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When environmental rules stall housing, not pollutionIndia's environmental clearance process often delays urban housing projects, raising costs and slowing jobs without improving protection. A...- Jairam Ramesh flags violation of FRA in clearance of Great Nicobar Island Project, urges action from Ministry of Tribal AffairsIn a letter addressed to Jual Oram, Ramesh argued that the project proceeds in direct violation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and the righ...
- East Jaintia Hills hearing on Shree Cement project turns violentViolence marred a public hearing for the Shree Cement limestone mining project in East Jaintia Hills. The hearing was called off after a la...
- 'Insult to science, make a mockery of EIA process': Jairam Ramesh on Great Nicobar projectSenior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has written to the Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupinder Yadav over escal...
- Rice export rules relaxed for select European countriesIndia has eased rice export rules for many European nations. An inspection certificate from EIC/EIAs is now only required for exports to th...
- DGFT rolls out procedure for allocation of calcined cokeThe Directorate General of Foreign Trade has released new rules for importing calcined petroleum coke for aluminium production. Application...
- Legal impact of climate change: What “risk & liability” really means for corporationsInfrastructure projects face new legal risks due to climate change. Courts, regulators, and lenders now expect companies to foresee and man...
- Centre defends exemptions for strategic, atomic mineral miningThe Centre has rejected Tamil Nadu's request to withdraw an exemption for critical mineral mining projects from public consultation. The Un...
- 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...
- 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...
- 500 academicians, scientists write to environment ministry for withdrawal of draft EIA notification
- 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...
- The new draft Environment Impact Assessment Bill is rubbing environmentalists the wrong wayThe latest draft is the third iteration of the code, first issued in 1994. Environmentalists and citizen groups, however, claim the notific...
- 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...
- 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...
- Green nod not required for building on 20-50k sq mt plotThe notification, recently issued by the ministry of environment, states that it has decided to "re-engineer" EIA rules based on amendments...
- NGT asks MoEF not to act under new notificationFor smaller projects (less than 20,000 sq metres), it even has a "self-declaration" clause, which will ensure issuance of permission from u...
- NGT finds green nod exemption for realty projects 'absurd', issues noticesFor smaller projects (less than 20,000 sq metres) it even has a "self-declaration" clause which will ensure issuance of permission from urb...
- Polavaram project likely to submerge 276 villages in AndhraThe government today said that 276 villages in Andhra Pradesh, four villages in Chhattisagarh and eight villages in Odisha are likely to be...
- House panel asks PM to defer EIA legislationA parliamentary panel has asked Manmohan Singh to defer legislating on the new EIA notification, alleging it undermined the federal charact...
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