Meghalaya limestone quarries closed

Notice to Mundra for flouting laws

Environment ministry asks to reply within 15 days why the clearance should not be revoked

Desecration of nature responsible for COVID-19: Manipur High Court

The court was listening to a PIL when it made the statement  

Battle over oil, coal & forests

Idol immersions after Durga Puja leave rivers polluted yet again

Central Pollution Control Board guidelines and court directions are yet to achieve the desired result of keeping rivers and lakes free of …

Naga women approach Supreme Court for reservation of seats in local bodies

State cites representations from people's organisations that say implementation of 33 per cent quota in municipal and town councils against Naga …

Kudankulam plant can withstand Fukushima-like disaster: Centre to SC

Court says it will not allow the plant to function if safety conditions are not met

Goa's iron ore miners undergo pollution board check

Consent to operate will be withdrawn if mines found extracting excess ore, say officials

Srinagar officials, residents agree on three more dumpsites

Thermal Power projects threaten Ratnagiri's Alphonso mangoes

Supreme Court slams Centre over apathy to Bhopal waste

Government says delay is because disposal of the waste is “a highly emotional and politicised matter”

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

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 …

Ban paves the way

The bar on polluting brick kilns opens up opportunities for cleaner technologies

Will Delhi High Court help 7-year-old avail expensive therapy for rare genetic disease?

Child’s lawyer says it’s a test case—common citizens have right to good healthcare and life as much as people in high office

High court stays land acquisition for Kovvada nuclear power plant

Petitioner alleges violation of norms, demands land acquisition should be permitted only after environmental clearances are secured

Supreme Court presses for better health facilities for Bhopal gas victims

Asks Centre and Madhya Pradesh government to implement standard treatment protocols, and make public studies on the disaster-affected people

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

Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA

Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry

No consensus on FRA review

Top forest officials and National Forest Rights Act Committee engage in a war of words

In court

Prepaid water meters unconstitutional

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

Food industry challenges validity of panel for junk food sale in schools

Health activists say court petition an attempt to scuttle process of ensuring healthy food in schools

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha