The government on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking six months' time to set up an independent environment regulator, which will evaluate projects seeking green clearances, enforce terms for a

The Supreme Court had ordered setting up of an independent and powerful environment regulator to weed out corruption in grant of environmental clearances to projects but the Centre on Tuesday told it that it could only set up a body sans power to penalize violators and polluters.

While asking that a regulator be set up at both central and state levels by March 31, the apex court green bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik had on January 6 ordered that the regulator should evaluate projects, enforce environmental conditions for approvals and impose penalties on polluters.

Readies E-Okay To Curb Delays, Mechanism To Be In Place For New Regime

The government is set to fix timelines for forest clearances and hopes to grant approvals in less than a year, compared to a much longer time period, under a new electronic mechanism proposed to be put in place around the time a new regime takes charge.

National Green Tribunal (NGT), Bhopal bench, has served notices to the state government for violation of environmental laws in issuance of lease for sand mining in Betul and Hoshangabad districts.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today rejected the plea of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to lift the conditions slapped on the Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) on diverting the Kazi

Mining stopped following National Green Tribunal sought Environment Clearance for it