-TheNewsMinute.com Former Union Energy Secretary EAS Sarma alleged that the AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB) had allowed the company to operate despite protocols not being followed. Andhra's coastal city, Visakhapatnam, woke up on Thursday to horrific shrieks and heart-wrenching visuals of people falling down onto roads, as a poisonous Gas leaked from LG Polymers Private Limited, a chemical plant. It is located on the outskirts of the city, between RR Venkatapuram and Gopalapatnam....
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Govt extends notice period for draft EIA notification to June 30 -Esha Roy
-The Indian Express Kanchi Kohli of the Centre for Policy Research said, "Environmental laws need to be strengthened and not relaxed as is the draft EIA. For instance, the Gas leak that in Visakhapatnam today; while this is an accident, there will now have to be an investigation to see whether this was a lapse." After receiving numerous representations for extending the notice period of the draft Environment Impact Assessment notification 2020,...
More »Expert panel bars release of Bhopal tragedy research findings -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Report on congenital deformities in children born to women exposed to the 1984 Gas leak is inconclusive, says committee. An expert committee explicitly barred the publication of the findings of a research study that said babies born to women — who as children were exposed to the 1984 Gas leak in Bhopal — were significantly more likely to have “congenital malformations” than those born to women unexposed to the gas. The...
More »Climate change could cause 29% spike in cereal prices: leaked UN report -Nitin Sethi
-Business Standard Food supply chains will get disrupted globally, the study warns. Report to be officially released in August “The rate and geographic extent of global land and freshwater resources over recent decades is unprecedented in human history,” a report authored by UN’s panel of scientists from across the world on climate change is set to inform. Business Standard reviewed a leaked copy of the draft report sent to the governments of...
More »Meanwhile, police wait for word from Govt on what's official secret -Mahender Singh Manral
-The Indian Express The Investigating Officer, Inspector Sunil Kumar, filed the chargesheet in court on April 17, 2015 and since then, police have met senior officials of the Ministry, sent multiple letters with reminders, but they have not received any “concrete response”. New Delhi: In the Supreme Court last week, Attorney General K K Venugopal, making submissions against a plea seeking review of its December 14, 2018 order that dismissed PILs...
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