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Prioritise ecological security of country over “false narrative” of “highway development”: CCG to Govt & Courts

Former bureaucrats protest the “steady lowering of statutory safeguards for protecting India’s Environment and Forests” in an open letter to the government; both government and the judiciary need to prioritise the ecological security of our country and the health and life of its citizens over the false narrative of more roads, more buildings, more townships, more mines, more industries, more destruction of the natural world that is currently seen as progress.

NGT imposes 25 crore interim penalty in Dahej chemical factory blast incident: Gujarat

The Tribunal has held the company strictly and absolutely liable for the damage caused to life and environment

Assam: Fourteen days later massive fire breaks out at oil well in Baghjan oilfield

The oil well operated by Oil India Limited had a blowout on May 27 after which it was continuously spewing harmful condensate in the environment, affecting animals, livestock and human habitation

The price of profit, OIL’s misadventure threatens Tinsukhia’s reserve forests & wild life sanctuaries: Assam

Taking unscrupulous advantage of the opacity caused by the Covid 19 lockdown, the environmental clearance to OIL’s drilling in Assam severely endangered human and natural life: an Independent Inquiry is the need of the hour, writes Dr Gohain

VECL consistently flouting environmental laws: Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti

The NGO has said that Vadodara Enviro Channel Limited has been dumping chemical rich wastewater which exceeds prescribed norms by the pollution control boards

Assam gas -well blowout: 11 days on, threat to humans and animals remains high

Oil India Limited announced Rs. 30,000 per affected family as compensation but has failed to bring the leak under control

LG Polymers India has Absolute Liability: NGT on Vizag Gas Leak

The Tribunal also directed the state chief secretary to take appropriate action against the people responsible for the failure of law in permitting the company to operate without statutory clearances.

Cyclone Nisarga to hit western coast: Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat in its path

Weaker than Cyclone Amphan, it is expected to make landfall in Maharashtra by June 3

Help the Sundarbans recover from the impact of Cyclone Amphan

The Paschim Radhanagar Sundarban Jana Sramajibi Manch is working with allied organizations towards the relief and rehabilitation of those affected by the cyclone in Sundarbans

The Adivasi cannot live without the forest: Dayamani Barla

As dilution of land and labour rights continues unabated, journalist and tribal rights activist Dayamani Barla explains why sustainable development is the way forward

Raging inferno Jharia treads on hot coals as Centre opens up mining for private sector

The district in Jharkhand has India’s largest coal reserves and is infamous for its underground fires

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