widespread resistance to a new uranium mine and processing plant in his long-time Pulivendula assembly constituency in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock to chief minister Y S

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the draft environmental impact assessment (eia) notification has been available for comment on the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) website for almost a year now. Consequently, moef

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Gujarat legislators want ONGC to rehabilitate farmers

In 2003, 10 of the largest commercial banks in the world agreed to the so-called Equator Principles: a set of policies for financial institutions to determine, assess and manage environmental and social risks in project finance. By 2005 end, 37 of the world's largest private financial institutions signed it. The principles' overall framework is based on environmental and social safeguard policies, pollution standards and environmental and social risk categorisation system.

Effluents threaten Nilgiri

The controversy around the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve