Paper tiger? Punjab Pollution Control Board not able to recover environmental fines imposed in last 2 years
Punjab government’s move is a mockery of the law, at a time when environmental pollution is becoming deadly and dangerous
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 6, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
How transparent are India’s pollution control boards? Here is CSE’s ranking
Odisha and Telangana top the list with the highest transparency; Andaman & Nicobar, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh ranked lowest
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (December 14-21)
You can’t deprive people of food, livelihood: HC on UP slaughterhouse crackdown
Facilitating operations of legal slaughterhouses is important as that’s related to food and food habits, which is undisputedly connected …
Uttar Pradesh: drought of solutions to a flood of challenges
Poor health infrastructure, energy poverty and agrarian crisis are jostling each other to garner attention of new government
Pollution control boards aren’t underfunded but investing their surplus into fixed deposits: Report
An amount of Rs 2,893 crore found to be invested in fixed deposits by 10 pollution regulators
District judge to supervise next public hearing on Maliparbat bauxite mine in Koraput
Usually district magistrate or the additional district magistrate presides over public hearings
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 2, 2022)
Sugar unit infringes environmental norms: How does it affect lives in Amroha
The plea alleges that pollution from the unit puts in danger the health of 5,000 students and 0.1 million inhabitants of 15 villages
KSPCB has existed for 4 decades, but kept no record of pollution sources: CAG
This record, if kept, would have helped the pollution control board plan a better, cleaner tomorrow
High court eases loudspeaker ban
Knight Riders cheer; green activists see red
India’s pollution control boards were weakened over the last 14 years, as environment ministry lacks roadmap
Several initiatives were taken since 1984 to strengthen the pollution control boards & committees but were not implemented
How this landmark NGT order will shape the future of India's pollution control bodies
The latest NGT judgement is a fresh start to the initiative of strengthening pollution control boards
NGT sends notices to THDC, pollution control board on coal-fired power plant in Uttar Pradesh
Questions have been raised over procedural irregularities in granting environmental clearance
Madras High Court directs to restrict plastic flag use in elections
The court has asked the Election Commission to come up with a concrete plan to curtail their usage
NGT slams West Bengal’s Bakreshwar thermal plant for fly ash pollution
Residents from surrounding villages say the ash pond is filled above capacity, causing ash to flow into rivers
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 16, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 24, 2020)
Sterlite typifies all that's wrong with environmental governance in India
Sterlite Copper's survival despite being shutdown five times in the past two decades owes much to India's malleable regulatory authorities
NGT terminates chairmen of pollution control boards in 10 states
The bench says that the chairpersons are not appropriately qualified to head an important body like SPCB
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 1, 2022)
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
Bihar government bans sand mining near river bridges
Move to check illegal sand mining that is destroying foundations of bridges, disturbing water flow of rivers
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 24, 2020)