Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (May 18-22, 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

Alternative fuels can reduce air and noise pollution levels

Vialle, a company based in the Netherlands, manufactures customised cars using alternative fuels like compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied …

Fuels for the future

Despite being clean, alternative fuels fail to become the first choice

Could Bhopal gas victims have got more compensation?

A 1988 confidential letter by JRD Tata to Rajiv Gandhi reveals Union Carbide was willing to pay a higher compensation in case of an out-of-court …

Bhopal gas leak: curative petition downplays number of deaths

Victims threaten rail roko agitation if government fails to correct death and injury figures in a month

Three OIL exploration proposals up for consideration in Assam even as Baghjan smoulders

While clearance for Baghjan was opposed by locals during public hearings, such dissent will amount to nothing with the three proposed projects

First global standard to measure greenhouse gas emissions from cities launched

The standard launched in Lima will help cities track their emissions and develop action plans to reduce it

Bhopal protesters knock on Dow Chemical's door in Mumbai

Demand clean up of toxins in soil and water around Union Carbide plant, production of absconding corporation officials before Indian court

Lawsuit in US shows fresh evidence to nail Union Carbide role in Bhopal gas disaster

Previous lawsuit by gas disaster survivors was dismissed by US court for lack of sufficient evidence to show company was liable for environmental …

Quality control

Cost-effective clean air requirements can be met by use of natural gas

Common energy tax for EU countries

तिनसुकिया गैस कुएं में आग और तेल रिसाव से खेती की जमीन हुई खराब

लगभग 14 दिन तक तेल रिसाव के बाद 9 जून को आसाम के तिनसुकिया जिले में इस तेल कुएं में आग लग गई थी

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 29, 2020)

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

भोपाल गैस पीड़ितों के अस्पतालों में अब सिर्फ कोरोनावायरस मरीजों का होगा इलाज

मरीजों का आरोप है कि अस्पताल में भर्ती गंभीर रोगियों की छुट्टी की जा रही है। डायलिसिस कराने आने वाले मरीजों को भी लौटाया ...

Physical stores emit more GHG than home delivery, less than online stores

Study by European researchers assessed three types of shopping including traditional and two types of online

8 लाख वर्षों में सबसे ऊपर पहुंचा कार्बन डाइऑक्साइड का स्तर

मानव निर्मित ग्रीन हाउस गैसों के उत्सर्जन के चलते, पृथ्वी के वायुमंडल में कार्बन डाइऑक्साइड की मात्रा खतरनाक स्तर पर पहुंच गई है। 

IIT Madras inks pact with ExxonMobil to boost biofuel research

The five-year agreement is focused on data analytics, gas conversion and transport and is aimed towards finding low-emission solutions

Not a single cool month in the last 628 months

India, which just experienced one of the hottest Septembers in the last century, loses at least 400 people to heat waves every year

आंदोलन, कविताओं की जुबानी

यह किताब भोपाल की त्रासदी, केरल की एंडोसल्फान त्रासदी और अन्य पर्यावरण के विनाश की याद ताजा करती है जिनसे लाखों लोग प्रभावित हुए ...

Four Indian companies among 100 global businesses with highest carbon footprint

Coal India tops the list with 2,014 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emission, which is about 86 per cent of country’s total CO2 emission

Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt

This would be the cost of “negative emissions” technologies required to remove CO₂ from the air

Survivors' hopes rise

Wronged again

Exposure: Portrait of a corporate crime

Photos of Bhopal by Raghu Rai

Vishakhapatnam gas leak: What were the errors and what are the lessons

Industrial management methodologies have to be fine-tuned in line with the COVID-19 pandemic, not only to ensure safety but to function effectively