Heeding to states' plea for simplification of green clearance process, the Union environment and forests ministry has come out with detailed guidelines giving more powers to states by exempting cer

On the day that Veerappa Moily took over reins, the Environment Ministry eased environmental clearance norms for select industries, including brick kiln owners and river sand miners.

On December 24, the Ministry took a decision to exempt a slew of different types of industrial and mining projects from either providing environmental impact assessment reports or holding public hearings when they are approved by the state government.

New Delhi: Heeding to states’ plea for simplification of green clearance process, the Union environment and forests ministry has come out with detailed guidelines giving more powers to states by ex

With the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) stipulating all projects falling within the purview of 10 km radius of a sanctuary or a national park to seek clearance from the National Wildlif

ओडिशा में मौजूद 192 लोहे की खदानों में से 94 गैरकानूनी तरीके से चल रही हैं। राज्य में हो रही आयरन माइनिंग की जांच के लिए बने शाह कमीशन की रिपोर्ट में यह खुलासा हुआ है। यह रिपोर्ट अभी संसद में पेश क

Seeking to send a positive signal to industries, the new environment and forest minister M Veerappa Moily on Tuesday said no files will be kept pending in his ministry and the "image" of the green

New environment minister insists that ministry’s regulatory role will not be compromised

Veerappa Moily took over as environment minister on Tuesday, the third in the last four and half years, promising to speed up decision-making without compromising on the ministry’s regulatory role.

They used a legal loophole to violate environmental norms

Ninety-four of the 192 iron ore mining leases in Odisha do not have the mandatory environmental clearances. And of the 96 that did have them, 75 have mined far beyond their permitted levels over the past several years, the Justice M.B. Shah Commission report on illegal iron and manganese ore mining has said.

Department of Environment (DoE) on Monday fined a milk powder factory in Narayanganj Tk 22.3 lakh for constructing a new unit on its premises without any environmental clearance, reports UNB.