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

Duty on minor produce will violate forest rights: Experts

The first draft to amend Indian Forest Act proposes to impose duty on minor produce that several tribals depend on for livelihood

'Sir… if we define forests, it could create many loopholes'

Union forest ministry’s reply to parliamentary committee’s query on absence of a clear definition of forests  

India and France invite countries to join International Solar Alliance

The initiative by the developing world that claims to address solar energy needs will be introduced at COP21

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

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

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

Gram sabha gets a boost

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

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 …

Meaning of 'forest' set to change in India

How should a 'forest' be defined in India? The Union ministry of environment and forests is currently preoccupied with this question. Placing …

Rising sea levels and tidal erosion eating up Sunderbans

Rising sea levels are real. A trip to the Sunderbans, in the Bay of Bengal, shows how devastating it can be in tandem with insidious tidal erosion.…

Leverage scrappage investments for bigger gains

An important step forward. Needs firmer commitments on incentives for green recovery