Jaypee powers ahead in Himachal

‘Company built power plant illegally; managed clearance’  

Cobalt-60 is in Delhi

Authorities unsure how to check entry of radioactive material in scrap

Sand mining lobby uses tricks to evade MoEF scrutiny

Ministry panel visiting Greater Noida finds even leased mining areas do not have any environment clearance

Perilous port

Proposed seaport in Vizhinjam can spell disaster for fishers, tourism and biodiversity in Kerala

Centre pitches for Kerala

Environment ministry wants to revoke Karnataka’s ban on night traffic in Bandipur  

Bay in distress

A proposed shipyard threatens the rich biodiversity of a south Goa bay, but government is unmoved

Lafarge’s fait accompli

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

License to pollute : Inefficient Kota thermal power station allowed to function by Rajasthan

Earlier, the government was planning to retire two units of the plant June 30. However, protests by local politicians and the employees …

Environment ministry order bans use of plastic packaging for tobacco, gutkha

The ministry passed its order after the companies failed to adhere to the Supreme Court directive asking them to adhere to the new Plastic Waste …

Bhupender Yadav releases DTE’s State of India’s Environment 2022

Climate change, desertification and the sustainability-affordability linkage three extremely critical issues facing India today

Forest Rights Act: Evicting the gaps

To protect traditional forest dwellers, the Forest Rights Act, 2006, needs to be enforced properly and not be used against them

MoEF&CC takes back advisory to avoid honeycombing of forest land under FRA

An official from the environment ministry says the advisory was withdrawn as there is no provision under the Forest Rights Act to club land together

Rules to implement Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act to be finalised by January 3

The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act was passed to restore forest cover which was lost due to diversion of forest land

SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

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

Smaller eco zone irks ministry

Central Empowered Committee wants to reduce eco-sensitive zones around protected areas

Irongate opened

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

Mumbai’s second sea link unlikely

Coastal road could be built to link Worli to Haji Ali

Blue Lady docks in Gujarat but no word on breaking yet

Garbage to energy plans

Malls in Ahmedabad violate green norms

‘You may like to make sure that PIL does not succeed’

State wildlife warden sends friendly warning to tourism industry

Don’t make a mash of it

Happily uprooted

A well-calculated compensation plan eases relocation pain of forest dwellers from the core area of Melghat Tiger Reserve

Blatant lies for laterite

Andhra pollution control board holds public hearing for a project in Schedule Five area  

Governance failure

How agencies meant to regulate mining conspired in the loot