Ecological rules are economic guard railsThe Supreme Court struck down a provision in the EIA Regulations 2020 that regularized environmental norm violations, addressing a long-sta...
Willing to translate, publish draft EIA in 22 vernacular languages, Centre tells HCThe court's order had come on a PIL by environmental conservationist Vikrant Tongat, seeking publication of the notification in all vernacu...
Giving "thoughtful consideration" to HC view to translate draft EIA in 22 languages: CentreThe high court on February 25 had observed that its view that the draft EIA be translated in all 22 languages should not be taken so "comba...
HC asks Centre not to take court's view combatively on having EIA draft in all languages"View taken by the court should not be taken so combatively by the Union government," a special bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justic...
Why Centre resisting direction to translate draft EIA in all vernacular languages: Delhi High CourtA special bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan said the government would have to understand the objections in local l...
Draft EIA notification doesn't give exemptions from public consultations to industries: MinistryIn a separate reply, Supriyo also rebutted the objections raised by the United Nations' Special Rapporteur, an independent expert appointed...
Plea for 60 days more to respond to translated draft EIA 2020; Delhi High Court seeks Centre's standA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan issued notice to the Environment Ministry on the application which seeks modif...
Draft EIA in line with green rules, court rulings: Prakash Javadekar, Environment MinisterWe are not giving any postfacto sanction. This is not our invention. UPA governments brought this concept in through memos in 2010, 2012 an...
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi seek withdrawal of EIA 2020Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused the government of dismantling India's environment rules and demanded tha...
Draft EIA 2020: No rethink on ‘post facto’ nod unless good legal rationale, says SecyBulk of the feedback received are centred on the issue of post facto clearances and bigger list of ‘B2’ category industries that are propos...
Rahul Gandhi's objections to draft EIA 'unnecessary and premature', says JavadekarSpeaking to the media after an event to celebrate World Elephant Day, Javadekar said, "Saw reaction of some leaders demanding protest again...
Environment impact assessment draft must be withdrawn to stop 'environmental destruction': Rahul GandhiGandhi alleged that the aim of EIA 2020 draft was clear -- "loot of the nation". "This (EIA) is another dreadful example of what the BJP go...
HC extends time till Aug 11 for giving suggestions to draft EIA 2020A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan passed the order after the Environment Ministry did not address the court's qu...
Student unions, youth groups write to Environment Ministry to put on hold new EIA draft notificationIn a letter to Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, the students from Delhi University, JNU, Aligarh Muslim University, All India Studen...
Does Opec see US oil output as half full or half empty?America’s second shale boom is certainly drawing to a close.
US-China trade deal holds key to higher oil pricesMarch production figures mean Saudi would be voluntarily cutting output by more than 500,000 bpd below its pledged production level.
China to be world's 3rd largest nuclear energy generating country: EIAChina is expected to surpass the Republic of Korea and Russia in nuclear generating capacity by the end of 2015 and overtake Japan around 2...