Experts propose various technologies for efficient coal usage at CSE Coal Conference

Technologies discussed include HELE, IGCC and CFBC

Villagers take on polluting plant

Dirty advance

World Bank axes coal-power funds

While India is unfazed by the decision, other developing countries may be hit hard

How power can be cleaned

Any talk of “cleaning” coal to make it less damaging is untenable

Carbon smart

Algae can help check rising carbon levels in the environment

Courting controversy

Ram Naik passes a death sentence for Dahanu's fragile ecology

Crisis of governance

People in urban scheduled areas suffer as Centre fails to legislate

What does it all add up to?

Cumulative environmental impact of 745 projects

Clearance based on false claims

Panel confirms Sompeta and Bhavanapadu thermal project sites are wetlands

GMR jumps the gun

Begins constructing power plant in Chhattisgarh, illegally

Joshimath crisis is a warning from the Himalayas

A development model based on local conditions and aspirations is necessary

Reliance’s unusual reward

It acquires CDM benefit for its business-as-usual power project in Jharkhand

Four murders and a power plant

See the light

Jindal pays for flouting law

Constructs Chhattisgarh plant without clearance

‘Coal emissions nourish trees’

Environment ministry pushes Jindal power plants in Konkan

Adani’s coal mine acquisition in Australia under scanner

Company failed to submit environmental track records to Australian environment ministry

Joshimath: What escalated the situation on the intervening night of January 2-3?

New leaks reported in several areas; closed tunnel in Tapovan may be the source

Thermal power generation set to expand six times

What it means

The flyash burden

Will the targets set for utilising flyash by power plants be met?

Minamata Convention: India skips historic meet

Officials mum on why no official representative went from India

Joshimath: Subsidence in several Uttarakhand villages since December 25, 2022

Down To Earth ground report finds widening cracks in remote villages around Joshimath

Pollution-hit Tuticorin salt manufacturers worried by food safety act being implemented

Fly ash from thermal power plants in the area settles on the salt; affects quality

Ashes to ashes

...or raw materials for the industries?