Whiff of scam in Orissa mines

Opposition demands CBI probe

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 6, 2019)

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

Online leash on polluting industries

60,000 units will file environmental statement on Internet  

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (December 14-21)

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

You can’t deprive people of food, livelihood: HC on UP slaughterhouse crackdown

Facilitating operations of legal slaughterhouses is important as that’s related to food and food habits, which is undisputedly connected …

Uttar Pradesh: drought of solutions to a flood of challenges

Poor health infrastructure, energy poverty and agrarian crisis are jostling each other to garner attention of new government

Toxic ship cannot beach at Alang

KSPCB has existed for 4 decades, but kept no record of pollution sources: CAG

This record, if kept, would have helped the pollution control board plan a better, cleaner tomorrow

New plastic waste management rules leave out vital points

One aspect that was not dealt with was the informal sector of waste collection

Court cracks down

High court eases loudspeaker ban

Knight Riders cheer; green activists see red

NGT sends notices to THDC, pollution control board on coal-fired power plant in Uttar Pradesh

Questions have been raised over procedural irregularities in granting environmental clearance

Madras High Court directs to restrict plastic flag use in elections

The court has asked the Election Commission to come up with a concrete plan to curtail their usage

NGT slams West Bengal’s Bakreshwar thermal plant for fly ash pollution

Residents from surrounding villages say the ash pond is filled above capacity, causing ash to flow into rivers

Colours not so natural

Noamundi is easy to mine

व्यवस्था का मारा ई-कचरा

ई-कचरा उत्पादक देशों में भारत पांचवें स्थान पर है, लेकिन देश में पैदा हाेने वाले इस कचरे को लेकर कोई सरकारी आंकड़े उपलब्ध नहीं ...

Sterlite typifies all that's wrong with environmental governance in India

Sterlite Copper's survival despite being shutdown five times in the past two decades owes much to India's malleable regulatory authorities

NGT terminates chairmen of pollution control boards in 10 states

The bench says that the chairpersons are not appropriately qualified to head an important body like SPCB

Governance matters

It is time we focused on strengthening the capacity of regulatory agencies

Unsound ways

Silica in Assam's forest

A red politician who saw opportunity in green

A chief minister who gave autonomy to environment regulators

NGT orders closure of 69 industrial areas

Continued polluting activities are criminal offences under the law of the land, the tribunal said in its order

Show cause notices to 11 Nashik factories for polluting Godavari

The plastic and food processing factories don’t have proper effluent treatment system