Court digest: Major environment hearings in April

This week saw National Green Tribunal ask Goa to frame a policy to check illegal mining and Union Ministry of External Affairs to address discharge of untreated effluents from Bangladesh. For more, click here

During the month's second week, the tribunal directed industries in Taloja, Mumbai not meeting pollution norms to be shut down and the Supreme Court refused to let manufacturers make fireworks with a substitute of barium namely barium nitrate. For more such court cases, click here

This week in courts was about the Delhi high court conditionally allowing human embryonic stem cell therapy and the NGT receiving a complaint against a Muzaffarpur power plant causing fly ash pollution. To find out more, click here

April 2019's last week witnessed the SC permit felling of 202 trees in Perumalai Forest for road construction and the NGT tell Tamil Nadu that more needs to be done to ensure sustainable development. For more court cases from that week, click here