An ordeal by water

Village throws a googly

Remote Eklehara has challenged what can be classified as a bio-resource and who should benefit from its use

Carting away sand

Labourers illegally mine beach sand in Ratnagiri, removing the buffer between ocean and human habitat

People's power

Farmers in Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Gare village have floated a company to assert their rights over natural resources and resist land acquisiton …

Benefit interrupted

Biodiversity authority prepares a weak draft of guidelines on access and benefit sharing of natural resources

Parched capital

While Delhi struggles to make rainwater harvesting compulsory even after 13 years of amending byelaws, Chennai shows the way

Minor no more

Environment ministry regulates mining of minor minerals, finally

Experts without expertise

National Green Tribunal disapproves appointment of people without relevant experience to expert appraisal committees, asks environment ministry …

An order of chaos

National Green Tribunal's decision to declare an area of 10 km radius around Okhla Bird Sanctuary as ecologically sensitive has put the future …

Tribunal on trial

It has been four years since the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Act was passed by Parliament for effective and expeditious disposal of cases …

Where river runs black

Industries from far and near dump untreated toxic effluents near Ulhasnagar, choking a river and sickening people

NGT fines Gangakhed sugar factory for polluting fishing lake, canal in Maharashtra

National Green Tribunal asks sugar factory in Parbhani district to pay Rs 5 lakh to restore Mannat lake and canal polluted with molasses and …

Green tribunal spells its mandate

Forest bureaucracy contended that clearance by the Centre can’t be challenged

'NGT must have suo motu powers'

Justice Swatanter Kumar has been chairing the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for nearly two years now. In an interview to Down To Earth, he speaks …

An ordeal by water

Green tribunal relief to Noida company closed by pollution board

Order to resume operations follows joint inspection that found Modern Door Devices was adhering to norms

Sand seized by Durga Shakti stolen from district collectorate's custody

Illegally mined sand worth Rs 8 crore had been seized from a close aide of Samajwadi Party bigwig Narendra Bhati; Green Tribunal directs night …

National Green Tribunal to hear all environmental cases: Supreme Court

Apex court order may create problems for the already understaffed and overworked tribunal

MoEF challenges penalty on it for allowing industries to function near Kaziranga

Appeal to Supreme Court says Assam government responsible for implementing notification on no-development zone around national park

Okhla waste to energy plant: residents allege bias in inspections

Local commissioner appointed by green tribunal carrying out inspections when plant not running full capacity, say residents

Graziers protest land diversion

The last remaining contiguous grasslands in Karnataka diverted for development

Green tribunal suspends environment clearance of Scania sponge iron plant in Raigarh

Environment ministry granted clearance even though mandatory public consultations were not held

Sterlite fined Rs 100 crore

Supreme Court fines Sterlite Industries for polluting environment but refuses to shut it

POSCO asked to revise plans for fresh environment clearance

Environment ministry's expert committee seeks new layout plan; fresh studies on environmental and social impact

Green tribunal fines appellant for frivolous litigation

Baijnath Prajapati had challenged the environmental clearance granted to a thermal power plant in Madhya Pradesh but later withdrew his plea