The petitions seek review of certain effluent limitations imposed by EPA in a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit on the discharges of Upper Blackstone Water Pollution Abatement District, a sewage treatment plant located in central Massachusetts. The District's discharges are into the headwaters of a polluted river which, in due course, flows into other rivers, and...

The European Court of Justice has declared that Italy has breached Directive 2006/12/EC during the 2007 waste crisis in Naples in the Campania region.In 1997 the Italian government opted for the establishment of a regional waste management but it failed to put into place.In reply to the formal notice sent by the Commission, the Italian authorities acknowledge that and describe the situation as a...

The petitioner/Board is having its Hydel Project situated in Village Shanan at Jogindernagar. It was alleged that H.P. State Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board initially issued one notice, on 29.7.1998, wherein it was alleged that the petitioner's unit was running without the control of the State Pollution Control Board under the provisions of the Water and Air Acts. It was also...

This appeal under section 378 of CrPC is against an order whereby the accused have been acquitted of the charges under Section 23, 24, 47 read with Section 43, 44 of Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, levelled against them. The respondent manufactures manufacturing Thalogrin, Pepolosine green pigment and using Aluminium chloride solvent Sodium chloride as raw materials and during...

These appeals have been filed against the Judgment and Order dated 22.12.2006 of the Madras High Court. A Public Interest Litigation was filed by the Noyyal River Ayacutdars Protection Association, a registered Association (Respondent No. 1), for seeking directions for preservation of ecology and for keeping the Noyyal river in Tamil Nadu free from pollution. According to the said Association, a...

Petitioner has raised grievances about the inefficiency and the incapacity of the officers of the Pollution Control Board to control the contamination of underground water in Boriya Khurad village, causing serious health hazards. The Environmental Engineer of the GPCB in an inspection conducted on 19.04.2004 noticed that a dyeing and manufacturing unit in the above mentioned village had discharged...

In reviving a closed Alaska gold mine using a "froth flotation" technique, petitioner Coeur Alaska, Inc., planned to dispose of the resulting waste material, a rock and water mixture called "slurry," by pumping it into a nearby lake and then discharging purified lake water into a downstream creek. Coeur Alaska obtained a §404 permit for the slurry discharge from the Corps and a §402 permit for the...

The judgment of the ECJ gave answer to a request for preliminary ruling, submitted in the course of proceedings between Gävle Kraftvärme AB and the Regional Authority of Gävleborg, concerning the authorisation to operate a combined heat and power plant. In the dispute the question arose whether a waste incinerator under EU law should be regarded as an incineration or a coincineration plant, which...

The appellant operated a sewage treatment plant facility that converted waste water to sludge for onward processing. The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 require all facilities involved in the disposal of non-hazardous waste by biological or physico-chemical treatment to be licensed by the Agency. The appellant argued the distinction between recovery and...