Tag: Department of Environment (DoE)
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Bangladesh’s real estate and housing firms big polluters
Realtors real violators L-R: Filling low-lying wetlands and destroying aquatic life and ecology. Not following the directives related to the surroundings of a site including keeping open space. Photo: STAR (left), writer (right) Published in The Daily Star on November 10, 12 Even though the Department of Environment ‘DoE’ and Rajuk have been penalizing real…
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Let’s save the environment, Earth
Left: Denudation of forests goes on unabated. Right: River water remains polluted to the extreme. The Daily Star/Environment August 4, 2012 Amid growing industrialisation and pressure of increasing population, and consequent massive pollution due to gross violation of environmental rules, the government has cut this year the budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Environment and…
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Checking Air Pollution: Enforcement of rules imperative
Read the original article on The Daily Star In its latest move against air pollution, the government is setting up six air-quality monitoring centres at different places of the country including Dhaka to better identify the extent of toxicity–the key reason behind respiratory illnesses and chronic bronchitis. Officials at the Continuous Air Monitoring Stations (CAMS)…