Wasted e-waste
Electronic waste is a mine of precious metals, but poor regulations simplify its squandering away
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 13, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 16, 2022)
When will coliform matter?
India fails to notify standards for treated sewage
Is show cause notice sufficient to drive compliance in industrial units?
The current regulatory regime is delaying compliance by a decade
Simply put: Fifteen of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India
Cleaner air: Can we go back to ‘normal’?
CPCB’s evidence on nation-wide clean up during the lockdown implies that clean air action has to upscale to new normal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 13, 2019)
Ganga needs water, not money
India’s largest cooperative of waste pickers turns 300 tonnes of waste into wealth annually
Urban India generates around 56 million tonnes of municipal solid waste per annum of which 40-50 per cent is not processed and eventually ends up …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 3, 2019)
NGT fines Volkswagen Rs 500 cr for damaging environment
Cheat device in multinational's diesel engines meant more nitrogen oxide emission than claimed
Newer, not better
While India announces a new formula to assess pollution levels in industrial clusters, it shies away from addressing the core problem of how to …
Continuous pollution monitoring initiative needs momentum
Although the majority of the industries surveyed by CSE have installed real-time emission monitoring systems, no significant improvements are …
New units banned in 8 industrial areas; ban lifted from 10 others
Fresh pollution index revealed increasing pollution in industrial areas from where ban was lifted earlier
Plan to incinerate Bhopal waste at Pithampur
Doubts had been expressed earlier over the capacity of the waste disposal facility in Dhar district
Mobile towers are harmless, says declassified CPCB report
It states that there is no substantive or convincing evidence of cell phone radiation’s biological effects that can harm a person’s health
To authorities, it's smelly and you know it, still you don't act on it
India has been dragging its feet over abating odour pollution. Does it lack in infrastructure, or will?
Modi mantra to a healthy and wealthy nation
The mantra of zero defect and zero effect manufacturing practice should translate into no pollution from industrial effluents
Operation of brick kilns in UP: NGT pulls up chief secretary
The tribunal, in an earlier order, said brick kilns in the National Capital Region cannot operate until an assimilative carrying capacity …
Healing festering wounds
An action plan is ready to decontaminate UCILÔÇÖs plant site in Bhopal. It just needs to be implemented
Instant quality check of rivers
Electronic sensors to monitor pollutants in Yamuna, Ganga
Deteriorating air quality in Delhi and Dhaka, as smog envelops both capitals
Bangladesh has been urged by the World Bank to clean up the air by coordinating more closely with its south Asian neighbours
MNRE should get approval for revised policy on repowering wind power projects: Standing Committee
The MNRE strategy paper outlines the bidding trajectory of 37 GW capacity till 2030 for offshore wind projects
CPCB’s new guidelines for India’s stone crusher sector a welcome step
CPCB guidelines in alignment with recommendations made by non-profit Centre for Science and Environment