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.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today virtually admonished the State of Punjab for not performing its duties to check illegal mining in the State; and set a month’s deadline to complete investiga

साउथ दिल्ली नगर निगम (एसडीएमसी) ने नैशनल ग्रीन ट्रिब्यूनल (एनजीटी) के सामने माना कि राजधानी में स्टॉर्म वाटर ड्रेन्स (नाले) को ढंकने या लाइनिंग से पहले कोई पर्यावरणीय मंजूरी (एनवायरमेंटल क्लीयरेंस)

Shiv Sena threatens to explore legal course of action against nod

The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) attached to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MOEF) has accorded conditional environment clearance to Tata Power for converting the latter’s 500-Mw Trombay power plant to operate on coal, in place of low sulphur fuel and heavy stock.

The Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSECL) has received environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests to set up a 800 MW power unit at a cost of over Rs 4,100 cror

Receives environment, CRZ clearances from MoEF for its Floating Storage, Regassification Unit based LNG import terminal proj near Pipavav

Mumbai-based green energy player, Swan Energy Ltd has today announced that the company has received environment clearance for its LNG terminal near Pipavav in Gujarat.