Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 26-30)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 28, 2019)

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

Why Bhavnagar farmers oppose limestone mining

Letter to high court-appointed panel lists reasons

Outsiders in their own land

Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights

Death crawl

Carnivorous snails of Thailand face extinction due to mining

The sapling brigade

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Himachal cement plants face flak

The Himachal government's plans to install cement plants in the state create a none too happy situation

Land goes to industry

SC upholds mining ban on Lafarge

French cement company now wants to follow Vedanta

What exactly are cattle fed?

In Punjab, too much limestone powder and urea: adulteration hardly a bother for feed-makers

Nirma cement plant in Gujarat cleared

Unhappy with court verdict, farmers to move apex court

Court cements Nirma claim

Rejects farmers’ plea against cement plant in Bhavnagar

Lafarge’s fait accompli

SC allows French giant to mine in forest; asks Centre to set up a green regulator for projects

Brief

Jagan assets case: how BCCI chief's cement firm got favours

CBI chargesheet says India Cements invested Rs 140 crore in Bharati Cements, owned by Jagan, for water allocations, limestone mining lease

World's longest underground river in Mexico

International banks lobby for Lafarge

Amounts to influencing ongoing Supreme Court case, say activists

Mexico's Chihuahuan desert holds some of the largest natural crytals

Meghalaya limestone quarries closed

FLIP SIDE

Where’s the land for 8 per cent forever growth? Where’s the water?  

Mined to death: an elegy for the rivers of Meghalaya

The rivers in the Jaintia Hills have turned deep blue; mines and cement factories have killed all fish and aquatic life in them

Quarrying for trouble

Controversy over Himachal limestone mining The subject of limestone mining in ecologically fragile Himachal Pradesh has become a political …

Rajasthan's kunds get undesirable makeover

Curse of limestone

Farmers from 12 Rajasthan villages refuse to part with fertile land for cement companies

Cherrapunjee Now a wet desert