The Supreme Court said it will hear the pleas challenging the Bombay High Court order that rejected clearance to coastal road project in Mu...

The project proposed to connect Marine Drive area in south Mumbai to Borivali in north Mumbai.

Urban local bodies such as municipalities will have the power to grant building permission, which may attract criticism from green activist...

That former US President Barack Obama rolled out a plan in 2015 to make a 1,500-mile corridor for them from Mexico to Minnesota shows that ...

The biggest problem the ministry of housing and urban affairs was facing in the implementation of solid waste treatment and processing proj...

Maharashtra has now become the second state after Delhi where civic bodies will have this delegation of power.

The notification brings building project of the size of 5,000 sq metres to less than 20,000sq metres within the ambit of fulfilling "enviro...

The counsel appearing for various builders assured the bench that they would put up Sewage Treatment Plants to ensure discharge of only tre...

Projects above 20,000 sq meters will have to bring in energy optimisation systems besides ensuring that at least 1% of energy needs are met...

Nearly 40 members discussed various issues with Environment Minister and Housing Minister on a one-on-one basis.

Taking note of its internal report that shows severe negligence on part of municipal bodies in managing solid waste, the central pollution ...

NGT has held that fire safety provisions, parking spaces and recreation grounds must be included while computing a realty project’s built-u...

Prakash Javadekar said that construction and demolition works generate pollutants including dust particles which can degrade quality of wat...

If the proposal to create NEMA is accepted, Subramanian told ET, "The ministry will be the final approving body but it will have to give a ...

CAG has found that the urban development department of Maharashtra govt misinterpreted information from Union Environment Ministry as "no o...

The PMO has directed the ministry of environment & forests to promote citizen monitoring through disclosure of environment nod by project d...

The government having decided that the critical housing and construction projects cannot be equated with the much more inherently polluting...