Sponge iron’s dirty growth

In the years to come, India's expanding steel production will be largely driven by sponge iron. But its manufacturing process, based on coal, is …

Goa suspends mining trade licences

Move aimed to curb illegal trading in metal ores

Centre suspends green clearances to Goa mines

Conditions for restoring clearances not spelt out

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2023)

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

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

Green tribunal suspends environment clearance of Scania sponge iron plant in Raigarh

Environment ministry granted clearance even though mandatory public consultations were not held

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

Bytes

The wasteland

Bellary has lost 45 per cent of its forest cover to iron ore mining, says the CEC report

Picture imperfect

Fertile and picturesque, that is what Bellary was before companies started indiscriminate mining for iron ore  

Coal quandary

In a sweeping pronouncement, the Supreme Court has termed all the 218 coal blocks allocated since 1993 illegal. This has raised a fundamental …

Ministry indifferent to illegal mining

Shows cold response to recommendations on curbing illegal mining of iron, manganese

Supreme Court lifts ban on 45 mines in Bellary

Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yedduruppa might face CBI probe for his role in illegal mining

SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

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

Norwegian pension fund, banks invest in polluting Indian steel mill

Foreign investors in India ignore green performance of industries

Irongate opened

Shah Commission report shows how authorities, mine owners stripped Goa of iron

Mineral development PSU snaps ties with Rio Tinto

Joint venture with Anglo-Australian firm to explore iron ore yielded no result

Licence to mine

Supreme Court allows conditional resumption of iron ore mining in Goa

SC's expert panel says limited iron ore mining can be allowed in Goa

Recommends strong regulatory mechanism should be in place before mining is resumed; industry cheers over possible lifting of one-and-a-half year-…

ICMR launches three new diagnostic kits

They will help reduce costs of detecting pathogens in food, estimating iron levels in blood and determining vitamin A levels in blood under …

Bad for people, bad for environment

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

Environment ministry creates a record in forestland diversion

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

Green tribunal suspends environmental clearance to Gogte Minerals

Chairperson of expert committee that granted clearance had conflict of interest

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

Environment takes backseat during public hearing for pig iron plant expansion near Gandhi ashram

‘Pollute our water, but give us jobs,’ residents plead with Uttam Galwa Metallics