All are equally responsible to protect the earth

MITIGATE GLOBAL WARMING: V. Carmelus, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway, watering a sapling after planting it inside the Golden Rock Railway Workshop in Tiruchi on Tuesday

TIRUCHI: Environment protection is not merely the concern of the government alone.

Hyderabad, June 7 A Central legislation will be enacted soon to pave way for the establishment of an independent environmental protection authority to ensure effective implementation of the Environment Protection Act, according to Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests.

A month-long programme on environment protection was inaugurated at Western Institute of Technology (WIT) as part of the World Environment Day here on Friday.

Deputy Commissioner V Ponnuraj said the environmentalists should introspect as how far they are true environmentalists both in principles and practice.

P M Raghunandan, Bangalore, DH News Service:

The State Government has at last woken up to the widespread damage mining and quarrying activities are causing to the environment.

Ahmedabad : Reduce, reuse and recycle plastic a group of more than 15 youngsters armed with placards and posters, conducted a rally on CG road to promote this thought on Tuesday.

Environment Minister Says Finance Ministry Report Insensitive To Ecological Concerns

Industries minister Nirupam Sen today expressed hope that the Manmohan Singh government would not go back on its earlier cabinet approval for the chemical hub at Nayachar.

New Delhi: Her new ministerial responsibilities have not dampened her agitational spirit. Even as new ministers were taking oath on Thursday, a vintage Mamata told TOI that come hell or high water, she would not allow the proposed chemicals hub to come up in Nayachar in West Bengal.

Latha Jishnu / New Delhi May 28, 2009, 0:58 IST

A secret report aims to make environmental clearance a standardised exercise that bypasses critical requirements.