‘EIAs of mining projects have become a farce’

Christopher Albin-Lackey, senior researcher with New York-based non-profit Human Rights Watch (HRW), has documented the large-scale environmental …

NGT wants groundwater extraction based on EIA only

Tribunal calls for doing away with general permissions given to commercial entities to withdraw groundwater

What it means to have a crisis: Understanding labour law relaxations in India and global trends

We may move towards a decision that pushes industrial production at the cost of our environment and the relaxation of environmental laws  

EIA notification 2020 delayed till September 7

A petition had been filed in court, asking the notification be translated in all 22 regional languages of the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution

The Supreme Court is sending wrong signals on post facto environmental clearances

Recently, the apex court has overlooked its own judgments and the underlying logic behind why there is a mechanism for environmental …

A 5-star hotel in Udaipur botches up green clearances

A five-star hotel on Rajasthan's Udaisagar lake nears completion despite having flouted every rule in the book

Environment (Protection) Act: 39 changes made to rules in 2 years of pandemic, shows report

Most relaxations & exemptions made for development projects through gazette notifications, office memorandums, orders

West Bengal green assessor failed to perform its duty well: CAG

The organisation did not perform due diligence while granting environment clearances and doing post-clearance monitoring between 2012 and 2017

Preventing forest loss on private land can aid elephant conservation: Paper

Elephants prefer areas close to forests, with high vegetation cover and low human population densities, according to a recently published …

Here’s why Centre’s new SOP may damage Environment Impact Assessment regime

MoEF&CC’s new guidelines no deterrent; rather, they send a message to violators to ‘pay their way through’

Rajasthan's amended mining rules could spell fresh legal trouble for state mining department

New rules allow cluster mine holders to circumvent environmental clearance; high court had stressed on obtaining the mandatory clearance

Lessons from a pandemic: Urgency for climate action

Much like the claimed behaviour of an ostrich burying its head underground in the face of risk, we demonstrate our capacity to ignore risks like …

Union Budget 2022-23: Why CSE advocated single-window clearances

Parivesh portal to be expanded with a target to clear projects with a 360-degree assessment    

Who is eligible to raise questions in public hearings?

Sintex power says only those who reside in the region or belong to a non-profit can do so

Haryana village protests nuclear power plant

Official at public hearing tells residents that radiation is human friendly and used for cancer treatment 

Green clearances not required for new coal mine leaseholders

Environment ministry transfers environment clearances of previous leaseholders to new allottees

Madras High Court admits petition accusing Tamil Nadu works department of illegal sand mining

'None of the 42 mining sites on the Cauvery and Kollidam rivers have environment clearance'

Delhi High Court cancels clearance to mining project in Goa

Ramesh Gauns, an environmental activist, had been battling the government, against the clearance for five years

Goa public accounts committee blows the lid off mining scam

Fifteen million tonnes of iron ore extracted and exported from the state illegally in last six years

Vedanta's expansion plan hits road block

Environment ministry wants fresh environmental impact assessment for mining giant's Lanjigarh alumina refinery

Construction boom will make cities unliveable: Centre for Science and Environment

Non-profit calls for support for green buildings programmes which should not be reduced to a sham to protect realty profits

POSCO asked to revise plans for fresh environment clearance

Environment ministry's expert committee seeks new layout plan; fresh studies on environmental and social impact

Jalandhar village opposes waste-to-energy plant

Project developer, Jindal Urban Infrastructure Limited, could not answer queries satisfactorily at public hearing

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 17-21, 2020)

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

Delhi’s Signature Bridge needs environmental clearance

NGT orders Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation to seek environmental clearance for the suspension bridge, bringing bridges …