KOZHIKODE: The Ministry of Environment and Forests has released the draft notification of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 2010 under the Environment Protection Act 1986, inviting suggestions and objections from the public within 60 days after the issue of the draft.

Under the new notification, all the islands in the backwaters of Kerala will be covered under the CRZ notification.

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Anirudh Burman & CV Madhukar

The recent order of the ministry of environment and forests (MoE&F) rejecting the application for grant of forest clearance to the Orissa Mining Company (the Vedanta project) has raised a number of important questions. The order cited the company

Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has acted boldly and impartially by relying on scientific expertise and rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. In doing so, he has laudably upheld due process, human rights, and environmental laws.

In popular imagination, he has two different avatars. The truth is somewhere in between
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The Centre has admitted in the Supreme Court that the Environment Impact Notification (EIA), 2006, considered very crucial for clearing all critical projects in the green area, as well as the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, lack clarity in defining of the construction projects, making it open to