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
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
MoEF expert panel recommends moratorium on mining, power projects in Konkan
Report kept in wraps calls attention to adverse environmental and social impacts of ongoing industrial activities
‘Lanco public hearing rigged’
Farmers accuse power company of registering bogus speakers, question timing of public hearing with sowing season
Supreme Court petitioned to stall proposed nuclear plants
Former bureaucrats, scientists, say government pushing dangerous nuclear power programme without assessing safety or comparing cost with …
Lessons from a pandemic: Urgency for climate action
Much like the claimed behaviour of an ostrich burying its head underground in the face of risk, we demonstrate our capacity to ignore risks like …
Adani project in Mundra has violated environmental norms: MoEF committee report
Report recommends reform of coastal zone regulations, establishment of environment restoration fund
Tata Mundra power project blamed for falling fish catch
Project yet to become fully functional has already destroyed creeks and mangroves, says report
Wildlife during a pandemic: The other side of the coin
Instances of wild animals entering urban landscapes were reported the world over. But was everything about the lockdown hunky-dory for them?
‘EIAs of mining projects have become a farce’
Christopher Albin-Lackey, senior researcher with New York-based non-profit Human Rights Watch (HRW), has documented the large-scale environmental …