States to get leeway in developing tourism, industrial infrastructure

Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has notified the draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 2018 guidelines for comments of the public and stakeholders in the next 60 day. This draft notification has major recommendation which would boost tourism development in coastal areas of the country which remains untapped due to stringent regulatory framework.

The Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) will be seeking environmental clearance for the construction of a jetty at Girgaum Chowpatty, behind Birla Krida Kendra (BKK), the cultural hot-spot of south Mumbai.

Across the world, poor communities bear a disproportionate burden of the environmental cost of development. Harmful projects such as polluting industrial units, municipal disposal sites or mining projects are usually situated close to poor neighbourhoods.

PANJIM: In what could grant major relief to project proponents, who failed to obtain prior clearances under the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) for their projects, the Union Ministry for Environment

Providing yet another window to regularise projects that have not taken prior green clearances, this time under Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate

PANJIM: Citing a “communication gap”, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking a modification of its order on grant of Environmen

The Union Environment Ministry in a notification has clarified that melting of coal tar does not cause pollution of either air or water.

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) and clause (v) of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) read with clause (d) of sub-rule (3) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, the Central Government hereby makes the following further amendments in the Coastal Regulation Zon

Across the globe, the “development experience” of communities varies depending on their socioeconomic and political backgrounds.

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