Haze, pollution causing low visibility over north India: Met department
This kind of fog, which is a mixture of photochemical smog and harmful greenhouse emissions, can trigger asthma and cardiac problems
MoEF failed to protect environment: Public Accounts Committee
Forest cover of India is just 21 per cent against the target of 33 per cent set by Planning Commission for 2012
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 30, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Delhi’s poor air days start, will only deteriorate
Dip in temperature, calm surface winds and steady increase in farm fires in Punjab and Haryana reason for poor air quality
No action plan by MoEF&CC to handle plastic waste, finds CAG
Coordination lacking with pollution control boards; Implementation of Plastic Waste Management Rules lacks teeth
Sanitation workers on COVID-19 front lines: How to save the warriors?
Several incidents in the last few months have shone spotlight on abysmal conditions under which sanitation workers function — without …
Pollution boards go slow on green tribunal order to close industries operating without consent
Confusion persists whether small industries having little pollution potential should be closed or not
World Environment Day 2023: CSE finds ground-level ozone pollution in Delhi-NCR all-year problem, persists at nights too
New Delhi and South Delhi areas were worst affected by ground-level ozone between March 1, 2023 and May 30, 2023
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 9, 2020)
Why NGT’s calls on restoration of water bodies is need of the hour
National Green Tribunal’s 2019 order asking states to identify, protect and restore water bodies underlines the urgency to save them
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 17-21, 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
India’s Minamata
Singrauli, the powerhouse of India with massive coal reserves and many thermal power plants, should have been prosperous. But it is poor and …
Yamuna pollution: green tribunal orders operation clean-up in Delhi
Order sets heavy penalties for polluters and asks for drains to be kept clear of encroachment
NGT orders probe into fly ash pollution in Singrauli
Further directions given to expedite clean water supply to residents by polluting industries
Delhi had only one good air quality day this winter by Beijing standards: CSE
Fresh number crunching by Centre for Science and Environment shows that if air quality parameters of Beijing or that of the US were to be applied …
Kaziranga’s no-development zone has 90 factories
Green tribunal orders closure of all industries that began operations after the zone was notified in 1996; others to use clean fuel
CPCB flags railway stations on green parameters
The Central Pollution Control Board assessed 36 stations or 5% of the major stations in India
Will Bengal allow high decibel firecrackers?
Activists fear noise control rules will be relaxed for manufacturers of firecrackers
Diwali 2022: Delhi air ‘very poor’, can worsen to ‘severe’
Farm stubble burning increased in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan; Firecracker ban in Delhi goes up in smoke too
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 22, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 16, 2023)
SC refuses to extend pollution norms deadline for power producers
The association of power producers sought extension to deadline for meeting pollution norms to 2024 from 2022
Prime Minister's trophy for steel plant overrides pollution concerns
CSE study had shown companies which bagged the award for best integrated steel plants have poor environmental performance and productivity record
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
Why better policies are needed for sewage water use in thermal power plants
Thermal power plants within 50 km of STPs are required to use treated sewage; but there has not been any positive move on ground