The Department of Environment on Sunday fined a power generating company Tk 50 lakh for construction of a power station without environment clearance.

The year 2013 was a wasted one. How can 2014 be different? When I look back on the year, I think of a cacophony.

Activists may move NGT against revalidation by ministry

It may not be a smooth ride yet for South Korea steel major Posco’s integrated steel plant project in Odisha. The project’s forest clearance, currently pending before the National Green Tribunal, may not be the last hurdle for the South Korean company. Opponents of the project are questioning the legality of the ministry’s decision to revalidate the environmental clearance as well.

Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta's plan to mine Niyamgiri

The Union Environment Ministry has taken a decision in two high profile cases, rejecting the forest clearance for Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha, and renewing the stand-alone environmental clearance for Posco’s eight million tonnes per annum steel plant.

The environment ministry under Veerappa Moily has approved the $ 12.6 billion Posco steel plant in Orissa, the biggest foreign direct investment in India.

The Tawang project will require diversion of 116 hectares forest land, including 19.6 hectares for underground use.

A YEAR after the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) gave its nod to the strategic Tawang II hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared it.

Moily approves two power projects, two coal mines, a port in Andhra and an oil pipeline from Chennai port

Environment and forests minister M Veerappa Moily cleared six long-stalled infrastructure projects worth . 19,000 crore in the first eight days of 2014, signalling his intent that crucial industry projects will not be delayed for want of a green nod.

Company has been asked to spend on 'social commitments', raising project costs by $600 mn

The environment ministry has given its go-ahead to Posco's planned steel plant in the country, but has asked it to spend on "social commitments", a company spokesman said, raising the project's cost by $600 million to $12.6 billion.