded that all requirements should be guarded by laws and systems."

Xi pledges to safeguard the environment [Published CHINAdaily - 10 hours ago]

...New posts created during this period by the Kiran Kumar Reddy Government was 83,631. The vacancies filled during 1998- "99 to 2003-04 was 1, 65,943 while it was only 1,46,380 during the period from 2004-" 05 to 2008-'09 and from 2010 till date is a record 1,23,897

State Govt. goes in for record Recrui... [Published Siasat Daily - 12 hours ago]

A GMB spokesperson said, "Very quickly we will submit an undertaking to the GPCB stating our commitment to mechanize the port and install water sprinklers to curb air pollution.”"

Over 7 lakh mt of imported coal stuck on port [Published Trans Reporter - 17 hours ago]

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Trash Talk [Published Water Canada - 5 hours ago]
Gonds rally round fellow tribals protesting Chu... [Published The Hindu - 8 hours ago]
Transportation department asks Cebu City to sub... [Published Sun Star Network - 8 hours ago]
Cebu City taps DOTCs help [Published Cebu Daily News - 9 hours ago]
From the files May 24, 2013 [Published Keene Sentinel - 10 hours ago]
Xi pledges to safeguard the environment [Published CHINAdaily - 10 hours ago]
State Govt. goes in for record Recrui... [Published Siasat Daily - 12 hours ago]
Goa pollution board to check ore laden jetties ... [Published Steel Guru - 14 hours ago]
Over 7 lakh mt of imported coal stuck on port [Published Trans Reporter - 17 hours ago]
Waste to energy conversion technology [Published Research and Markets - 18 hours ago]
Studies: Endocrine disruptors, cocaine common i... [Published Marshfield News Herald - 18 hours ago]
HC dismisses petition on alignment of GMR project [Published Economic Times - 19 hours ago]
Terratec awarded Brighton, Ont. Lagoon Clean-Ou... [Published Daily Commercial News - 21 hours ago]
Duluth's trash under scrutiny [Published Duluth News Tribune - 21 hours ago]
New National Contaminated Land Assessment Guide... [Published Herbert Smith LLP - May 24 2013]
‘India sits on a mound of 8,00,000 tonnes of e-... [Published New Delhi Pioneer - May 24 2013]
5/24/2013: METRO: UPEA SEEKS JUDICIAL INQUIRY I... [Published Hindustan Times - May 24 2013]
Archer: County website design needs more 'sizzle' [Published Topeka Capital-Journal - May 23 2013]
Redmond’s Rain Garden Challenge [Published Sightline Daily - May 23 2013]
Govt yet to okay ban on plastic bags [Published Deccan Herald - May 23 2013]
Mayor has support in challenging initiatives [Published Spokane Journal of Business - May 23 2013]
Over seven lakh tonnes of imported coal stuck a... [Published Business Standard India - May 23 2013]
TREATMENT PLANT WINS STATE AWARD [Published Jamestown Press - May 23 2013]
House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcomm... [Published Zecco - May 23 2013]
American Water - Terratec Environmental Awarded... [Published Equities.com - May 23 2013]
BRIEF: Court to hear Sterlite copper smelter ca... [Published Individual.com - May 23 2013]
NGT assures Sterlite its plea will be decided b... [Published zeenews.com - May 23 2013]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implem... [Published Zecco - May 23 2013]
Carthage board approves clerk training, summer ... [Published Watertown Daily Times - May 23 2013]
Environmental interests see gains in legislativ... [Published Minnesota Public Radio - May 23 2013]

Blogs

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Assessment of the Impact of Waste-to-Energy Pla... [Published Panchabuta-Renewable Energy & Cleantech in India - Apr 30 2013] The Central Pollution Control Board has carried out the Technical Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) based Waste-To-Energy (WTE) plant at Okhla, Delhi. Such plants can release toxic gases in case necessary Air Pollution Control Devices (APCDs) ...
Assessment of the Impact of Waste-to-Energy Pla... [Published Panchabuta - Cleantech & Renewable Energy in India - Apr 30 2013] The Central Pollution Control Board has carried out the Technical Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) based Waste-To-Energy (WTE) plant at Okhla, Delhi. Such plants can release toxic gases in case necessary Air Pollution Control Devices (APCDs) ...
Enough black smoke: NRDC files suit to clean up... [Published Switchboard, from NRDC - Apr 18 2013] Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago If you can see pollution, then you sure as hell don’t want to be breathing it. That, in a nutshell, is the basis for the complaint filed today in federal court by NRDC and its coalition partners concerning ...
Underground explosion in Pickering sewage tunne... [Published National Post \| News » Posted Toronto - Apr 11 2013] One man has suffered severe burns and three others are injured following an explosion inside a tunnel at a Pickering sewer plant in Durham Region. The incident, which occurred shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, took place about 40 metres below ...
India Green News: Renewables Meet New Support a... [Published Switchboard, from NRDC - Mar 29 2013] Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York March 15-29, 2013 India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India Climate Change UK Keen on Ties with India to Tackle Climate ...

Press Releases

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Research and Markets: Application of Adsorbents... [Published Business Wire Environment News - May 01 2013]
Timberline Receives Draft Water Discharge Permi... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Apr 18 2013]
Midway Receives a Key Permit for Pan Gold Proje... [Published Business Wire Natural Resources News - Mar 26 2013]
Fitch Affirms Basin Electric Power Cooperative ... [Published Business Wire Professional Services News - Feb 13 2013]
SaviCorp Founder and CEO Receives Patent for In... [Published Auto & Transportation - Feb 12 2013]