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Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)
Kaziranga’s no-development zone has 90 factories
@KumarSambhav_S Issue Date: Sep 7, 2012
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered all industries that have sprung up in the no development zone near Kaziranga National Park after the zone was notified in 1996 to shut down. It has also imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each on the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the Assam government for allowing the industries to operate in the restricted zone.
MoEF pulled up for flip-flop on tiger tourism
Issue Date: Aug 22, 2012
Make all forest clearances public in 7 days: green tribunal to MoEF
Issue Date: Aug 16, 2012
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to make public all forest clearances given to projects within a week of grant of such clearances. The order was given in connection with an appeal challenging the clearance to the Demwe Lower Hydro Electric Project on the Lohit river in Arunachal Pradesh. The forest clearance granted to the mega hydel project was not made public, allegedly to thwart legal action.
Emissions trading in particulate matter takes off
Issue Date: Jul 30, 2012
Bhushan Steel’s Odisha unit in the dock for illegal expansion
Issue Date: Jul 20, 2012
MoEF notice to halt work on lion safari project in Etawah
Issue Date: Jul 16, 2012
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has put a spanner in Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's pet project—a lion safari in his father's home district, Etawah.
Wildlife tour operators, resorts to shell out conservation fee
Issue Date: Jul 11, 2012
‘Lanco public hearing rigged’
Issue Date: Jun 21, 2012
The fresh public hearing for Lanco Infratech Limited’s 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Mandwa village of Maharashtra’s Wardha district was marked by utter chaos.
Hazaribagh villages up against Reliance Power
Issue Date: Jun 18, 2012
On May 22, some 20 villages in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand called a maha-panchayat and resolved not to let Reliance Power mine coal from Kerendari B and C blocks for its 4,000 MW power plant being set up at Barhi village. The maha-panchayat was convened a week after the police lathi-charged people who would be affected by the mining project and arrested 200 of them during a public hearing. The residents were peacefully protesting against the hearing organised in Hazaribagh town, 44 km from Kerendari village which will fully displaced by the project.
