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RETROSPECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCES
Economic expediency vs precautionary principle: Supreme Court reopens debate on retroactive project approvalsSupreme Court is reviewing retrospective environmental clearances. This case questions India's commitment to sustainability. Allowing proje...- 'Polluter pays' principle must not be reduced to 'pollute and pay', SC toldThe Supreme Court heard arguments on retrospective environmental clearances, with one lawyer arguing prior clearance is a vital safeguard, ...
- 'Be ready for exemplary cost': SC dismisses Jairam Ramesh's plea on retrospective environmental clearancesThe Supreme Court has dismissed a petition by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. The petition concerned retrospective environmental clearances ...
- Jairam Ramesh files petition in SC challenging ex post facto environmental clearancesJairam Ramesh has filed a Supreme Court petition against retrospective environmental clearances. He stated these clearances are unlawful an...
- 2025 Supreme Court cases & judgements that shaped country's jurisprudenceIn 2025, the Supreme Court of India witnessed a series of groundbreaking developments. An internal probe ignited impeachment proceedings ag...
- Supreme Court recalls its green ruling with 2:1 judgementA bench of CJI BR Gavai, justices Ujjal Bhuyan and K Vinod Chandran with a 2:1 majority allowed a review plea against its May 2025 judgment...
- SC recall verdict saves AIIMS, airport and Rs 20,000 cr projects from demolition; Here’s what happenedThe Supreme Court has recalled its May 16 judgement. This decision prevents the demolition of public infrastructure worth Rs 20,000 crore. ...
- SC recalls order barring govt from retrospective green nod for projectsThe Supreme Court has delivered a split verdict on retrospective environmental clearances. A majority of judges have voted to recall a prev...
- CJI B R Gavai calls October 6 shoe attack shocking but a 'forgotten chapter'Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai stated he and Justice K. Vinod Chandran were shocked by a lawyer's shoe-hurling attempt on October 6, cal...
- SC commences hearing pleas seeking review, modification of May 16 verdict on grant of EC to projectsThe Supreme Court began hearing 40 petitions challenging its May 16 verdict that outlawed retrospective environmental clearances for projec...
- SC order on retrospective environmental clearances a step forward but gaps remain: ExpertsThe Supreme Court has barred retrospective environmental clearances, a move welcomed by policy experts who, however, caution that loopholes...
- Retrospective environmental clearance can be granted in exceptional circumstances: SC"Where the adverse consequences of denial of ex post facto approval outweigh the consequences of regularisation of operations by the grant ...
- Kaleshwaram irrigation project got environmental clearance 'ex post facto' in violation of law: NGTThe green panel directed the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to constitute a seven-member expert committee and suggest relief an...
- 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...
- 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...
- Industry worried about ramifications from Supreme Court's Odisha mining orderThe order has given ammunition to green activists to seek court orders against mines in Goa & other states, and strengthened their case in ...
- NGT says realty projects’ non-FSI areas to be computed for environmental nodNGT has held that fire safety provisions, parking spaces and recreation grounds must be included while computing a realty project’s built-u...
- Tribunal suspends Posco's green clearanceA green tribunal suspended Posco's environmental clearance for a megal steel plant on Friday.
- 'Green hurdles for 16 coal blocks cleared'Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh would dilute environmental norms to allow 16 coal projects to take off, coal minister Sriprakash J...
- Don’t stall PoscopInstead of striving to right alleged past wrongs, the ministry needs to oversee how environmental norms can be met and followed through in ...
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