The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has been pulled up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for "casually" granting environmental clearance for a mining project in reserved forest a

A direct road to Parambikulam through Kerala is unlikely to get the necessary clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests owing to the opposition from the environmentalists in Tami

The Centre has given “environment clearance” for the Rs 5,813-crore 2x600MW North Chennai Thermal Power Project stage-II treating it as a “special case”.

CORTALIM: The casual attitude of the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) towards the public consultation process of EC clearance for the Mormugao Port expansion project came in for severe cri

After imposing penalty of about Rs 75,000 crore against 104 mining companies for excess production of ore, Odisha government has identified 111 mines violating environment laws, official sources sa

Nearly 220 project proposals for construction within the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR), a vast majority of them being residential, are pending for want of environmental clearance from the state

With the MB Shah Commission probing the alleged Rs 76,000 crore mining scam in Orissa, the state forest department has now asked the steel and mines department to ensure that mining leases operate