India

 GIVING DIRECTIONS

The Supreme Court of India has asked the Union ministry of environment and forests to approve a project report on a common effluent treatment plant for a new leather tannery complex to come up

Publication Date: 
30/07/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Leather Industry, Legislation, Supreme Court, India
Food Policy

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding the issue of food security in India, 23/07/2011

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the People's Union for Civil Liberties Vs Union of India & Ors dated 23/07/2001 regarding the issue of food security in India.

Judgement Date: 
23/07/2001
Tags:
Food Security, India, Supreme Court, Food Supply, Government Of India (GOI)
Transport

Report on clean fuels

The Hon

Publication Date: 
01/07/2001
Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority
Tags:
Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), CNG, Fuel Quality, Fuel Adulteration, Supreme Court, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Vehicle Technology and Fuel
Air Pollution

Report on standards for CNG vehicles and refilling stations

The current emission standards and safety measures for conversion of in-use vehicles to CNG are extremely lax. The emission standards only require the vehicles to meet the equivalent standards for diesel and petrol vehicles in force in the year of manufacture. This means that a pre-1996 vehicle after being converted to CNG would have to meet only the outdated emission

Publication Date: 
01/07/2001
Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority
Tags:
Air Pollution, Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), CNG, Vehicular Standards, CNG Safety, Supreme Court, India, Vehicles, Vehicle Technology and Fuel
India

 The great sham

Under pressure from the Supreme Court, the Delhi government resorts to a five day charade to clean up the Yamuna

Publication Date: 
29/06/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Yamuna, Water Quality, Hospital Waste, Supreme Court, NGO, Delhi
Natural Disasters

 Follow Up

The Delhi high court and the city's lower courts are proving to be the major obstacles in the way of cleaning the Yamuna river, the Union urban development ministry recently stated in a reply to the

Publication Date: 
14/06/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Rivers, Yamuna, Urban Development, Supreme Court, High Court, Delhi
Climate Change

 Clean call

Let the Bhure Lal Committee decide on what qualifies to be a clean fuel, says the Supreme Court

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Benzene, CNG, Diesel, Petrol, Supreme Court, Delhi, Vehicles
India

 Contempt of court

The Supreme Court of India has adjourned till August 2001 the hearing on a petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, writer Arundhati

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Narmada Valley Project, Legislation, Supreme Court, India
Water Resources

 DANGEROUS ROAD

The Supreme Court has stayed a project of the Uttaranchal government to build

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Trees, Corbett NP, Tiger Reserves, Supreme Court, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
India

 PROTECTING WETLANDS

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court for the protection of wetlands. M K Balakrishnan, an advocate, has filed the petition, which also includes a provision for paddy

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Wetlands, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Supreme Court, Calcutta (D)

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