Show Cause Notices Issued For Closure To Flipkart, Patanjali For Flouting Plastic Waste Management Rules: CPCB Tells NGT [Read Report]

While submitting a report before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has stated that show-cause notices have been issued To Flipkart and Patanjali Peya for the closure of their operation and levying environment compensation.Notably, this report has been submitted with regard to the tribunal's latest direction wherein the Central Pollution Control...

Draft EIA Notification 2020 Does Not Provide For Ex Post Facto Clearance To Violation Cases: Centre Tells Lok Sabha [Read Statement]

The Draft EIA Notification 2020 does not provide for ex post facto clearance to violation cases, the Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change stated in Lok Sabha today.Minister of State Babulal Suproyo was responding to the query made by MP Hibi Eden in this regard. He asked whether there is any provision for post facto clearance in the EIA 2020 draft notification. He also...

Operation of Poultry Farms Has Potential to Damage Environment Which Needs to be Regulated: NGT Issues Directions [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has ordered the Central Pollution Control Board to revisit its guidelines categorizing poultry farms with less than one lakh birds in the "green category" and exempting their regulation under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and the Environmental Protection Act,...

Act Against Authorities Who Allowed Construction Of Jharkhand HC And Vidhan Sabha Buildings : NGT Asks Govt. To Halt All Construction Work Without EC [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Principal Bench on Wednesday (09th September) directed the Jharkhand Government to stop all on-going construction work (not having Environmental Clearance) and to take action against authorities in Jharkhand for allowing the construction to take place without prior Environmental Clearance (EC).This Order has been given in connection with the construction...

[Disposal Of Cigarette/Beedi Butts] NGT Asks CPCB To Lay Down Guidelines Within 3 Months 'In The Interest Of Environment' [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday (09th September) directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to lay down guidelines pertaining to disposal of cigarette and beedi butts within 3 months.The Bench comprising Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel (Chairperson NGT), Justice S.P. Wangdi and Dr. Nagin Nanda has issued the aforesaid direction following a report filed by the CPCB.It may be noted...

NGT Asks CPCB To Consider Environmental Audit Of Amazon, Flipkart, Pepsico, Etc. [Read Order]

The National Green tribunal on Thursday asked the Central Pollution Control Board to submit an action taken report against manufacturers and e-commerce websites who use 'excessive plastic packaging material'. The order was passed in two original applications, seeking enforcement of 'Extended Producer Responsibility' under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 vis-à-vis the...

[Foaming On Marina Beach Chennai] NGT Orders State PCB To Strictly Monitor Sources Of Pollution, Clandestine Release Of Sewage Or Other Effluents [Read Order]

After taking into account the factual and action taken related to huge collection of foam at Marina Beach, Chennai, the National Green Tribunal has ordered the State PCB to strictly monitor the sources of pollution, including the clandestine release of sewage or other effluents from STP/CETP, in coordination with other concerned authorities.The Bench comprising Justice Adarsh Kumar...

NGT Orders Panel Probe Into NHAI's Non-Compliance Of Conditions Of Compensatory Afforestation, Rainwater Harvesting While Constructing Pune-Nashik Highway [Read Order]

The Pune Bench of the National Green Tribunal has ordered a panel probe into National Highway Authority of India's alleged violations of the specific conditions imposed on it by the Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to it for up-gradation of the Khed-Sinnar section of the NH-50 Pune Nashik Highway. The Environmental Clearance was granted to it in 2013 for upgrading...

NGT Orders Municipal Council To Take Remedial Measures For Illegal Dumping Of Waste In Ganwari Village Of Meerut [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has ordered the Meerut Municipal Corporation to take adequate remedial action for removal of waste from the bank of the river Kaali in village Ganwari. The waste was disposed in an unscientific and unhygienic manner by the Municipal Authority at the said site and has allegedly taken 200 people ill along with 22 deaths. An application was filed by Mr....

Delhi Air Pollution: SC Directs Completion Of Smog Towers Construction In 10 Months [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has granted ten months for that the completion of the construction of smog towers in Delhi for the purpose of curbing air pollution.This was after the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the Department of Environment & Forests, Government of NCT of Delhi undertook before a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra that the work will be completed within...

SC Takes Cognizance Of Newspaper Report About Flattening Of Aravalli Hills; Seeks Report From Haryana Govt [Read Order]

Having been apprised of the flattening of an entire hillock of the Aravallis, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Haryana State administration to take immediate action to avoid further damage.Taking note of a report that appeared in the Times of India on August 25, a Bench presided over by Justice Arun Mishra asked the AAG of Haryana to submit a report after appropriate action was...

'Mumbai's Mahul & Ambapada Areas Sometimes Like That Of A 'Gas Chamber'; NGT Imposes Rs. 286 Cr Fine On HPCL, BPCL, AEGIS & SEALORD [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal last Thursday imposed a fine of Rs.286 crore on four companies namely Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Aegis logistics and Sealord Containers for contributing substantially to presence of pollutants or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in the air at Mumbai's Mahul and Ambapada villages.Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar...