Simply Put: Environment and development

Plenty of Permits

Thermal power plants must assess health impact for green clearance

Environment ministry notification mandates bi-annual health check-ups for workers 

Remembering Vimal Bhai: The environmental activist, social justice warrior and an inspiration

Bhai was crucial in bringing institutional changes in environmentalism in India

Costly push to mega projects

Cabinet Committee for Investment may dilute environmental and forest clearances

Investment trick

How ecologically damaging projects are perpetuating a fallacy

Odisha government proposes fresh agreement to expedite POSCO steel plant

People protesting land acquisition for the project say they will intensify stir

Serious inquiry

Environment ministry categorises offences relating to environmental clearances

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

'Is Dabolim project in forest area?'

High court seeks status report from Goa's forest department in eight weeks

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

Bully among birds

A college campus in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary flouts wildlife norms

Call the monitor

The MoEF-NHAI roadblock

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

Green clearance test for NDA