Polarisation and anarchy

Environmental challenges have grown manifold in past five years, but capacity of institutions to deal with them has decreased in same proportion

Supreme Court not inclined to hear plea for stay on nuclear plants

Petitioners seek time to produce documents showing they have exhausted all other avenues of grievance redressal

Misled about water

VidarbhaÔÇÖs farmers protest the Maharashtra governmentÔÇÖs attempt to build yet another thermal power plant by depriving …

Uttar Pradesh is falling short of solar energy targets; here’s why

The state has the highest electricity demand, but target of 22,000 MW solar power by 2026-27 unrealistic at current pace

Carbon smart

Algae can help check rising carbon levels in the environment

How power can be cleaned

Any talk of “cleaning” coal to make it less damaging is untenable

World Bank axes coal-power funds

While India is unfazed by the decision, other developing countries may be hit hard

If disaster strikes

Is India ready for a Japan-like catastrophe?

Courting controversy

Ram Naik passes a death sentence for Dahanu's fragile ecology

Crisis of governance

People in urban scheduled areas suffer as Centre fails to legislate

What does it all add up to?

Cumulative environmental impact of 745 projects

Clearance based on false claims

Panel confirms Sompeta and Bhavanapadu thermal project sites are wetlands

GMR jumps the gun

Begins constructing power plant in Chhattisgarh, illegally

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (November 8-13, 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 …

Coal needs modern technology for sustainability, say experts

Different countries share their experience with coal-generated energy at CSE's coal conference

American thermal power plants under mercury regulation

US Environmental Protection Agency's mercury and air toxics standards will be effective from December 2014

Southeast Asians worried about food security, extreme weather events, shows climate survey 

ASEAN countries must stop building new coal plants, say over half the respondents 

Full extent of carbon emissions from fossil-fuelled power plants underestimated

Current accounting methods do not consider life-long emissions

Reliance’s unusual reward

It acquires CDM benefit for its business-as-usual power project in Jharkhand

A tsunami of questions

Four murders and a power plant

See the light

Jindal pays for flouting law

Constructs Chhattisgarh plant without clearance

‘Coal emissions nourish trees’

Environment ministry pushes Jindal power plants in Konkan

THERMAL POWER

Power plants consumed 530 million tonnes of coal in 2014-15, which is around three-fourths of the total coal use in the country