In middle-class environmentalism, there is no appetite for changing lifestyles to minimise waste and pollution. In the past 10 years, India's environmental movement has undergone a rebirth.

The National Green Tribunal has restrained a company here which manufactures caustic soda from carrying out construction activities and expansion of production capacity and directed the Puducherry

Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Monday ordered the closure of an allegedly illegal laterite stones quarry near a residential area at Dhansade-Torla in a tenanted agricultural field in

Calls for EIA of coal and coke handling facility at berth No 11

In a major setback to the Mormugao Port Trust, the Goa State Pollution Control Board while deferring the grant of consent to establish a mechanized coal and coke handling facility at berth no 11 has directed the MPT to carry out a detailed environmental impact assessment (EIA) study of the proposal.

The High Court has allowed one month operation of hotels that have installed Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) after being sealed by the Pollution Control Board (PCB) in Gulmarg.

At least six tyre pyrolysis plants of RIICO operating out of Bitcckiwara village in Dungarpur along the Gujarat-Rajasthan border have been asked to stop operations with immediate effect by the Stat

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pankaj Sharma Vs MoEF & Others dated 20/09/2013 regarding large number of mushroom development of restaurants which have illegally come out in the Hauz Khas Village without obtaining the required consents under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 an

Company asked to shut down DRI kiln 6, 9 and 10 and 130 mw FBC boiler (unit-II) forthwith

The State Pollution Control Board has filed a case against unit-I of Jaypee Cement Plant in a local court for undertaking expansion without obtaining the environmental clearance and other approvals

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of A.T. Yuvaraj Erode District Vs Rani Chemicals Kalingarayanpalayam and Others regarding pollution caused by industries involved in the manufacturing of bleaching liquid which has been a
cause for rampant air and water pollution in and around the village of Attayampalayam, district Erode dated 04/09/2013.

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