Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 3, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 23, 2019)
Games people play
Institutions that would help resolve conflicts and take credible decisions have been weakened
NGT slaps Rs 25 crore on company for damaging mudflats, mangroves
Das Offshore reclaimed 25 hectares of the inter-tidal region of the Arabian Sea in Raigad district
Jairam Ramesh reacts strongly to NGT censure over approving Adani coal mine
Former environment minister gives reasons for overruling forest advisory committee recommendations on forestland diversion for mining in the …
National Green Tribunal stays covering of drains in South Delhi
Orders setting up of an expert panel to deliberate whether drains should be covered or not
Karnataka grasslands are potential habitat for bustards: MoEF to green tribunal
Union environment ministry says development work on Amrit Mahal Kaval grasslands violate green laws
Rs 25,000 fine on NHAI, BRO for not answering queries on roads in Uttarakhand
Green tribunal pulls up highway authority for claiming it is not in charge of any highway in the state where there are chances of landslide
Bailable warrant against top official of ET Infra for defying green tribunal
Failed to respond to notice to appear before tribunal; case relates to violation of ban on using groundwater for construction
Colonies on floodplains of Yamuna, Hindon: green tribunal issues notices to Centre, states
Petition alleges land mafia encroached floodplains in collusion with administration officials
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Experts irked over revised structure of Central Empowered Committee
New notification gives unprecedented powers to central government
Curb colossal ecological destruction during Char Dham Yatra: NGT-appointed panel
The NGT will assess the report when it hears the matter January 25, 2023
‘Cleaner fuel the way ahead’: NGT limits brick kiln operations in Delhi-NCR
The order, however, stated implementation concerns
Sterlite Copper in Thoothukudi to remain shut: Madras HC
It also dismissed all petitions for the plant to resume operations
Ayodhya airport expansion and discharge of water from Coca-Cola factory put villagers in a fix
Villages drowning after rains due to airport expansion while polluted water destroying fields, allege locals
Climate change in North East: Arunachal’s Seijosa shows connect between shifting patterns, declining biodiversity
Loss in forest cover, change in rainfall patterns, human interventions may together set in motion irreversible patterns
Meat Matters
Why slaughterhouses have to be "illegal" to be sustainable and why farmers have to give up their cattle for survival
Supreme Court asks NGT to monitor industrial units polluting Ganga
Apex court had recently asked government to explain why Central Pollution Control Board has no chairperson for the past six months
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NGT scraps 2017 ministry note easing sewage treatment norms
The standards were diluted by the notification that permitted more pollutants than what was allowed under the 2015 CPCB draft