Desperate for dam

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

Clearance rush

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

Mining sans social consent

Andhra Pradesh coal firm’s plan to convert underground mine to open cast will affect people of eight villages

India Inc’s new bogey

Industry raises the decibel against green clearances

Tropical storm Ashobaa threatens Oman

Severe weather conditions expected in Oman from June 10

Green tribunal spells its mandate

Forest bureaucracy contended that clearance by the Centre can’t be challenged

Costly push to mega projects

Cabinet Committee for Investment may dilute environmental and forest clearances

Make all forest clearances public in 7 days: green tribunal to MoEF

'Environment ministry kept forest clearance to Demwe project in Arunachal secret to thwart legal action'

SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

MoEF flouts its own order by expanding mine in Saranda without wildlife management plan

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 …

Forest clearance process made comprehensive

Draft policy details inspection, verification, monitoring and procedure of granting forest clearance

OPG flouts environmental laws again

Begins construction without taking forest and CRZ clearance

Bad for people, bad for environment

A new study by Centre for Science and Environment slams system of green clearances

Revoke stage 1 approval to SAIL, OMCL mines in Odisha: forest panel

Steel authority was illegally using mine lease area in forest for storing and processing iron ore while awaiting clearance

The MoEF-NHAI roadblock

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

The inviolate plot

New parameters for identifying pristine forests may make them more vulnerable

Mr Modi, Wish us a Happy Environment Day

Games people play

Institutions that would help resolve conflicts and take credible decisions have been weakened  

Green tribunal halts Mapithel dam in Manipur

MoEF asked to ascertain if project violates Forest Rights Act. State may now need people's consent to go ahead with the project

Chaos in reforms

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

Dangerous deal

To promote development in hilly states, a committee recommends dilution of forest clearance rules, reward for setting up projects

Need or greed?

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

Call the monitor

Green clearance test for NDA

Saranda for sale?

First by diluting it and then by delaying it, the Jharkhand government ensures slow death of a plan meant to safeguard Saranda and its wildlife …