Is an environmental apocalypse approaching India?

The Union government scarcely conceals its contempt for the environment working assiduously to dismantle environment protection.

Costly push to mega projects

Cabinet Committee for Investment may dilute environmental and forest clearances

Chaos in reforms

The TSR Subramanian Committee report, meant to suggest environmental governance reforms, creates more confusion

Investment trick

How ecologically damaging projects are perpetuating a fallacy

Coastal area projects got Centre’s nod without proper environmental impact assessment, finds CAG

Projects used outdated baseline data for green assessment, no environmental impact evaluation 

Turbulence ahead

Green clearance issue solved, Navi Mumbai airport project now faces opposition from people

Clearance rush

Environment ministry clears projects, even those rejected earlier, at an unprecedented rate

Nuclear utility grabs land

Public sector NPCIL encroaches upon mango plantations near its Ratnagiri plant

NHPC cornered over Subansiri

Reports pick apart NHPC’s hydel project in Assam, call for design overhaul

Coal mine expansion made easy

One-time capacity expansion does not require public hearing, says environment ministry

Smaller eco zone irks ministry

Central Empowered Committee wants to reduce eco-sensitive zones around protected areas

Irongate opened

Shah Commission report shows how authorities, mine owners stripped Goa of iron

India Inc’s new bogey

Industry raises the decibel against green clearances

Licence to mine

Supreme Court allows conditional resumption of iron ore mining in Goa

Deaf to nuclear plant protests

Government tries to begin work on the 1,400 MW plant in Madhya Pradesh

Drowned in power

Hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh sell electricity at a loss due to lack of buyers

Breaking the impasse of 2013

MoEF directed to reassess Pipavav port expansion project

National Green Tribunal reprimands environment ministry for casual evaluation

Desperate for dam

Government skews facts to plan a project in Rajasthan that will displace 100,000 people

Experts without expertise

National Green Tribunal disapproves appointment of people without relevant experience to expert appraisal committees, asks environment ministry …

Need or greed?

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

Bully among birds

A college campus in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary flouts wildlife norms

‘MoEF violated Supreme Court order’

Ministry’s own panel says it should not have given clearances to two Uttarakhand projects

Call the monitor

The MoEF-NHAI roadblock

Two Central government arms fight over de-linking of forest, environment clearances