Governance failure

How agencies meant to regulate mining conspired in the loot

Aravallis undermined

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 14, 2020)

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

Serial polluter

Towards zero discharge

Two textile cities, Tirupur and Ludhiana, explore ways to stop effluent discharge into streams

Maharashtra, pollution board differ on Dow plant

CPCB flags railway stations on green parameters

The Central Pollution Control Board assessed 36 stations or 5% of the major stations in India

Action against polluting units gives Goa villagers some relief

Mumbai port's coal handling jeopardises public health

Dangerous business

Relief for endosulfan victims

Kerala government presses for a nation-wide ban on the pesticide

Rules of e-dump

Loopholes in new rules for electronic waste make it difficult to regulate informal sector

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

Gutter will sparkle

Ludhiana is going all out to clean up Buddha Nallah, the sole receptacle of its industrial filth

No more hospitals

Mormugao port expansion: public hearing adjourned third time

Analysis by non-profit Centre for Science and Environment reveals flaws in the project’s environmental impact assessment

Steeled up

Unable to bear pollution any longer, people in Kotdwar force Uttarakhand to commission an independent assessment of steel factories in the region

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

Call the monitor

Mills pollute Uttaranchal hills

A measure of pollution

Is sewage farming safe?

Madhya Pradesh's order to destroy crops cultivated using sewage has triggered a debate over the age old practice of using wastewater for irrigation

One river, two origins

Industrialists are trying to push the origin of the Nag river downstream to capture its upper stretch for real estate business

War over waste

People of Bengaluru pitch a battle against civic body which has neglected mounting piles of garbage

No land for best option: composting

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala, does not have a municipal waste-treatment facility. Its only plant to treat solid waste, located …