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.

With Ramesh and Natarajan ousted, many fear the MoEF may go back to being a puppet ministry

Is the suspected expulsion of Jayanthi Natarajan from the environment portfolio for purportedly halting projects worth Rs 10 lakh crore a step back from the nascent effort made by the UPA government to give teeth to the Ministry of Environment and Forests?

A couple of projects that the home ministry says are vital to national security have become a collateral casualty to the regime of slow environmental clearances, which has affected investment and i

This is an eco-sensitive zone, involving massive infrastructure, they say

Around 50 environmentalists from across the country have written to the Union Environment Ministry that Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Statue of Unity, envisaging a 182- metre statue of Sardar Patel inside Narmada river, 3.2 km downstream of Sardar Sarovar Dam and Shoolpaneshar Sanctuary, was working without environment approval.