Seeks detailed plan on handling of hazardous waste, oil spillage, radioactive materials

The decision on environmental and costal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance to Adani Group’s ship recycling facility near Mundra port in Kutch has been deferred with the expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) seeking detailed action plan on hazardous waste disposal, oil spillage, detection of radioactive materials and green belt to name a few. The project is being developed by the Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) Ltd.

Worried over CBI inquiry into coal block allocations delaying the expansion work of Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC), its only energy PSU, Orissa has sought coal ministry’s intervention i

The company has already shut down its 600,000 mtpa plant at Keonjhar

Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has ordered to initiate legal action against Ardent Steel Limited (ASL), for running a pellet plant without obtaining environmental clearance. Accordingly, the forest and environment department of Odisha government has commenced procedures to file a case against the company.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests has deferred the grant of environmental clearance to the 4,000-MW ultra mega power project (UMPP) at Bhedabahal in Odisha.

Environmental clearance was granted to a 300-MW hydroelectric power project on February 3 even as a Supreme Court order dated August 13, 2013 clearly said the Union Ministry of Environment and Fore

Ministry to seek more time from SC

The environment appraisal committee (EAC) will shift out of the ambit of the environment ministry once the autonomous regulator is formed, it is learnt. The EAC will come under a regulatory authority which is yet to be constituted for the environment sector. The ministry is finalising a Cabinet note in this regard.

EAC also deliberated on the public hearing issues and commitments, and budgetary allocation made by the project authorities there under

A high-level panel has recommended environment clearance to National Mineral Development Corp's (NMDC) underground coal mining projects in Madhya Pradesh but with riders.

The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a petition filed against the partial shutdown of several manufacturing units in the Mundra Special Economic Zone over lack of environmental clearance to the

Court asks ministry to look into APSEZ clearance issue within 30 days

Monday’s order by the Gujarat High Court directing 12 units in the Mundra SEZ of the Adani Group to temporarily stop operations till the SEZ receives an environmental clearance is yet another indictment of the environment and forest ministry. The order, besides hauling up the Adani Group for allotting land to companies even before obtaining an environmental clearance for its SEZ complex at Mundra, highlights the ministry’s poor scrutiny of the project.

Vested with the Herculean task of fast-tracking decisions on scores of large projects, environment minister M Veerappa Moily has embarked on a drive to reassign jobs to the key officials in his ministry, reports Kirtika Suneja in

New Delhi. Moily has also reconstituted the various expert appraisal committees (EAC) of the ministry, besides shuffling the work allocated among officers.