Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 18, 2020)

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 (December 23, 2019)

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

Rewind 2018: State of the air India breathes

Here are the major policies framed, studies conducted and steps taken in the last year over air and its quality

Uttarakhand floods: NGT notice to Alaknanda Hydropower Company for damage to Srinagar town

Construction debris dumped by project developer near dam and delay in opening flood gates responsible for large-scale damage, says petition

Expert panel report on de-watering for real estate projects in Noida upsets green activists

Report submitted by Noida authority to National Green Tribunal specifically justifies de-watering for Supertech Supernova project

Nirma’s dream hangs in balance

National Green Tribunal defers its decision on Nirma’s controversial cement plant project to October-end

Plachimada Bill: Centre asks Kerala to approach National Green Tribunal

Tribunal will not consider cases more than five years old, point out victims and activists

Sardar Patel statue project has no green clearance: activists

 MoEF asked to declare Statue of Unity project illegal and stop construction

Ban on illegal mining ineffective

It has only increased cost of illegally sourced construction material

NGT raps civic bodies, Delhi Metro for lying on cleaning debris from Yamuna banks

Wants fresh affidavits by May 7

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 …

Village throws a googly

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 14, 2023)

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 (August 3, 2020)

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

Thermal power plants in Singrauli, Sonbhadra under NGT radar again

In July 14, 2020 order, the tribunal orders remedial action against thermal power plants; directs NTPC Vindhyachal to pay Rs 10 cr in …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 11, 2020)

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

NGT judgement on Okhla waste plant: no lessons learned

National Green Tribunal has, once again, made clear that it advocates a centralised system for waste processing which may not serve a long-term …

Green tribunal bans quarrying in Sariska

Forest department found 84 stone and marble quarries operating within the tiger reserve and its buffer zone

Green tribunal asks Odisha to pass order on tree-felling for POSCO

Says states must apply its mind and pass order in accordance with Forest Conservation Act

The fortnight in brief

Himachal villages are first to claim forests rights, J&K's Russian poplars to be felled, Delhi's increasing appetite for power …

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

POSCO project may kick off this year despite green tribunal order

India’s largest FDI might downsize initially, to get going

Benefit interrupted

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 2, 2020)

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