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 …

Need or greed?

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

Sand slips

Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …

Expressly defending white asbestos

The asbestos cement industry is back on the sly with its misinformation campaign. On July 15, 2003, The Indian Express and The Financial Express …

Jettison geography

A fresh map of coastal Gujarat may enable the completion of a jetty whose construction is under dispute

Sordid saga

The Sanghi jetty case takes a new turn as the Gujarat high court directs the Union government to re-examine the issue of environment clearance

Himachal cement plants face flak

The Himachal government's plans to install cement plants in the state create a none too happy situation

Pollution fears cloud future of cement plants

The announcement that more cement factories will be set up in the state has unleashed a controversy. Units already operational have not …

Making cement production less polluting

Researchers are trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the manufacture of cement by finding alternatives to limestone

Problems behind the pugmarks

Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -- the home of the endangered Asiatic lion -- to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya …

No bricks in the wall

India needs solutions to maximise utilisation of fly ash and reduce consumption of clay and air pollution from fired clay brick kilns

Problems behind the pugmarks

Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -- the home of the endangered Asiatic lion -- to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya …

10 cement companies, industry body fined Rs 6,300 crore for cartelisation

The Competition Commission of India found the companies were acting in concert to fix the prices of cement

Environmental governance in India pushes industries to face stricter pollution norms

The last one year of environmental regulation in India has shown many improvements. But a lot remains to be done

Outsiders in their own land

Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights

Curse of limestone

Farmers from 12 Rajasthan villages refuse to part with fertile land for cement companies

Smoke from cement factory leaves toddlers gasping for air in Howrah

Breathlessness, skin allergy and eye infections is all too common for villagers in Dhulagarh in Bengal’s Howrah district 

Hills of greyville

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

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

Blatant lies for laterite

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

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 …

Wasteland or wetland?

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

Nirma whitewash

Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect …

Cement industry misses deadline for new pollution norms

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change asks the cement industry to submit an action plan by April to meet the new norms