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

Africa: How climate change turned two of the world’s oldest tribes into enemies

Shrinking of the world's largest desert lake has triggered a survival battle among nomadic tribes in the Kenyan-Ethiopian border

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

Sonam Wangchuk is right. All is not well with Ladakh’s glaciers

In October 2021, 31 glacial lakes and water bodies showed an increase in area by 20%, found CSE & DTE’s State of India’s …

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 …

Biden approves the Willow project — What is it and why has it invited so much backlash?

The vast oil drilling project in Alaska is inconsistent with President Biden’s pledges to lead on climate action

Public hearings for Ken-Betwa river link project a sham, complain activists

People’s organisations say officials did not follow the correct procedure of informing village residents about the project. The environment …

New green clearance procedures make coal mine expansion easy

MoEF office memorandums do away with public hearing for coal mine expansion and delink forest clearance from environment clearance for ultra mega …

Kishanganga dam: court at The Hague seeks details of its environmental impact

Final judgement deferred as India, Pakistan fail to submit details of environment flows and impacts of their hydropower projects

Change carbon-intensive lifestyles to save Ladakh, Sonam Wangchuk appeals to people

Might consider hunger strike if Ladakh is not protected under the Constitution’ Sixth Schedule, the innovator tells Down To Earth 

Clearance of OPG thermal power plant under scanner

Petitioner at green tribunal hearing alleges violation of clearance conditions, insufficient environmental impact assessments of OPG Power’…

Mormugao port expansion: public hearing adjourned third time

Analysis by non-profit Centre for Science and Environment reveals flaws in the project’s environmental impact assessment

MoEF expert panel recommends moratorium on mining, power projects in Konkan

Report kept in wraps calls attention to adverse environmental and social impacts of ongoing industrial activities

Pollution killing freshwater species of Western Ghats: IUCN

16 per cent fish, plants and other freshwater species threatened; 2 per cent near threatened

‘Lanco public hearing rigged’

Farmers accuse power company of registering bogus speakers, question timing of public hearing with sowing season

MoEF clears mining in 36 new sand reaches in Andhra

Move effectively overrules high court stay; approved sand reaches fall in districts acutely affected by overexploitation of river sand

Supreme Court petitioned to stall proposed nuclear plants

Former bureaucrats, scientists,  say government pushing dangerous nuclear power programme without assessing safety or comparing cost with …

Adani project in Mundra has violated environmental norms: MoEF committee report

Report recommends reform of coastal zone regulations, establishment of environment restoration fund