Observing that the compliance report has asserted that a re-tendering proposal has been submitted by the SPCB to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) for setting up 13 new Ambient Air Monitoring Stations in Jammu Division, the DB directed that CPCB shall file a status report on the progress of proposal.
DB also directed IG Traffic to shall inform this Court as to whether there is a full-fledged traffic plan in place for the Jammu city.
On water pollution, the DB was informed that three Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) have been set up or are under construction at Bhagwati Nagar.
One Sewage Treatment Plant has a capacity of 10 million liters per day but the same is underutilized and approximately 5 million liters per day is treated in this Sewage Treatment Plant.
There is another Sewage Treatment Plant having a capacity of 30 million liters per day but this is not operational.
The third STP at Bhagwati Nagar having a capacity of 27 million liters per day is under construction.
Therefore, more STPs need to be planned and set up for the old city area, the DB observed.
Observing that 95 million liters of sewage is flowing untreated into the river Tawi and polluting the same and the rest of the city across the river Tawi has no STP and we do not even know the figures of the amount of sewage which is generated per day in those parts of the city, Division Bench arrayed Commissioner/Secretary to Government of J&K, Housing and Urban Development Department, as respondent and directed Senior AAG Seema to file a status report indicating as to what plans are in place for treatment of sewage in the rest of the city across the river Tawi.
Upon this, the DB observed that this raises the concern with regard to the manner in which municipal solid waste is to be dealt with and arrayed Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Corporation, and issued notice and said that notice shall go to S. S. Nanda, Senior Additional AG, who is the standing counsel for JMC.
DB further directed that Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Corporation, is required to file a status report before the next date with regard to the management of Municipal Solid Waste.

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Frederick Noronha A friend and colleague, commenting via Facebook recently, raked up some strong views when he wrote: “Problem with Goa is it knows what it doesn’t want.
But this argument is actually just another variant of the view that ‘Goa protests everything’ logic.
To be fair, this is either a misunderstanding of the local reality, or a distortion of the same.
In order to make it sound convincing, a long list of protests by citizens is pointed out.
We need to remind ourselves that he was a man who rose so high in politics, at the very end of his career, but only after struggling and facing ridicule for being involved with people’s issues, concerns and protests for much of his life.
Nobody protests the social infrastructure, especially if they seem to benefit from it, or projects that would help the population to get ahead and get on with life, successfully.
When it comes to huge educational projects, the questions being raised are of cost-benefit and also the land resources being allocated to the same.
People-friendly, human-sized growth, which would have benefitted those who need it most, could have made a real difference to Goa.
What we don’t realise is that while passengers get a raw deal, our current taxi system isn’t benefitting most taxi owners or drivers-cum-owners.
Their fight over passengers reflects their desperation, if anything.

This year, Mutya Laxa-Buensuceso, country manager for Luxasia, the parent company of Aveda, wanted to focus on fashion and wearable art in a hair and fashion show, accentuated by Aveda’s signature Eclipting technique.
In a desire to address the worsening state of the Philippine environment, air and water pollution, denudation of our forests, irresponsible waste disposal, and its life-threatening effects, Aveda has celebrated Earth Month 2017 with a different kind of hair and fashion show.
This year, Mutya Laxa-Buensuceso, country manager for Luxasia, the parent company of Aveda, wanted to focus on fashion and wearable art in a hair and fashion show, accentuated by Aveda’s signature Eclipting technique.
Aveda tapped jewelry designer and local artistry jewelry traditions advocate Natalya Lagdameo, designer of authentic hand fans Monchet Diokno Olives, and maker of wearable art Jun Jun Ablaza to create pieces for the eco-friendly hair and fashion show.
Half of the proceeds will go to Bantay Kalikasan.
She explains that it helps for a global brand to partner with them, even as Bantay Kalikasan has already established credibility for 20 years.
Even though he envisioned seven pieces, he showed five pieces instead.
Basement Salon’s Fendi-Dudi George Rohan says the eclipting technique, developed by Aveda, “works best with Asian or even Filipino hair.” While the idea came from Aveda hairstylists in the United States, at Basement Salon, he explains that they mixed the technique with Balayage, so the combination is soft, nice, highlights with a touch of blonde or reds at the ends.
Eclipting works with any kind or any color.
The change is people are daring, more edgy, more trendy, and it makes me happy.” Haruka Takayama, style director of Sora Salon, says, “I love that Aveda is natural, and for the show, I just imagine the hair and color if it will work.” Her colors were more subtle.

