Environment

Say No to ‘Toxic Governance’: Arrest air pollution, not activists and protesters: NACEJ

The Delhi NCR Pollution crisis needs firm, well-implemented policy shifts and institutional action against prime causes of pollution, not citizens: Restore Fundamental Right to Breathe, says a nationwide alliance dedicated to the battle for a cleaner environment and against climate change.

New Normal: Increasing incidents of Industrial Accidents, Fire, Blasts & workplace disasters

Dilution of all environmental protection regulations, assiduously fought for coupled with an utter lack of transparency makes Indian workers completely vulnerable, Gujarat leads the way

Scrap mining projects in Hasdeo forests: Friends of Hasdeo Aranya

Rights groups and invested experts discuss the Hasdeo mining project controversy in Chhattisgarh

SC sets aside NGT order shutting down factories operating without Environmental Clearance

Does this set a harmful precedent where manufacturing units can be established without following procedure and then be allowed to continue operating due to economic concerns?

Proposed K-Rail project to wreck Kerala’s fragile ecology

EIA report full of holes, gov’t pushing project through without answering key questions about land acquisition, rehabilitation and deforestation

Manipur HC reaffirms stay on development projects around Loktak Lake

The court directed authorities to address the deficiencies in the Integrated Management Plan for Loktak lake, including the lack of a “Brief Document” as required by the Wetland Rules, 2017

Birbhum: Adivasis opposing coal mining project get support from SKM

Farmers should not be forced to give up farmlands for the sake of mining industry, says SKM

Odisha’s JSW project could cause 94 deaths a year: CREA report

The report takes a close look at the health impact of the development project while highlighting missing data in the original EIA

Environmentalist demand withdrawal of changes to Biological Diversity Act

Drawing parallels with the 2020 EIA notification, the CEJI claims the amendments ignore the federal system of the country for corporate benefit

Coastal road project: Over 50 academics bat for fisherfolk

Concerned citizens fishermen's longstanding demands in a letter to state authorities

Dhinkia: A story of perseverance against administrative oppression

Faced with continuous conflicts, villagers remind authorities of their forest and legal rights

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