Electrical Accident at MALCO Coalyard; 1 dead; 1 injured
Mettur, May 17, 2012: One truck driver, aged about 40 years, was killed, and a cleaner injured in an electrical accident at the MALCO coal yard in Mettur railway station. Read More...

Beneficiary Bureaucrats; Vigilance asks Jaypee to furnish details
Shimla, May 14, 2012: Having come under the scanner of investigating agencies for doling out favours to influential persons, Jaypee Associates Ltd (JAL) has been asked to furnish details of wards of bureaucrats who have been given jobs in the company and admission in its IT university at Vaknaghat. Read media story...

Jaypee's Cement Plant Continuing To Pollute
Shimla, 12 May 2012: Him Parivesh Environment Protection Society today convened a meeting under the leadership of Jagjit Singh Dukhiya to discuss matters related to gross violations of Pollution related norms in the Baddi Barotiwala Nalagarh Industrial Area. Read More...

'Jaypee's cement plant still polluting environs'
Solan, May 12, 2012: The Him Parivesh Environment Protection Society today alleged that the cement grinding and blending unit of Jaiprakash Associates Limited at Bagheri continued to pollute the area as massive toxic dust was visible, especially early in the mornings. Read media story...

Landmark Judgement For Environment Justice In The Country: Him Parivesh
Shimla, 05 May 2012: Him Parivesh Environment Protection Society, one of the petitioners in the writ petition against Jaiprakash Associates Limited which led to the historical judgement passed by the Green Bench on 4th May 2012, organised a press conference today at Nalagarh. Read More...

HC slaps Rs 100 cr penalty on JP group
Shimla, 05 May 2012: In a landmark decision the Himachal Pradesh High Court’s green bench on Friday imposed a penalty of Rs 100 crore on Jaiprakash Associates (JAL) for committing serious environmental violations, defrauding government agencies by adopting fraudulent means to set-up its cement plant and also a thermal power plant ignoring local protests. Read media story... //    More Media Coverage...

Barrage Cleaning Works Kills Fish in Cauvery
May 3, 2012. Mettur: Massive fish kills were reported within the confines of the barrages along the Chekkanur-Mettur stretch of the River Cauvery. Read More...

Toxicity levels above normal in Kodungaiyur, study reveals
Chennai, 18 April 2012 Samples taken during the burning of garbage in Chennai Corporation's dumping yard in Kodungaiyur recently, have revealed that levels of two carcinogens were far above levels considered safe for lifetime exposure by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). Read media story...

Test Shocker; Killer Chemicals Lurk In The Smoke
Chennai, 18 Apr 2012: The burning of garbage in Chennai's dumping yards poses severe health hazards, even exposing residents of localities nearby to the threat of cancer. Read media story...

Poison in the air

ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR
in Cuddalore
Frontline
The Hindu
04 June, 2005

Poisonous gases released into the air by some chemical units in the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, continue to endanger the lives and livelihoods of people in a number of villages in the absence of government action.

At the SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore. Gases released by chemical units have severely affected the air quality in the area.

VILLAGES in the industrial area on the outskirts of Cuddalore town in Tamil Nadu are increasingly being identified more by pungent smells than their names - smells of rotten cabbage, burnt rubber, rotten egg, neem, detergent, human excreta, decomposing bodies, mosquito coils, rotting bones, decaying chikoo fruit, and nail polish. The smells come from toxic chemical compounds that are manufactured or released as effluents by the 18 companies in the industrial area and which have been damaging the environment and the health of more than 20,000 people in about 20 villages. Read more...