Wash and melt: Idol immersion in Bengal turns a green leaf
Manpower minimised, water used in the process recycled; environmentalists hail the model, but implementation under cloud
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 28, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
NGT orders shut 15 chemical industrial units in Haryana for flouting norms
Experts express concern, point at state pollution control board for poor implementation
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 27, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Only 9 pollution control bodies share details of public hearings online: CSE transparency index
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Andaman & Nicobar, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu and Uttar Pradesh share no …
COVID-19 will place India’s biomedical waste management under terrible strain
Under-reporting, poor segregation and lack of awareness ail India’s COVID-19 waste management. The pressure is set to further increase with …
Biomass pellets: CPCB’s revised grants highly inadequate to close demand-supply gap
CPCB has underestimated the cost of setting up a pellet manufacturing unit, say experts
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2023)
COVID-19: Disposing biomedical waste Bengal’s challenge at hand
The state is yet to follow CPCB guidelines on collection of biomedical waste of quarantined people
Reviving NCR’s air: CAQM submits action plan to NGT, mostly in line with CSE recommendations
The action plan incorporates the updating of emission inventories and source apportionment studies across the entire NCR
Deocha-Pachami mining project: Compensation disbursal begins but details of plan hazy
A total of 203 landowners have received job letters and compensation, said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
India urgently needs certification system for industrial emissions monitoring devices
India can take a leaf out of the approach by Europe, US
STPs in 3 Punjab towns lying defunct: NGT monitoring committee
Poor performance of sewage treatment plants due to delayed payment by municipal bodies, monitoring committee report to NGT
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 4, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 16, 2020)
Govt's fast tracking of draft rules on antibiotic residues commendable
It will position India as a responsible nation tackling antimicrobial resistance, besides improving conditions in preventing the menace
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 3-7, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 27-31, 2020)
As told to Parliament (July 22, 2021): All Indian villages open-defecation free
All that was discussed in the Houses through the day
Unchecked tyre recycling units wreak environmental havoc
Only 46% of tyre pyrolysis oil units in the country comply with norms
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 12, 2020)
Buying time? West Bengal government sets up panel as explosions in illegal firecracker factories kill 16
Three back-to-back explosions; Green activists say priority should be to close illegal units
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 2, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 19, 2020)
Has COVID-19 lockdown really helped Yamuna health in Delhi?
Domestic sewage comprises 80% of pollution load and continues to get discharged into the river