Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 28, 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 (July 8, 2019)

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

Okhla waste-energy plant gets show cause notice

The Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company has been given 15 days to respond why they defied the terms of the Environment Clearance

Green tribunal orders closure of 12 Hauz Khas village eateries

Delhi Pollution Control Committee directed to pass orders on their applications for consent to operate within two weeks

Back to the source

Recharging aquifers with treated wastewater is the only hope to meet the water needs of a growing urban population

The town farmers built

Green fruits

Officials and industries honoured for their ecofriendly initiatives

Fatally fixated

NGT pulls up UP municipalities for sewage discharge into Ganga

The tribunal refuses to accept financial crunch as the reason behind the nagar palikas polluting the river

First birthday

Although setting up of the EPA did result in policies to control pollution, political interference has blunted its effectiveness

Fishy deaths

Municipal commissioner fined over pollution

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 9, 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 (April 18, 2019)

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

The precarious geopolitics of phosphorous

Both nitrogen and phosphorous are essential to life. Lynchpins both to global food production, circulating through synthesis or export and then …

Ganga returns to its sluggish, dirty state

Kumbh over, freshwater release is discontinued; tanneries resume operations

Waste, by any other name...

US municipalities to abolish rights of corporations

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Hauz Khas village restaurants under scanner for spewing untreated sewage

Eight out of 34 restaurants in the area have been operating without any clearance

Sewage treatment wetland in making

IARI develops wetlands that treat sewage water for irrigation

Why excreta matters

Banning manual scavenging in India: A long, complex passage

Union government is set to introduce The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (Amendment) Bill, 2020, in …

Ami’s dirty picture

The river Ami in district Gorakhpur, once known for its water that tasted as sweet as mangoes is today a receptacle of filth, sewage and …