Court raps environment ministry

Asks why it allowed Nirma to create confusion on wetland

Hills of greyville

Fast-expanding steel industry yet to find an effective way to reuse its waste product, slag

Cleared for growth

Is it all grey?

NIDHI JAMWAL looks at ways to utilise flyash, and so combat a polluting scourge

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 20, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Illegal sand mining around the world: islands disappear; livelihoods at stake

As demand for usable sand surpasses supply, illegal miners are stripping riverbeds, beaches and causing irreversible damage to environment

Nirma's cement plant hits hurdle

Supreme Court asks the industrial house to prove that the plant site is a wasteland

Nirma plant in trouble again

Environment ministry says project site a wetland

La farce

Jaypee powers ahead in Himachal

‘Company built power plant illegally; managed clearance’  

Blatant lies for laterite

Andhra pollution control board holds public hearing for a project in Schedule Five area  

Himachal denotifies sanctuaries for hydel projects

No concrete plans

The Centre for Science and Environment's Green Rating Project team has rated the cement industry. Its findings uncovered some surprises. The …

International banks lobby for Lafarge

Amounts to influencing ongoing Supreme Court case, say activists

Big numbers

The state is on a spree

Need or greed?

The Union Ministry of Finance has recently alleged that green clearances are holding up the country’s infrastructure development and growth.…

The balancing act

Tribunal cancels three environmental clearances; upholds three

Neither voluntary nor compliant

India's first ever Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection, unveiled amid much hype on March 13 in New Delhi, has turned …

Eco-friendly slag to help make cement in Chhattisgarh

Letter

Wasteland or wetland?

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

Water v industry: where is the question?

An exercise in flippancy

Planning Commission report for a low-carbon future disappoints

8% FOREVER

Per capita emissions will remain competitively low  

Some sectors will struggle to be the best, some can’t as they operate in tropical India