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

Dumping garbage in rivers is now a crime in Maharashtra

Bombay High Court orders municipalities to register cases and take action against anyone who violates the law

Unruffled flakes

Pig iron plant of Sesa Goa pollutes South Goa; firm says expansion will take care of problems

Who messed it up?

Guwahati indicts poor settlers for flash floods, ignores damage on wetlands by construction work

Defiling the sacred

How the environment --- sacred to Hindus --- is bearing the brunt of pollution in the name of religion

Invasion of tiger reserve

Are religious pilgrimages only about faith and religion?

For a clean ganga

Mercury in air, water

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  

Disciplining the enfants terrible of industry

Small is not always beautiful: Small-scale industries in India account for only 35 per cent of the country's industrial production, but their …

Pollution of Hinduisim

Simply put it is an amazing gap between theory and practice. Yet it is one of the main reasons why India's environment is as degraded as it is …

Instant quality check of rivers

Electronic sensors to monitor pollutants in Yamuna, Ganga

Uttaranchal Pollution Control Board contradicts itself on pollution in state

Dismal picture of Maharashtra's environment

The water supply data in rural areas

CETP employee in Gujarat sacked for exposing illegal discharge channels

Church of England sells Vedanta shares

Activists pressure church body to give up stake in metal company

NGT orders strict action against Delhi’s Yamuna-polluting industries

Despite several court orders and crores of rupees spent on cleaning the river, the Delhi stretch continues to be the most polluted

Courts act to protect floodplains

Centre dithers on banning encroachment in river zones

Rajasthan HC comes down hard on polluters in Barmer district

Public not heard

Officials unmoved by court order

Officials unmoved by court order

Behind polluted Indian river stretches, inadequate sewage treatment

Rivers and streams in 31 states and Union territories in India do not meet water quality criteria

River pollution, conservation: UP’s fishing community bears brunt

Regulations of industrial, municipal inflow in Ganga, at the centre of pollution mitigation policies, have dissociated rivers from riverine …

Time for new environmentalism

Wishing all our readers a happy World Environment Day, with the hope that the world will continue to work towards paying more than mere lip …

A tinge of green

Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just-concluded assembly elections.