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Vedanta group's iron ore mining, steel biz cut 2.5 MT of carbon emissions in last 5 yrsVedanta's iron ore and steel business has significantly cut carbon emissions. Over five years, nearly 2.5 million tonnes of emissions were ...- Centre issues guidelines to use green credits as substitute for compensatory afforestationNew guidelines under the Green Credit Programme (GCP) allow restored forest land to be exchanged between states/UTs for compensatory affore...
- Centre defers decision on Vedanta's proposal to divert 708 hectares of forest land for Sijimali Bauxite MinesThe Union Environment Ministry has delayed Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Odisha due to concerns over community consent and ecological...
- Congress, BJD question Adani's land purchase in Odisha, company says it's for afforestationThe Adani Group's recent land acquisition near Odisha's Gandhamardhan hills has sparked controversy. While the group claims the land is for...
- PSUs in coal sector brought 18,849 hectares under green cover in last 10 years: GovtThe coal public sector units have identified about 3,075 hectares of afforested non-forest de-coaled land suitable for Accredited Compensat...
- NLC India to invest Rs 17,000 cr, plans to develop Talabira coal blocks in OdishaNLC India's integrated project with huge green cover will ensure uninterrupted electricity to lakhs of households and commercial establishm...
- Forest rights groups demand amendment in compensatory afforestation lawHighlighting discrepancies in carrying out compensatory afforestation across the country, leading forest rights groups and tribal organisat...
- Community forests, common lands threatened by new plantation guidelines
- Environment ministry drafts rules for utilisation of more than Rs 42,000 crore greening fundThe CAF Act, which was passed by the Parliament in July 2016, approved the release of more than Rs 42,000 crore to be spent on afforestatio...
- Coal India afforesting more than double the land it mines on: Coal secretary Anil SwarupCoal India is afforesting about two and a half times of forest land it conducts mining on so as to minimize impact on land and environment.
- Rajasthan has largest area under mining leases in countryAccording to the ministry, in the last financial year, out of the total 5,30,232.93 ha under mining in the country, 1,16,009.93 ha was in R...
- Nalco Mines get awardIt received 1st prize in top soil management, 1st prize in Afforestation, 2nd prize in Reclamation & Rehabilitation and 2nd Prize in overal...
- Reliance Power's Jharkhand UMPP proposal gets CCI nodCabinet Committee on Investment has cleared Reliance Power's Tilaiya ultra mega power project in Jharkhand, sources said.
- Govt exempts UMPPs from compensatory afforestation clauseThe decision will benefit companies like Reliance Power that is implementing 3 ultra mega power projects and developers of future such proj...
- CAG pulls up environment ministry for favouring Reliance Power, JP Associates“We noticed serious shortcomings in regulatory issues related to diversion of forest land, the abject failure to promote compensatory affor...
- RPower's Sasan power project got undue favour from MoEF: CAGRPower's Sasan power project received undue favour from the environment ministry that gave forest clearance to the project in violation of ...
- Simpler forest approval norms for mining, miners will now have to seek forest clearanceThe ministry said mine developers would have to seek forest clearance for the entire lease area instead of the current practice of seeking ...
- Mining companies may have to seek green nod for full lease area at one goThe environment ministry plans to change forest clearance norms for mining projects to make them simpler and discourage firms from acquirin...
- Private miners recklessly felling treesSuch cases came up during a meeting held by Ministry of Coal's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment at Western Coalfields Ltd (W...
- Bellary miners want forest department to share responsibility for environmental degradationDays after the Supreme Court temporarily banned mining in Bellary, the suspended miners want the state’s forest department to share respons...
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