Diffuse Pollution, Degraded Waters: emerging policy solutions.
After decades of regulation and investment to reduce point source water pollution, OECD countries still face water quality challenges (e.g. eutrophication) from diffuse agricultural and urban sources of pollution, that is disperse pollution from surface runoff, soil filtration and atmospheric deposition.
The relative lack of progress reflects the complexities of controlling multiple pollutants from multiple sources, their high spatial and temporal variability, associated transactions costs, and limited political acceptability of regulatory measures.
This report outlines the water quality challenges facing OECD countries today, presents a range of policy instruments and innovative case studies of diffuse pollution control, and concludes with an integrated policy framework to tackle diffuse water pollution.
An optimal approach will likely entail a mix of policy interventions reflecting the basic OECD principles of water quality management – pollution prevention, treatment at source, the polluter pays and beneficiary pays principles, equity, and policy coherence.
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However, two drinking water wells in the base’s Hill system, which serves about 3,000 people on the Lakehurst portion, tested at 215 parts per trillion in December.
But a review of water pumping records by this news organization showed the two "backup" wells provided about 15 percent of water to the Hill system from 2007 to 2016.
From May 2014 to April 2015, records show the two contaminated wells supplied about three-quarters of the water in that system.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the arm of the CDC responsible for investigating potential toxic exposures at federal sites such as military bases, said in an email that it hasn’t looked at potential exposure to PFOA and PFOS “because we didn’t have the data to evaluate these contaminants.” After PFOA and PFOS contamination issues were found at a former military base in Warminster, Pennsylvania, the agency conducted a health assessment to determine that the perfluorinated chemicals posed a “public health hazard in the past.” Asked about doing a similar analysis at the joint base, the agency wrote that its “main role, currently, has been to provide health education related to (PFOS and PFOA) exposure.” On the state level, Health Department spokeswoman Nicole Kirgan said in an email: "The New Jersey Department of Health has not been involved with this site, as this is a federal Department of Defense site and falls under federal oversight."
Pumping records from the base showed the two contaminated wells were taken offline in November 2015 and not used again until they were tested for the chemicals in October 2016.
There is no indication why that happened.
David Kluesner, chief of public outreach for the EPA’s Region II office, wrote in an email: “At this time, it is unknown why the wells were taken out of service.” He also said the agency was working with the military, DEP and CDC to “evaluate all relevant information.” The base’s pumping records also showed the two contaminated wells were first sampled in October 2016, when they were pumping only a small amount of water.
Those tests showed no contamination.
Asked whether the DEP staff would review the pumping records to ensure proper testing, press officer Larry Hajna said in an email: “In general, any time a water system encounters an issue with elevated levels of contaminant for which there is no (legal limit), we recommend that the operator take steps to mitigate, such as using the well only if necessary and blending with other water.
Asked the same question about pumping records, the EPA’s Kluesner wrote, “Currently, the Air Force is investigating PFOA/PFOS contamination at the site, and all appropriate information, including the pumping records, will be considered in the evaluation.” When asked if it’s possible the chemicals may migrate from the closed wells to other area wells, he wrote, “The investigation of contamination at this site is in its early stages, and the focus is on determining if drinking water wells are impacted now.” Hajna did not answer that question for the DEP.

And within 10 years, 90 percent of Missouri’s independent hog producers were forced out of business by their competition.
He’s also reviewed countless studies on CAFOs prepared by highly reputable research institutions.
Ikerd found serious consequences from CAFOs are inevitable.
However, the economic, ecological, and social consequences are inevitable for any significant group of CAFOs at any point in time and for any individual CAFO over a significant period of time."
On water pollution, he said the EPA found waste generated by large-scale hog and other CAFOs had polluted over 35,000 miles of river and contaminated groundwater in 17 states.
"The environmental regulation of CAFOs has been far less stringent, and far less effective, than for other industries because CAFO supporters have been able to convince lawmakers that CAFOs are agricultural, not industrial, operations.
This expert in sustainable agriculture writes that negative effects on water quality are a consequence of waste from too many animals in areas too small to effectively assimilate it.
CAFOs should be regulated like any industrial operation, he wrote, and animal waste should be regulated much like human waste to protect public health.
Pig waste is 39 times more concentrated than human waste, "so animal waste can quite logically be thought of as a form of toxic waste.
Those who express scientifically justifiable concerns over the inevitable environmental effects of a CAFO located in an ecologically sensitive watershed are labeled by those behind CAFOs as emotional over-reactors and "radical, idealistic environmentalists who just don’t understand modern agriculture," Ikerd wrote.

