Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

Does the Supreme Court order mean eviction of forest dwellers right away?

Some reasons why the rejection of FRA does not amount to a claimant being an encroacher

MoEF halts civil work to raise level of Dhari Devi temple for Alaknanda dam

Hydropower project developer asked to wait for Supreme Court decision  

Can forest clearance grantees have their names added in record of rights, MoEF&CC asks states

The environment ministry on February 22 wrote to all states, seeking their views on the matter, according to documents

MPs can drive home policy changes — by asking the right questions

Question on non-compliance by thermal power plants in Rajya Sabha should have driven home a bigger point. Problem, however, was the question …

Govt's fast tracking of draft rules on antibiotic residues commendable

It will position India as a responsible nation tackling antimicrobial resistance, besides improving conditions in preventing the menace 

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 12-16)

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

India has climate targets for 2030

Twenty years from now, India's per capita greenhouse gas emissions will be below the 2005 global average of 4.22 tonnes CO2-equivalent

Green clearance test for NDA

Green rupee in a mess

Cheated for bauxite

Andhra Pradesh circumvents all regulations to mine bauxite from tribal land

POSCO clearance illegal: activists

Say the claims made by Odisha government are barefaced lies

Freeing bamboo from the state

A recent notification making bamboo a minor forest produce can only be the first step

Weak rules, weaker regulators

Factories flout emission standards at will

In Short

Ranbaxy accused of not following court orders

Polavaram project in legal wrangle

Authorities clueless Carcinogen NP in a large number of products in India.

Power ministry gets a jolt

Right of way

More cities critically polluted

Tighter norms make air we breathe more poisonous

Gram sabha gets a boost

Supreme Court asks gram sabhas to see if Vedanta’s bauxite mine harms religious rights

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

Loopholes in the Biological Diversity Act being used to export India’s genetic material

POSCO gets final approval

Environment ministry endorses state government’s claim that there are no forest rights to be settled in the project area

Nirma whitewash

Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect …