Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 1, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Staff crunch, expanded mandate hitting pollution control Boards’ performance, finds report
Regulatory scrutiny of polluting sources affected; over 9 agencies have over 40% positions vacant
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 24, 2020)
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
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2023)
Only 9 pollution control bodies share details of public hearings online: CSE transparency index
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Andaman & Nicobar, Puducherry, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu and Uttar Pradesh share no …
Dry cleaning Hussainsagar
Telangana plans to first empty Hyderabad's great lake and then refill it with rainwater. Experts say it is nothing but a harebrained plan
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 4, 2023)
Gaurav Gogoi to table bill for changing air pollution law
Congress MP said updating 1981 legislation concerning air pollution was need of the hour
Chhattisgarh green board to make access to emissions data more user-friendly
Last year, CSE had found that only 19 of 35 pollution control boards were displaying emissions data in the public domain
STPs in 3 Punjab towns lying defunct: NGT monitoring committee
Poor performance of sewage treatment plants due to delayed payment by municipal bodies, monitoring committee report to NGT
Buying time? West Bengal government sets up panel as explosions in illegal firecracker factories kill 16
Three back-to-back explosions; Green activists say priority should be to close illegal units
Punjab extends time for brick kiln conversion to September
Those operating kilns with older technology still have to pay a fine depending upon the capacity of kiln under the polluter pay principle
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 26, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 15, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 10, 2022)
Odisha stir against coal trucks emitting smoke: Nearly 170, including children, detained
The movement of coal trucks sparks pollution concerns; police claim no forceful detention of children
COVID-19 lockdown: Rajasthan releases city-wise analysis of air pollution
Significant decrease observed in levels of PM10, PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide during lockdown period across all stations
Peripheral ring road project: Karnataka HC bars action on virtual hearing
HC issues notices to state authority; asks whether virtual hearings were sufficient and valid under procedure established under EIA, 2006
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 8, 2019)
Dyeing cities
Textile mills of Pali district in Rajasthan and Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu have an annual turnover of over Rs 20,000 crore. But the rivers passing …
Reform for reform’s sake
Without bottom-up rehauling National Environment Protection Agency will be more of the same
NGT orders closure of industrial units in Bellandur Lake area
No industry would be allowed to operate in the lake area unless effluent emissions are under permissible limits. Industries found violating the …
Transparent monitoring: Maharashtra pollution control board begins sharing emissions data on public domain
Sharing of CEMS data by state pollution control boards & committees in the public domain was mandated by Supreme Court in 2017
UPPCB chairman appointed in violation of NGT orders, claims activist
JPS Rathore — a former state BJP vice president — was also not qualified to hold the position of chairperson, the activist claimed