Srestha Banerjee

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Former Programme Manager, Environmental Governance (Community Support and Mining Programme), Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi

India Mining Supreme Court National Green … Environment Environment … Environment Impact … Mining Regulations Chhattisgarh Forests

Environmental clearance for small riverbed sand mining projects lifted

The decision is against the earlier orders of National Green Tribunal

Green tribunal halts construction on Puri coast

Directs Odisha government to submit report on status of waste disposal and treatment in the city by February

MoEF clears Gujarat Pipavav port expansion

Activists say project's impact on the environment and people has not been given due consideration

Grave yards

Ship-breaking industry, once banned in Bangladesh for violating environment and safety norms, is back in business

Vanishing islands of Bangladesh

Frequent natural disasters continue to inundate and erode many islands in the 'climate impact hot spot'

Minor no more

Environment ministry regulates mining of minor minerals, finally

Bareilly civic body to pay for unlawful dumping of city garbage

National Green Tribunal invokes 'polluter pays' principle while imposing penalty to restore dump site

Nirma’s dream hangs in balance

National Green Tribunal defers its decision on Nirma’s controversial cement plant project to October-end

MoEF directed to reassess Pipavav port expansion project

National Green Tribunal reprimands environment ministry for casual evaluation

Cheyyur power project: people to move court against MoEF panel approval

Activists say expert appraisal committee's clearance to proposed ultra mega power project based on false information furnished in EIA report

Regulating small-scale mines below 5 ha

Will National Green Tribunal's restraint order curb haphazard and unscientific mining of minor minerals that includes sand?

Green tribunal clears way for OPG power plant in Gujarat

Appeal challenging state EIA authority's decision to amend conditions of environment clearance dismissed

State has no absolute right over subsoil minerals: SC

Ownership over minerals vest with land owner, says apex court; question of payment of royalty to state referred to a larger bench

Green tribunal gives clean chit to Sterlite plant

Expert panel finds emissions from Vedanta subsidiary's copper smelting plant in Tuticorin to be within limits; state's contention that the plant …

Clearance rush

Environment ministry clears projects, even those rejected earlier, at an unprecedented rate

Clearance of OPG thermal power plant under scanner

Petitioner at green tribunal hearing alleges violation of clearance conditions, insufficient environmental impact assessments of OPG Power’…

NGT reverses closure order for Sterlite’s Tuticorin plant

Tribunal-appointed committee holds meeting in Chennai; Vedanta subsidiary awaits permission to resume operations

Plea to stay Nirma cement plant site inspection rejected

Green tribunal's vacation bench says another site inspection can be scheduled post-monsoon, if required

MoEF contests green tribunal order on fresh site inspection of Nirma cement plant

National Green Tribunal defers decision in view of submissions made by government counsel and farmers’ body opposing the project

Wasteland or wetland?

Three panels’ reports later, green tribunal wants re-evaluation of Nirma project site

Green tribunal decides to evaluate Nirma cement plant site afresh

Says project needs to be reassessed in view of conflicting reports of experts

$Public hearing for coal-fired unit in Trombay power station ends in fracas$

Public hearing for coal-fired unit in Trombay power station ends in fracas

Chembur residents and non-profits go unheard as politicians outshout each other

Private project in public park

Residents of Vadodara protest construction of a multimedia laser fountain in a heritage park

Okhla bird sanctuary in danger

Construction work going on around the avian habitat without any approval

Dedicated Freight Corridor in western India gets forest clearance

The corridor is close to Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai

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