Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 28, 2019)

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

Banking on growth, only

Highlights of Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2024

What was on the agenda this time?

MoEFCC proposes new draft rules on wetland management

The new draft allows for the creation of state-level authorities for the management of wetlands

THE GREEN CRUSADE

Over a year has passed since Germany's Green party came to power in 1998 by joining hands with their allies, the Social Democrats. Looking back, …

Expert Appraisal Committees to meet twice a month to fast track environmental clearance

Experts slam government move, stating it would short-change the importance of appraisal and detailed scrutiny in the environment clearance process

What's going on?

Will he beat around the bush?

He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully

Ease of doing business takes precedence over environmental and social concerns in project review process

The office memorandum has taken a very myopic view of any perceived delay in appraisal for environmental clearance

Daft release?

India unveils its National Environment Policy 2004. Is it possible to smell a rat?

Too closed for comfort

Environment ministry begins preparing environment policy amid unwarranted secrecy

MoEF falters

New draft environmental clearance process full of gaps

The price of power

As political parties, environmentalist banner-holders and indigenous industries cry themselves hoarse over the entry of the Cogentrix facility, …

Hot air?

Agenda 21, formulated during the Rio Summit in June 1992, was touted as an earth-saving measure by the leaders of more than 100 participatory …

Holistic approach

Civil society and all government agencies are responsible for sustainable development

2022 too short, too far: 10 best interviews of the year by DTE

DTE spoke to experts on several topics ranging from climate change to biodiversity

Environmental activist Isidro Baldenegro killed in Mexico

This is the second killing of a Goldman Environmental Prize winner in less than a year

Floats for green Goa

Nature's bounty

Let’s build for a green future

CSE recommends that the country should define green and low-carbon cement

‘Someone should speak on behalf of environment’

Shibani Ghosh, the author of Indian Environmental Law: Key Concepts and Principles, speaks to Down To Earth on the role judiciary plays in …

"Big data can be used to counter corporate or state propaganda"

Jean Dreze on why he prefers a solidarity society, rather than a welfare state

Down To Earth makes debut at Jaipur Literature Festival 2017

Down To Earth released its annual report on India's State of Environment 2017 at Jaipur Literature Festival 2017. It was followed by a riveting …

Several Worlds, one vision

Satyajit Ray's films showed an extreme sensitivity to the natural world. Yet he was no naturalist. The people he portrayed were carefully …

Relevance of history

History provides important lessons in the management of the environment for administrators, conservationists and their ideologues. But have we …