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Cement firm Issued Show-cause Notice

Ambika Sharma The Tribune, Solan, March 19 Having woken up from its slumber after an NGO released reports of toxic heavy metals in the air quality of the JP Cement Blending and Grinding Unit at Bagheri, the State Pollution Control Board has issued a 15-day show-cause notice to the plant for their failure to maintain […]

Independent Air Sampling reveals 11 chemicals in the atmosphere of which four beyond safe levels

Press Release: 18th August 2010   On 22nd May 2010 members of the Him Parivesh, a local environment action group based in Nalagrh, with the help of Community Environment Monitoring, a Chennai based group working on pollution, took an Air Sample in the BBN area to detect the level of VoCs or Volatile Organic Compounds […]

Communities Gear Up To Take Pollution Problem Head-on!

Press Note 23rd May 2010  Community Environment Monitoring Training The unprecedented air and water pollution in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalgarh Industrial area has been in the news since the last few years. Recently, the industrial hub, dominated by chemical and pharma companies, has today been identified as a pollution hot spot even by the Ministry of Enviornment […]