Air Pollution In Tamil Nadu

The Air Quality Index (AQI) observations, beginning on Deepavali day and ending the following day morning, indicated that the air quality status in Chennai is very poor.

Severe air pollution and smog have hit Tamil Nadu's capital Chennai, where people on Monday observed the Bogi tradition in which old or discarded materials are burnt.

With thousands of workers painstakingly handmaking vast volumes of firecrackers, Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu is usually at full tilt before Diwali. But due to efforts to curb air pollution, the pyrotechnics epicentre is fizzling out.

Air pollution levels dipped across Tamil Nadu on Diwali, the state pollution control board said Wednesday, a day after the festival was celebrated in the state for the first time after the Supreme Court order on the two hour window for bursting crackers came into force.

Around 15,000 people gathered for a protest meeting on Saturday night demanding the closure of a copper smelting plant in the Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu. Alleging pollution of air, water and soil, the protesters say the plant should not be allowed to expand its operations.

Air pollution was at an alarming high in Chennai on Diwali night on Thursday, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board authorities say as a cloud of smog descended over the city reducing visibility.

Thick smoke emanating from a garbage dump yard on the city outskrits, after a fire broke out there, caused severe breathing problems to people living in the vicinity, for some two hours today, police said.

With no noise or air pollution in his campaign, Viyanarasu is perhaps the only eco-friendly electoral candidate in poll bound Tamil Nadu. The social worker and activist-turned-politician carries a solar panel installed on his moped to power his mic and speaker. Often he is on his foot while meeting voters.

Air pollution levels in Chennai have reached a record high with the suspended particulate matter in many pockets of the city at 45 per cent above the permissible limit, according to data analysed by The Hindu. So high are the pollution levels that Chennai has crossed Delhi, widely regarded as the most polluted city in the country, and one of the mo...

The court told Sterlite Industries, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources, to pay Rs 100 crore over five years for air pollution from its copper plant -- India's biggest -- in Tamil Nadu state's port city of Tuticorin.

A Public Interest Litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court for a direction to the Superintendent of Puzhal Central Prison, on the outskirts of the city, not to dispose of human waste and sewage from jail in a manner, it would pollute the air and water in the area.

If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system. What's worse, the noxious fumes contain Butadiene, Chloromethane and Benzene, known to be carcinogenic and between 8.5 to 50...

If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system.

The Air Quality Index (AQI) observations, beginning on Deepavali day and ending the following day morning, indicated that the air quality status in Chennai is very poor.

Severe air pollution and smog have hit Tamil Nadu's capital Chennai, where people on Monday observed the Bogi tradition in which old or discarded materials are burnt.

With thousands of workers painstakingly handmaking vast volumes of firecrackers, Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu is usually at full tilt before Diwali. But due to efforts to curb air pollution, the pyrotechnics epicentre is fizzling out.

Air pollution levels dipped across Tamil Nadu on Diwali, the state pollution control board said Wednesday, a day after the festival was celebrated in the state for the first time after the Supreme Court order on the two hour window for bursting crackers came into force.

Around 15,000 people gathered for a protest meeting on Saturday night demanding the closure of a copper smelting plant in the Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu. Alleging pollution of air, water and soil, the protesters say the plant should not be allowed to expand its operations.

Air pollution was at an alarming high in Chennai on Diwali night on Thursday, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board authorities say as a cloud of smog descended over the city reducing visibility.

Thick smoke emanating from a garbage dump yard on the city outskrits, after a fire broke out there, caused severe breathing problems to people living in the vicinity, for some two hours today, police said.

With no noise or air pollution in his campaign, Viyanarasu is perhaps the only eco-friendly electoral candidate in poll bound Tamil Nadu. The social worker and activist-turned-politician carries a solar panel installed on his moped to power his mic and speaker. Often he is on his foot while meeting voters.

Air pollution levels in Chennai have reached a record high with the suspended particulate matter in many pockets of the city at 45 per cent above the permissible limit, according to data analysed by The Hindu. So high are the pollution levels that Chennai has crossed Delhi, widely regarded as the most polluted city in the country, and one of the mo...

The court told Sterlite Industries, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources, to pay Rs 100 crore over five years for air pollution from its copper plant -- India's biggest -- in Tamil Nadu state's port city of Tuticorin.

A Public Interest Litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court for a direction to the Superintendent of Puzhal Central Prison, on the outskirts of the city, not to dispose of human waste and sewage from jail in a manner, it would pollute the air and water in the area.

If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system. What's worse, the noxious fumes contain Butadiene, Chloromethane and Benzene, known to be carcinogenic and between 8.5 to 50...

If you live in the vicinity of Chennai's largest garbage dump at Kodungaiyur, every breath you take, may have 19 toxic chemicals! Environmentalists say the polluted air could target the respiratory and central nervous system.