Parliamentary panel underlines lack of quality data on air pollution in smaller cities

Panel suggested prioritising funds to install systems for monitoring air quality in smaller cities and towns; called for transparency in …

States with more than 75% forest cover won't have to divert revenue land

Forest Advisory Committee decided this while suggesting that instead states with deficient green land should divert their non-forest land …

MoEF&CC issues recommendations to improve environment clearance and monitoring process

The recommendations come after an audit report found delays in all stages of impact assessment and highlighted other gaps

Western Ghats: lessons in protection

India Inc’s new bogey

Industry raises the decibel against green clearances

Cleared at cost of biodiversity

Environment ministry clears hydro project rejected twice by its advisory committee

Hazardous delay

Environment ministry submits unclear status report on hazardous waste directives

The bogey of green clearances

Auto yes to coal

High powered panel recommends freeing coal blocks in forests

In the wrong ministry?

Biotech Regulatory Authority will have too much power, no checks

Vedanta falters in Odisha

High court upholds Centre’s decision, rejects refinery expansion

Workers continue to suffer at Alang due to government apathy

Centre says yes to Athirapally project in Kerala

Disquiet in Dibang

Bauxite mines in Andhra Pradesh draw tribals' ire

Pug marks hide the truth

Supreme Court criticized for giving clearance to Bt Brinjal

Central Water Commission overestimates the country's usable water resources

Clampdown on Vedanta

Alumina refinery’s illegal expansion under scanner

Displaced for nothing

First Asiatic lion, then cheetah: officials struggle to decide which animal to introduce, and when, in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary. But they evict …

Test tube brinjal

Indian regulators are keen to clear Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation. This would be India’s first genetically modified food crop. If …

NEAA cancels environmental clearance to Vedanta bauxite mining

In three separate decisions says no to Vedanta, Kotli-Behl but approves Bhavanapadu power plant

Licence to mine

Supreme Court allows conditional resumption of iron ore mining in Goa

Minor no more

Environment ministry regulates mining of minor minerals, finally

Reserved for exploitation?

Karnataka repeatedly refuses to declare its forests in Western Ghats inviolate