Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
As many as 110 mine owners are in dock for violation of EP Act, 1986 Acting tough on the mine lessees for flouting Environment (Protection) Act, the Odisha forest and environment ministry has issued instructions to the collectors of mineral rich districts to file prosecution immediately. The captive miners facing …
With an inquiry finding a large number of mines flouting environmental laws in the state, Odisha government has asked the collectors of at least six mineral rich districts to file cases against them. Based on the findings of Justice M B Shah Commission of Enquiry, Forest and Environment secretary R …
As many as 110 mine owners are in dock for violation of Environmental Protection Act, 1986 Acting tough on the mine lessees for flouting Environment (Protection) Act, the Odisha forest and environment ministry has issued clear instructions to the collectors of mineral rich districts to file prosecution immediately. The captive …
KANPUR: Illegal sand mining in the riverbeds of the Yamuna and Sindh rivers along the Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pradesh border in the region is continuing in blatant violation of the Supreme Court's February 2012 ruling. Sand, illegally extracted in Etawah, Jalaun and Fatehpur is being used to fuel construction activities in …
Coffee planters in Karnataka's Kodagu district are an apprehensive lot. They believe the acceptance of the Kasturirangan report to conserve Western Ghats will make them helplessly watch their disease-afflicted crop wither away for it bans the use of pesticides in their area. They feel they may not be able to …
In what is being seen as the first such effort to root out water mafia, the Delhi Jal Board’s (DJB) special taskforce carried out a massive operation in Sangam Vihar and Deoli village in South Delhi. It is the task force’s second recommendation in a week. The first recommendation was …
The Vidarbha Environmental Action Group (VEAG) has hailed Supreme Court judgment directing the Union government to set up the national environment regulator and its offices in all the states by March 31. Sudhir Paliwal, convener of VEAG, said justice AK Patnaik, justice SS Nijjar and justice Ibrahim Kalifullah also directed …
A day after the Supreme Court set a March 31 deadline for establishing an environment regulator, the government said it was examining the order to work out how to proceed. The environment ministry was unwilling to disclose its plan of action. However, officials indicated that the government would be able …
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to set up within three months a national environment regulator with the power to appraise and clear projects. The regulator would be created under Section 3(3) of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, for appraising projects, enforcing environmental conditions and to impose penalties …
The Supreme Court today set a stiff less than 3-month deadline for the Centre for setting up a National Regulator with “offices in as many states as possible” under the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 to clear mining and other projects in forest areas. A three-member Green Bench of the SC …
In a major blow to the Centre's election year decision to speed up environmental clearance to long pending projects, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the government to appoint a national regulator which would take up comprehensive environmental impact assessment (EIA) of projects. Brushing aside the Centre's opposition to a …
For independent, transparent appraisal & approval of projects The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to appoint a Regulator with offices in States under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for appraising projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approvals and imposing penalties on polluters. A Green Bench of Justices A.K. Patnaik, …
Supreme Court has asked the environment ministry to set up national environment regulator with office in every state to “appraise and monitor” the process for granting green clearances and how the regulations are complied with. Read text of this order dated 6 Jan 2014. RELATED CONTENT In-court: Supreme Court judgement …
New Delhi: The Union environment ministry has indicted ONGC for the oil spill that was reported off the Uran coast near Mumbai in October. It has asked the petroleum ministry to take action against those responsible for not adhering to crucial monitoring norms in the public sector oil major despite …
With Ramesh and Natarajan ousted, many fear the MoEF may go back to being a puppet ministry Is the suspected expulsion of Jayanthi Natarajan from the environment portfolio for purportedly halting projects worth Rs 10 lakh crore a step back from the nascent effort made by the UPA government to …
This is an eco-sensitive zone, involving massive infrastructure, they say Around 50 environmentalists from across the country have written to the Union Environment Ministry that Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Statue of Unity, envisaging a 182- metre statue of Sardar Patel inside Narmada river, 3.2 km downstream of Sardar …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatkumar K. Patel Vs MoEF Ors. regarding proposed 5000 hectare port based multi-product SEZ in Kandla and Tuna area of Gandhidham, Bhuj, Gujrat. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/judgment/552013(App)(WZ)_13Dec2013_final_order.pdf
Mounting fears by anxious people over possible eviction from their land led to an uproar at a hearing by the expert committee on Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats in Kottayam, which prompted the state government to retract its previous order and issue a clarified order on Saturday. Yet it …
The Environment ministry said it has approved the phase III of Yamuna Action Plan (YAP) for Delhi besides sanctioning two projects of pollution abatement for the river in Sonepat and Panipat in Haryana. "The YAP Phase III project for Delhi has been approved by the ministry at an estimated cost …
Its earlier order not yet complied with, the Bombay High Court Monday asked the state's urban development department (UDD) to issue a circular within a week to all municipal corporations and zilla parishads instructing them to disallow construction on wetlands. The court had on October 14 this year directed the …
