Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 20, 2022)
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 (September 30, 2022)
Climate change in North East: Arunachal’s Seijosa shows connect between shifting patterns, declining biodiversity
Loss in forest cover, change in rainfall patterns, human interventions may together set in motion irreversible patterns
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 17, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 8, 2020)
NGT scraps 2017 ministry note easing sewage treatment norms
The standards were diluted by the notification that permitted more pollutants than what was allowed under the 2015 CPCB draft
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 15-19)
Meat Matters
Why slaughterhouses have to be "illegal" to be sustainable and why farmers have to give up their cattle for survival
Is Rs 25 lakh compensation enough for Okhla waste-to-energy plant?
The facility has been allegedly emitting various pollutants for years including carcinogens such as furans and dioxins
Supreme Court asks NGT to monitor industrial units polluting Ganga
Apex court had recently asked government to explain why Central Pollution Control Board has no chairperson for the past six months
Carting away sand
Labourers illegally mine beach sand in Ratnagiri, removing the buffer between ocean and human habitat
NGT steps in to save Kanha tiger from small-scale mines
Directs state to evaluate if cumulative EIA is required for the dolomite mines bordering tiger habitat
Pollution may be higher in Kolkata this Diwali
Noise level standards were relaxed for firecrackers in West Bengal following recent orders of the National Green Tribunal
Baghjan blowout, fire could have been prevented: Report
There were deviations from standard operating procedure and deficiency in understanding gravity of operations, the report submitted to the NGT said
Thermal power plants are still not disposing of fly ash properly, NGT cases show
These cases show it is imperative to bridge the gap between legal mandates and their execution
NGT probe into cruise operating in Bhopal Ramsar wetland
Pollution control authorities directed to monitor contamination by ship periodically
SC stays own decision to transfer environmental cases from high courts to green tribunal
Adarsh housing case underscores lack of clarity on which cases can be decided by NGT
Green tribunal stays felling of mangroves in Gujarat
Complaint alleges large-scale destruction and diversion of mangroves to industry
An ordeal by water
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 18, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 6, 2020)
American air pollution laws: A history of constant amendments
Despite many issues that American air pollution norms have, there is a certain level of merit in the system
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 13, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 11, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 28, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal