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Green clearance validity for ports, harbours extended to 20 yearsThe government has extended the validity of environmental clearances for ports, harbours, breakwaters and dredging projects to 20 years fro...
Centre can grant post-facto environmental nod only through statutory notification: SCThe Supreme Court has quashed a 2021 office memorandum. This memorandum granted ex-post-facto environmental clearances to infrastructure pr...
Retrospective environmental clearances: SC quashes 2021 directive granting Centre, others power to grant ECsThe Supreme Court has quashed the Centre's 2021 Office Memorandum regarding retrospective environmental clearances. This significant order ...
Should be struck down: Jairam after SC stays govt decision on ex post facto environmental clearanceCongress general secretary Jairam Ramesh has called for a strikedown of office memorandum issued by the Environment Ministry allowing ex po...
Madras High Court stays NGT order against Sun PharmaOriginally, while entertaining a petition, the NGT on September 29 this year had told Sun Pharma to pay the interim compensation for operat...
Supreme Court clears the Central Vista project, says environmental clearance is 'valid'
UPA and NDA governments allowed Sterlite to skip public hearing for green nodVedanta obtained exemption from public consultation for its copper smelter plant expansion project claiming on the ground that it was locat...
NGT junks review plea seeking stay on Noida Metro workIt had also directed upcoming Noida-Greater Noida metro project to obtain environmental clearance from State Level Environment Impact Asses...
Government provides clarity on green nod validityFor extension of EC, the Ministry had specified that an application should be filed before the regulatory authority within the validity per...
Unable to execute project in Odisha at this stage: POSCO tells NGTAppearing before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday , Posco's counsel expressed the firm's diminishing interest in the project nea...
No fresh green nod required for mining projects having valid environment clearancesThe move follows the Centre reinstating environmental clearances of Goa's 72 mines, which were revoked by the previous UPA government.
Decision taken to extend green clearance from 5 to 7 years: Prakash JavadekarJavadekar said that a decision has been taken in the ministry for extending the validity of environmental clearance from five years to seve...
Industrial projects may get seven year green nod as Narendra Modi government looks to boost infra sectorThe move is in tune with the government's policies to facilitate investments in the country and put stalled projects back on track, a gover...
Posco's steel plant: Opponents to move NGT against revalidation by ministryLand acquisition for the project had to be suspended with the National Green Tribunal putting a stay on the felling of trees in the project...
Plea against Odisha steel project filed late: Posco to NGTPosco today claimed before NGT that a plea challenging the forest clearance to its Rs 51,000-crore mega steel project in Odisha was not mai...
Government recommends revalidation of Posco's green clearanceA high power Environment Ministry panel has recommended revalidation of environment clearance granted in 2007 for Posco
- Government gives extra time for environmental approval for mines
In another measure that should ease mining operations, the notification also allow developers to apply for environmental clearance two year...
- Goa miners in limbo following expiry of green clearances
The fate of 45 mines in Goa hangs in balance with the environmental clearances granted to them by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (...
- Coastal Maharashtra projects halted till June 2011
The Union environment and forests ministry on Monday extended the moratorium on environmental clearances to new projects in the coastal Rat...
- Source mines for Vedanta refinery under scanner
The move has come amid reports that Vedanta's alumina refinery project in Lanjigarh has been sourcing bauxite from illegal mines.