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
NGT orders Singrauli polluters to provide clean drinking water to residents, or face closure
Directs industries in the coal and power hub to stop dumping industrial waste into Rihand reservoir and connected rivers
Gujarat pollution board washes hands of creating buffer zones around waste treatment facilities
Central Pollution Control Board guidelines, however, state that no construction activity can take place within 500 metre of treatment, storage …
Environment ministry rapped
Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes
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 …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
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
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
Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR high after Diwali
Despite cracker ban, the 24-hour average level of PM2.5 during Diwali and the morning after has been 397 mg per cubic metre, which is 6.6 times …
Dry cleaning Hussainsagar
Telangana plans to first empty Hyderabad's great lake and then refill it with rainwater. Experts say it is nothing but a harebrained plan
300 people fall ill after tanker discharges poisonous effluent into drain in Maharashtra
Untreated industrial effluents from industrial area regularly discharged into drain, say residents
Can we save Ganga?
The Ganga is getting political attention. What does it take to clean the river? Down To Earth team travels to the most polluted stretch of the …
Polluting units shut in Kaziranga
Green tribunal fines state, Centre for allowing stone crushers, brick kilns near Assam park
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
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
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 12-16)
Namami Gange: 5 reasons why Ganga will not be clean by 2020
Even after 4 years and an allotment of Rs 22,000 crore, Modi’s flagship programme is far from being a success
Delhi High Court questions Centre on junk food
Asks it to file affidavit in six weeks on whether it has framed policy to ban it in schools
Draft CAG report slams Andhra pollution control board for negligence
The report blames the board’s inaction for unchecked pollution of water bodies and deteriorating air quality
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