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• Thai Rainwater no longer safe to drink

  
  PCT Thailand's Free Expatriates Blog — Authority: 147
  Rainwater no longer safe to drinkRainwater in Thailand is no longer safe for consumption, especially in the coastal provinces in the East, due to rising level of acidity caused by toxins from factories and traffic smog.Citing a study sponsored by the Department of Pollution Control, a Kasetsart University lecturer ...
  22 hours ago

• Michigan loses millions by paying companies to comply with enviro laws

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  General Motors is one of many companies in Michigan using state tax breaks to comply with environmental laws. (Creative Commons photo by Ahren D via Flickr) Some of Michigan’s largest polluting corporations are receiving millions in tax breaks for installing environmental control equipment that is required under ...
  5 days ago

• Michigan’s shadow budget: Tax breaks that cost billions

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  Part of the reason Michigan doesn’t have enough money to pay for public services like education , health care and environmental enforcement , is that the state is giving away billions in tax breaks (a projected $35.8 billion in 2009) for everything from NASCAR speedways, to church vehicles, to companies that ...
  6 days ago

• Chhattisgarh serves notice to polluting steel mills

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Raipur, Nov 2 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s Environment Conservation Board has served notices to four steel units on the outskirts of this state capital city for defying pollution control norms, a board official said Monday.The notices were served to the four units for not using electro-static precipitator (ESP) — an air ...
  1 week ago

• 11 dead as oil depot still burns, probe begins (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Jaipur, Nov 2 (IANS) Loud explosions were heard Monday as a devastating fire raged for the fifth day in Indian Oil’s depot near here. As the death toll rose to 11, a petroleum ministry committee began probing the cause of the destruction.The explosions took place at the depot as flames rose high from four of [...]
  1 week ago

• Indian Oil depot fire continues, toll 11

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Jaipur, Nov 2 (IANS) Loud explosions were heard Monday from the Indian Oil depot here that caught fire as the blaze continued to rage for the fourth consecutive day with the toll rising to 11 after one person succumbed to burn injuries.Flames leapt out from four of the 11 tankers containing petrol and diesel while ...
  1 week ago

• Jaipur oil depot fire rages on, toll 10 (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Jaipur, Nov 1 (IANS) Fire in an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot continued to burn for the third day running Sunday in this Rajasthan capital with the toll rising to 10 after recovery of two more bodies, officials said.The officials said they are waiting for the fuel in the tanks to burn out. “We are [...]
  1 week ago

• Indian Oil depot fire still on, death toll 10

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Jaipur, Nov 1 (IANS) Flames continued to leap from an Indian Oil depot in Jaipur Sunday, four days after it caught fire leaving 10 people killed and 150 others injured. Officials said the fire is likely to die out by the evening or Monday morning as most of the oil stored in the huge tanks [...]
  1 week ago

• China unveils its fastest supercomputer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, October 30 (ANI): China has unveiled its fastest supercomputer, which at its peak speed can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second, known as a petaflop.The birth of the supercomputer, named “Tianhe”, which means “Milky Way”, makes China the second country, after the United States, to ...
  1 week ago

• Chhattisgarh serves notice to 15 industries for pollution

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Raipur, Oct 28 (IANS) The Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board Wednesday served notices to 15 steel making units ion the state for defying pollution control norms.These small scale industries, located at Urla, Siltara and Borjhara industrial areas on the outskirts of Raipur, have not adopted pollution control ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mauritius And Indian Navy in Joint Anti-piracy Patrol

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The Mauritius National Coast Mauritius (MNCG) and two warships of the Indian Navy has set up a Joint Anti-Piracy Patrol (JAPP) to reinforce security in the Indian Ocean region. The release from the Mauritian government indicates that as the waters of Seychelles border the Northern Boundary of the Mauritius Maritime ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stinking urinals ahead of Games: court pulls up MCD

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) “What do you want to show to the world?” an exasperated Delhi High Court asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) while expressing displeasure over the state of public urinals in the capital ahead of the Commonwealth Games 2010.A division bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul ...
  2 weeks ago

• US firm to start pumping out oil from sunken ship

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Bhubaneswar, Oct 22 (IANS) The US firm, Resolve Marine Group, which has been given the work to pump out oil from the ship MV Black Rose that sank off the Paradip coast in Orissa, will start pumping out the oil from Friday, officials said Thursday.A team of experts from the Florida-based Resolve Marina Group reached ...
  2 weeks ago

• Central team completes inspection of toxic ship Platinum II

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Alang, Oct 21 (ANI): A three-member investigation team has completed inspection of the US ship Platinum II for toxic materials. The team led by SA Das, industrial advisor to steel Ministry, is set to submit its report to the Ministry of Environment and forests on October 23. The team, which included two members each ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Shouldnt Be in a Green Energy Portfolio

  
  Alternative Energy Stocks — Authority: 491
  The London Accord took a look at what portfolio theory would suggest asthe most effective ways to address Climate Change.  Knowing whichtechnologies dont make the cut is at least as useful as knowing which technologiesdo. Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA I recently looked at a paper from the London Accord which used ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chandigarh records low pollution levels this Diwali

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Chandigarh, Oct 20 (IANS) The air pollution level during Diwali this year in Chandigarh, which is rated the greenest city in the country, was lower than last year, officials said Tuesday.“The sound level and ambient air quality in terms of Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM), SPM, sulphur dioxide (SO2) ...
  3 weeks ago

• Griffin Filters Provides Filtration Equipment for ‘Green Technology’ Projects

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 448
  FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Oct. 20, 2009 — Cemtrex Inc. (OTC: CTEI) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Griffin Filters is now providing air filtration equipment on projects that control emissions from steam boilers that burn alternative fuels as part of green technology programs. “Recently, we have been ...
  3 weeks ago

• India to set up weather stations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) India will set up 50 weather stations in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan to measure and monitor variations in climate, it was decided at the eighth meeting of SAARC environment ministers here Tuesday.India will also pay $1 million to the SAARC forestry centre in Bhutan and another $1 million to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Expensive crackers lead to noise free Diwali

  
  Ub News — Authority: 567
  Diwali! The festival immediately forms an image of lighting, sweets, decorations and last but not the least crackers in the mind. This year there was not much pollution in the air and Diwali seemed less ruffled and quiet. The festival of lights, Diwali was cleaner and more tranquil this year. Is it [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Damage to toxic ship Platinum II raises concern

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Gandhinagar, Oct 19 (ANI): The hull of the Platinum-II ship, allegedly carrying toxic waste, was on Monday damaged, following which, it was grounded off the Alang Port in Gujarat. Rescue efforts are on under the supervision of the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) to save the people on board.There are reportedly nine ...
  3 weeks ago

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