Environment minister Prakash Javadekar has made it clear that changes to environment and forest-related laws will not be introduced in the form of ordinances.

Under the UPA government, a working group was formed to look into the revision of pollution categories

Top environment experts have questioned the recommendations of the government-appointed committee to suggest changes to six existing environment and forest laws.

Industries and local bodies will soon have to comply with 95% of environmental norms delineated by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) as per an enforcement policy drafted on directions

A number of steps have been taken in the past six months to speed up green clearances but the government is also examining 55 additional suggestions to achieve its twin goals of economic growth and

As the environment versus development debate continued to torment policy makers in 2014, the new government initiated the process of rewriting the rules of environmental governance in a bid to brin

Pushing for mining sector reforms, the Cabinet is expected to take up Monday a proposal from the Mines Ministry to promulgate an ordinance to amend the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulatio

At present only courts have the authority to impose penalty on the basis of complaints filed by authorised officers; it has hardly ever led to action

Expressing dissatisfaction over the State Government’s dillydallying attitude in framing draft rules for the State under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), the Right to Food Campaign, State Cha

Proposing a complete overhaul of the existing environmental governance framework, a government-appointed expert committee has recommended measures that would make it easier to set up industrial or