PUBLIC OUTCRY

For the past several months, Delhi has been witness to a half-hearted government being prodded by a determined Supreme Court to clean the Yamuna. …

Sewer river

The countdown to the cleaning up of the Yamuna has begun. The Supreme Court sets a deadline

Master plan for anarchy

The judgement to relocate polluting factories in Delhi leaves several questions unanswered. Will the powers-who-be work to turn good intentions …

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First birthday

Although setting up of the EPA did result in policies to control pollution, political interference has blunted its effectiveness

Critically polluted: Treated effluents from Vapi CETP don’t meet safety standards, find pollution control boards

Industrial area’s comprehensive pollution index score hasn't been calculated in 5 years, say activists

We plan to involve panchayats in monitoring pollution levels

Sheila Rani Chunkat has recently been appointed chairperson of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). She spoke to Binayak Das on how …

Rs 67 crore later

...In Kanpur's Jajmau area, chromium enters food chain. How spent is the Ganga Action Plan?

Industrial units get closure notice over pollution

Ahmedabad's mega project for industrial effluents

Effluent treatment plants have not proved effective

Tishya Chatterjee , member secretary, Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) spoke to Manish Tiwari on the presence of persistent …

Tanned Order

Authorities and the leather industry owners in Tamil Nadu dodge court orders, while a few individuals raise voices to save their ecosystems from …

CETP employee in Gujarat sacked for exposing illegal discharge channels

The political economy of defecation

This is a story about Delhi and the Yamuna, about the relationship between one of India's richest cities and one of her most revered rivers. The …

Textile units in Rajasthan’s Bhituja Industrial Area continue to pollute groundwater, Luni river: NGT panel

The area’s common effluent treatment plant was unfit to treat the effluents from the bleaching units

DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 26-30)

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

Making CETPs work

The pollution commons

CETPs: in fashion

I am green by choice , not by chance

Probably the first chief minister of Delhi to have taken a keen interest in the environment, Shiela Dixit has got a mixed response for her …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 23, 2020)

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

Kolkata tanners unhappy with new relocation site

Mahad loses river, crops

Polluting industrial units closed only on paper

Factories poison Khed

Villagers angry over chemical effluents in their drinking water