Forest Clearance

Delhi-Meerut Expressway: Dasna-Meerut stretch gets environment clearance

A government official said that the proposed Dasna-Meerut alignment has been approved subject to certain conditions.

Publication Date:

20/06/2016

Tags:

Environment Clearance (EC), Delhi, Meerut (T), Roads, Forest Clearance, Central Expert Appraisal Committee (CEAC), National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Forest Act 1988, Urbanisation, Environment

Environment

Environmental governance under two years of NDA government

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has reviewed the performance of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the end of its two years in office on measures of environmental governance, particularly as undertaken by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Environment, Governance, India, CSE, Environment Clearance (EC), Industrial Pollution, Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Waste Management, Climate Change, Ganga, Forest Clearance

Forests

Environment ministry defines forests, legally

Large green patches, apart from recorded forests, to get protection. Clarity to help industry

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Author(s): Nitin SethI

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Forests, Forest Act 1980, Mining, Forest Clearance, Haryana, Mineral - Based Industry, Forest Policy

Environment

Environment clearance to more hydel projects in Arunachal

In what could trigger fresh controversies, the NDA Government at the Centre during the last two years has accorded environment and forest clearance to several hydroelectric projects that have a co

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Source: Assam Tribune (Guwahati)

Tags:

Arunachal, Environment Clearance (EC), Dibang, Hydroelectricity, Forest Clearance, Subansiri, Roads, Environment

Environment

Env Min releases state-wise list of projects given sanctions

The Environment Ministry today released state-wise list of public utility projects which have been given forest and environmental clearances between May 2014 and April this year, highlighting the p

Publication Date:

08/06/2016

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Environment Clearance (EC), Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Forest Clearance, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment

Forests

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding felling of trees for widening of NH-87 from Rampur to Kathgodam, Uttarakhand, 31/05/2016

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Friends Vs. Ministry of Environment, Forest & CC & Others dated 31/05/2016 regarding felling of trees for widening of NH-87 from Rampur to Kathgodam, Uttarakhand. NGT disposes of this Application with the directions that there will be no felling of trees for widening of NH-87 from Rampur to Kathgodam unless the concerned authorities have obtained Forest Clearance for felling of trees and have provided compensatory afforestation.

Judgement Date:

31/05/2016

Tags:

Highways, Deforestation, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Forest Clearance

Mining

Environment ministry panel recommends forest clearance to SCCL's coal project in AP

A high-level panel of the environment ministry has recommended granting clearance to diversion of forest land for state-owned Singareni Collieries Company Ltd's coal mining project in Andhra Prades

Publication Date:

23/05/2016

Source: Economic Times (New Delhi)

Tags:

Andhra Pradesh, Coal, Mining, Forest Clearance, Coal Industry

Mining