Not learning from Bhopal

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 3, 2020)

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

No one is cleaning up

25 years on, thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste is scattered around the Union Carbide factory

Action against polluting units gives Goa villagers some relief

A work in progress

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

SC extends endosulfan ban

Pesticide makers claim inbreeding, not endosulfan, causing health problems in Kasaragod  

Data fudged for mining clearance

Iron ore mines in Goa also concealed facts to get environmental clearance, shows report

A revolution gone awry

Easy access to agro-chemicals in Sri Lanka blamed for public health scare

Oil leak triggers crisis in Russia

Effluents from Bhilwara textile units flow unabated

Stink of India's steel frame

Steeled up

Unable to bear pollution any longer, people in Kotdwar force Uttarakhand to commission an independent assessment of steel factories in the region

Interstate dirty dumpers

Industrial units illegally dump hazardous waste in remote fields, often crossing state borders, to dodge the law and cut costs. ravleen kaur …

Lost in plantation

Millions of growers and workers are in distress in Kerala, the plantation capital of India, as domestic and international prices of cash crops …

Act to make Coca-Cola pay

Kerala passes law on tribunal to secure compensation for victims of bottling plant

Mills pollute Uttaranchal hills

Indonesia to dump hot mud in Java Sea

Open cast mining threatens Assam

A measure of pollution

War over waste

People of Bengaluru pitch a battle against civic body which has neglected mounting piles of garbage

Subterranean Leak

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal. CSE tests reveal the water and soil in and around the Union Carbide factory …

Into the ginger trap

Farmers from Kerala make big bucks by growing ginger in Karnataka but leave behind a trail of pollution

In court

Battle over oil, coal & forests