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Make plan to curb release of sewage in Noida canal: NGT

The Times of India 03 Aug 2021

A bench headed by NGT chairperson justice Adarsh Kumar Goel asked authorities, which included additional chief Secretary (forest and environment), UP, secretary, urban development, UP, CEO of Noida Authority, district magistrate, Noida, and police commissioner of Noida to take ...

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Ramban-Banihal Section Of Highway: CS-Led Panel Formed For Reviewing Progress Of Projects

The Wire 02 Aug 2021

Besides the Chief Secretary as chairman, the members of the committee includes principal secretaries to government Revenue, PW(R&B) department, ...

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EAD has started building region's most advanced Marine Conservation and Fisheries Research Vessel: Hamdan bin Zayed

Urdu Point 02 Aug 2021

The state-of-the-art, multipurpose marine conservation and fisheries vessel will use environment-friendly technologies in conducting specialised research ... Our future vision of continued improvement through this research vessel is an example of our commitment to the sustainability of our marine environment.".

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Duterte signs law creating PH energy institute

Manila Standard Today 02 Aug 2021

Under the law, PERPI will have its own Advisory Council consisting of 10 members to include five ex-officio members, namely the Secretaries of the Department of Energy, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Science and Technology; ...

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Duterte signs energy research institute law; new body to be housed in UP

Manila Bulletin 02 Aug 2021

President Duterte (Malaca�ng photo) ... 11572 on July 30, 2021 ... The Institute will include five ex-officio members, namely the secretaries of the departments of Energy (DOE), Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and Science and Technology (DOST); the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) director-general; and the UP President ... .

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Coronavirus: New rules for fully jabbed US and EU arrivals begin

BBC News 02 Aug 2021

People who were fully vaccinated in the US or European Union will no longer have isolate when arriving in the UK from an amber list country ... Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said this will be reviewed at the end of the week ... He added ... It just needs clarity ... Theresa Villiers, the former environment secretary, told the Times ... She added ... Related Topics.

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Wild Tusker captured for treatment, released to the wild in Tamil Nadu's Mudumalai

DNA India 02 Aug 2021

Nearly three months ago, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department had captured the elephant, as it kept venturing into human habitations in search of food ... It is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna ... According to Supriya Sahu, IAS, Principal Secretary, Environment and Forests, TN, the radio-collared tusker was released into the wild at around 9.30 am ... .

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Colombia’s lungs trying to win battle against deforestation

La Prensa Latina 02 Aug 2021

By Irene Escudero ... “The year 2020 was the one with the most deforestation, at least over the past three or four years,” Sergio Ivan Nu�ez, the environment secretary for Meta province, where the National Nature Park is located, told EFE ... As Nu�ez said, a paradox has resulted ... “In dry times this is fuel for the big trees ... Tags ....

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A Brain Drain Among Government Scientists Bogs Down Biden's Climate Ambitions

Yahoo Daily News 02 Aug 2021

“The impacts of climate change on the department’s mission are clear and growing,” Richard Kidd, deputy assistant secretary of defense for energy, environment and resilience, said in a statement.

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3 DCs among two dozen IAS transferred in Haryana

Hindustan Times 01 Aug 2021

Ram Sarup Verma will be director (environment) and special secretary (environment and climate change; revenue and disaster management), Narhari Singh Banger, who is additional director, Urban Estate, Rohtak, has been given additional charge of commissioner, Rohtak MC.

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The Guardian view on adapting to global heating: risks must be faced

The Observer 01 Aug 2021

Under Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary who once described global temperature rises as “quite modest”, adaptation funding was slashed from £29.1m to £17.2m in a year ... authorities, the Environment Agency and Met Office, while maps outlining risks are out of date.

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Stop sewage flow from Kansal into Sukhna forest, Punjab told

The Times of India 01 Aug 2021

In the letter to the additional chief secretary (forests), and the additional chief secretary (environment), the UT’s chief conservator of forests (CCF) has said it wanted to draw their attention towards two critical issues related to eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around Sukhna ...

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Stop sewage flow from Kansal into Sukhna forest, Pb told

The Times of India 01 Aug 2021

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No assurance from DOE of blackout-free elections

Manila Bulletin 01 Aug 2021

Rodriguez thus asserted further “There has not been enough action by the DOE in being able to really provide the framework, the environment, so that there should have been more power generation of our country.” He also told Cusi “it is not acceptable if the Secretary will just ...

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Pressure to recall MPs over vaccine passports grows as Tories threaten revolt

AOL 01 Aug 2021

Labour shadow environment secretary, Luke Pollard, said the party was “very cautious” about domestic Covid passports, with leader Sir Keir Starmer ruling out supporting them for use in “everyday life”, ...