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 

The flyash burden

Will the targets set for utilising flyash by power plants be met?

Nirma loses wetland

Environment ministry revokes clearance to its cement plant

Court raps environment ministry

Asks why it allowed Nirma to create confusion on wetland

Apex court spanner in Nirma cement plant

Cleared for growth

Hills of greyville

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

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’  

It is critical to lift veil of secrecy around use of refuse-derived fuel in cement plants

Discussions with cement companies over co-processing RDF shows logistical issues plaguing its adoption

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 …

Big numbers

The state is on a spree

International banks lobby for Lafarge

Amounts to influencing ongoing Supreme Court case, say activists

The balancing act

Tribunal cancels three environmental clearances; upholds three

Need or greed?

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

COP28 side-event on carbon capture technologies in cement sector highlights key barriers and successes

Electricity demand, CO2 leakage risks to drinking water and high costs among key issues  

Eco-friendly slag to help make cement in Chhattisgarh

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 …