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  1. Cancel environmental clearance

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    / February 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The East Coast Energy Pvt. Ltd. (ECEPL) project at Kakarapalli in Srikakulam district should not have been cleared in the first instance by the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for Thermal Projects of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) as it is wrongly located in a wetland. The National Environment Policy approved by the...

  2. Jaya goes green

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    / February 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu is going green on Jayalalithaa’s birthday today. The CM, clearly to avoid any controversy, has asked party cadre to launch an afforestation programme, by planting 64 lakh saplings. This, officials say will increase the state’s green cover from 21 to 30 per cent. Two lakh saplings will be planted...

  3. Vizag on the right track

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    / February 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The City of Destiny is showing the way. The Hindu reports that the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation plans to introduce a community cycling initiative over 10.5 sq km of roads in downtown Vizag. Already `No motor vehicle’ zones across 20 km of roads is in place. Way to go, Vizag!

  4. Indian air is toxic

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    / January 28, 2012 / 1 Comment
    India has the most toxic air. Yale University has confirmed just day before yesterday. According to the Environment Performance Index, being done for the past few years, in fact, whole of South Asia has most toxic air. India’s rank is 125 in 2012 results, while it was 120 in 2008...

  5. Plant a tree, plant hope

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / January 28, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In my early school days, I would anxiously look forward to our ‘free hand drawing’ class as I loved to liberally put my imagination on paper and to colour the imagination the way I liked. I now recall that in most of the sketches the children would draw, a tree...

  6. Something is foul in the Vizag air

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    / January 16, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Despite the notices issued by AP Pollution Control Board to HPCL to back down some of their stacks to prevent air pollution that caused inconvenience to the people of Visakhapatnam during last November, the chemical smell is back in Vizag, giving one the impression that APPCB discharges its functions only...

  7. Naidu goes green. No, not with envy

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    / January 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The grass is not greener on the other side for Chandrababu Naidu. So the TDP chief has decided to give his party symbol, the bicycle, a makeover. The bicycle will now be given a coat of paint and turned into green from black. `Deccan Chronicle‘ reports that the colour of...

  8. Sea shells on the seashore

    Posted by Tinniam V Ganesh
    / January 11, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Ritvik stayed a few feet away from where the receding waves left a wet mark. He had taken his early morning walk to the Marina beach in Chennai. He loved to watch the sun appear from the edge of the water and turn the sea to a shimmering golden glow....

  9. For who Bellary tolls

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    / December 4, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir Turning over a new leaf. That is probably happening literally in Bellary, I had reckoned when I travelled there soon after the Supreme Court had ordered a blanket ban on mining and transport of iron ore in the region in July. The contrast between the old and...

  10. We do not want a Bhopal in Vizag

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    / December 3, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By E A S Sarma The Forum for Better Visakha has, time and again, highlighted the impending pollution threat to Vizag and its surroundings from the existing and new industrial units. There has been no response to our appeals from either the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MOEF) or...

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