How power can be cleaned

Any talk of “cleaning” coal to make it less damaging is untenable

A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large-scale …

Coal needs modern technology for sustainability, say experts

Different countries share their experience with coal-generated energy at CSE's coal conference

Future of clean coal: murky?

The Kemper power project in the US, based on ‘clean coal technology’, attempts to show the way

Case of profiteering from coal block comes to light

Company allotted captive coal block sold stakes; coal ministry issues show cause notice

Four murders and a power plant

Jindal pays for flouting law

Constructs Chhattisgarh plant without clearance

‘Coal emissions nourish trees’

Environment ministry pushes Jindal power plants in Konkan

A symbolic budget

While all the right words have been used in the budget, the programmes are neither well thought out nor given sufficient funds

MoEFCC finalises emission standards for small boilers; but silent on whether they’re applicable for Delhi-NCR

Techno-centric policies, cleaner fuels needed to shave off industrial emissions

Coal companies exempted from public hearing for expansion

One-time hearing okay, says environment ministry

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Rat-Hole Mining in Sutgna village, Jaintia Hills

Delhi dilemma: End this routine air pollution crisis

The bottom line is that air pollution knows no boundaries. So this politics of finger-pointing and scoring points will not lead to cooperation or …

Heatwave in Delhi: Are ACs adding fuel to fire?

Over half the electricity demand during heatwave months can be attributed to need for space cooling at offices, shops, homes

Wealthiest oil producing countries must phase out oil and gas by 2034, poorest by 2050

The world will exhaust the carbon budget for 1.5°C warming in a decade at current rate of emissions

The Pandemic Year: Reforms and amendments

A five-part series as India marks a year of the dreaded COVID-19 lockdown: We look at environmental legislation in this part

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 6, 2023)

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

Hasdeo Aranya: Chhattisgarh government puts three mining projects on hold ‘indefinitely’

Surguja Collector cites disapproval of minister TS Singh Deo; activists say will of people more important

India, Japan to improve bilateral cooperation towards clean energy transition

Indian subcontinent’s massive renewable energy potential can boost green hydrogen production

Without mitigation, global methane emissions would rise by 30% until 2050: Study

A regional and sector-specific approach is important for methane mitigation strategies, it says

India emits the most sulphur dioxide in the world

Five of the top 10 SO2 emission hotspots from coal/power generation industry across the world are in India, finds a Greenpeace study

'Rat-hole coal mining must be discontinued'

There is no such thing as environmentally acceptable and safe rat-hole coal mining 

Now thermal power plants recovering waste heat need no green clearance

The MoEF&CC relaxed the EIA norms to benefit industries employing Waste Heat Recovery Boilers without any auxiliary fuel

Breathless silence

The inconvenient truth is that when there is a public health emergency in Delhi, only the poor are asked to sacrifice