Union employees who have not received a raise from the City of Sunnyvale for over five years are set to strike Monday, which is also International Workers’ Day, officials from the Sunnyvale Employees Association announced Friday morning.
Critical public health and safety workers, including police, fire crews, paramedics, dispatchers and garbage collectors will remain on duty through the strike.
A number of other striking employees, including road service crews, will be on standby in case of emergency, according to union and city officials.
The library, community center and senior center will be limited to weekend-level staffing, city officials said.
The decision came Thursday after the union’s negotiating team, including an attorney and SEA president John Simontacchi, turned down the city’s final offer in a meeting with human resources director Teri Silva and Sunnyvale’s outside legal counsel, Charles Sakai.
Union leaders, who are asking for a 14 percent raise but are open to new offers if they include an ongoing raise component, rejected that offer and scheduled the strike, which had been authorized by voting union members two days prior.
At that meeting Tuesday evening, 355 of the 361 members present voted to authorize the strike, according to lobbyist Dustin DeRollo, who is contracting with SEA.
About 423 of those members have voting privileges under union rules, DeRollo said.
Two other city employee unions, the Sunnyvale Public Safety Officers Association and the Sunnyvale Managers Association, sent letters in support of SEA receiving a fair contract to Sunnyvale Mayor Glenn Hendricks and City Council earlier this month.
Thus far, the city has refused to offer that.” SEA members average more than $100,000 a year, but have not received the cost of living raises that the city has budgeted for since 2015 and is now refusing to pay.

Mark Lloyd, chief executive of the Angling Trust and Fish Legal, explains why clean rivers are so important Exit player River and fishing groups have rounded on Wales’ environmental regulator Natural Resources Wales, branding it "no longer fit for purpose".
Mark Lloyd, chief executive of the Angling Trust and Fish Legal, said the regulator needed to take a much tougher stance but did not have "the resources to investigate properly".
The NRW argues that it is misleading to equate effectiveness with the numbers of prosecutions, saying it takes enforcement action "where appropriate".
There, England’s Environment Agency is taking "a really proactive approach", according to Dr Marsh-Smith, partnering with the Wye and Usk Foundation.
She is working with Welsh Water to bring a similar project to west Wales.
Pollution incidents from farms is not increasing significantly year on year but the NRW still regards it as too high and in need of reduction.
"It has become serious over the latter few years, and is an issue very much here in west Wales," he said.
Mr Manley said if incidents of agricultural pollution were isolated in the figures, the percentage facing enforcement action would rise to around 6-7%.
But he said sanctions were only "one of the tools in the box" and the organisation was trying to work proactively with farmers, an approach supported by Welsh Government.
He emphasised there was a need to work in partnership with the farming industry and charities to help tackle the issue of pollution on Welsh rivers.

EU nations ‘must back new coal plant standards’.
wind energy advocacy group has called on EU Member States to push through new standards for fossil fuel plants.
Today, European nations are due to vote whether to accept an updated set of environmental rules for coal and lignite-fired power plants.
WindEurope claims some governments seek to protect these industrial sectors by demanding a weakening of the proposed emissions limits.
The group says the new limits would reduce air pollutants such as dust, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, improve thermal efficiency and reduce soil and water pollution.
The change would likely accelerate the closure of older, inefficient power plants and discourage new investments in coal and lignite.
It adds removing this unnecessary capacity could also help restore wholesale electricity prices to the levels needed to support investments in cleaner and more efficient power generation.
WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson said: “The new standards that are on table to be approved don’t come from the green lobby.
“They come from experts including those in industry who know what is technically and economically feasible.
It’s extraordinary that some Member States want to vote against them.” A global investment firm is to divest from companies which rely on coal for more than half of their revenue.