The Supreme Court heard arguments on retrospective environmental clearances, with one lawyer arguing prior clearance is a vital safeguard, ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. The petition concerned retrospective environmental clearances ...

Jairam Ramesh has filed a Supreme Court petition against retrospective environmental clearances. He stated these clearances are unlawful an...

The Supreme Court has delivered a split verdict on retrospective environmental clearances. A majority of judges have voted to recall a prev...

GoI should set up a specialised committee comprising relevant multidisciplinary experts to review and set environmental norms for pipeline ...

SEIAA member-secretary Ramachandra told ET, “We will issue notices to more than 30 builders in the city for non-compliance with environment...

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...

Javadekar informed the Lower House that a "total of nine (iron and steel) units were issued directions under Section 5 of Environment (Prot...

The Environment Ministry will soon ease norms for clearances under a new policy that will give decision-making right to the states concerne...

Union environment ministry's liberal approach under the new minister M Veerappa Moily has made the green groups worried.

Union environment ministry’s liberal approach under the new minister M Veerappa Moily has made the green groups worried.

The penalty was recommended by a committee headed by Sunita Narain, DG of Centre for Science and Environment, set up by the environment min...

The environment ministry, under pressure from real estate and builder lobbies, and state governments, has limited the ambit of clearances.

This move reverses Jairam Ramesh's decision to tighten guidelines in an effort to reduce the diversion of forests by making it a last resor...

Environment Ministry now issues a show-cause notice to Vedanta to reply within a fortnight on allegedly expanding the capacity of its refin...

The West Bengal government has decided to expedite the process of environmental and pollution clearances for industrial, housing and other ...

To quicken implementation of airport projects, particularly those involving small investments, the Planning Commission is considering relax...