The state environment department, along with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), have sought legal consultation to claim damages from the two shipping companies whose vessels collided, causing an oil spill off the Mumbai coast, Union Environment minister Jairam Ramesh said at a media briefing in the city Saturday. Terming the whole disaster a “freak accident”, Ramesh said “we have been confronted with a new situation, lessons have to be learnt and a system will be...
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