Environmental clearance for JSW’s Paradip project in Odisha scrapped by NGT

The principle of sustainable development cannot be ignored, the court said

Plastic digester for better biogas production

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.…

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 …

Letter

Water v industry: where is the question?

Wasteland or wetland?

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

Rajasthan's kunds get undesirable makeover

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

Nirma whitewash

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

Meghalaya limestone quarries closed

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

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

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

Some sectors perform at the global best levels, others can reach there

Resource war India after 2020

If the developing world today is the locus of climate change  mitigation, including reduction in emissions, then there surely must exist a …

MoEFCC revises fly ash notification

Fly ash to be given free of cost for agricultural and construction purposes says MoEFCC official at CSE conference

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

Green tribunal decides to evaluate Nirma cement plant site afresh

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

Bhopal to Germany

Airlifting Union Carbide waste requires amending Indian law, violates Basel Convention