Draft EIA 2020: SC Stays Delhi HC Contempt Proceedings Against Centre For Failure To Publish Notification In Regional Languages [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the contempt of court proceedings initiated by Delhi High Court against Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) for failing to publish draft Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) notification 2020 in multiple regional languages.The Centre, however, withdrew its Special Leave Petition filed in the apex court to avail the remedy of...

[Breaking] Draft EIA Notification 2020: Karnataka HC Restrains Centre From Publishing Final Notification Till Sep 7

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday restrained the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change from publishing the Final Notification based on the Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification 2020, till September 7. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ashok S Kinagi took into account the fact that the draft the notification has...

NGT Imposes Stay On Cutting Of Coconut Trees In Lakshwadeep While Forming A Panel To Probe Into Its Effect On The Environment [Read Order]

National Green Tribunal has ordered the Lakshwadeep Union Government and its Public Works Department to stop the cutting of coconut trees in Agatti island of Lakshwadeep till further hearing. The order to maintain status quo in the region by not cutting more trees was given by the Southern Zone bench of the Tribunal on an environmental concern raised by the residents of the island by...

NGT Orders GCGSCL To Pay Rs. 64 Lakhs To The Family Of 19 Year Old, Who Died Due To A Leaked Coal-Gas Pipeline Next to Her Room [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has ordered the Greater Calcutta Gas Supply Corporation Limited (GCGSCL) to pay Rs. 64 lakhs as compensation for the death of a 19 year old who died due to suffocation resulting from leakage of gas from a crack in the pipeline of the GCGSCL, laid underground just behind the window of the room where the deceased had died. The deceased girl, Ms....

SC Asks Centre To File Detailed Affidavit Regarding Completion Of Smog Tower Project In Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to file a comprehensive affidavit highlighting all details about the smog tower project in Delhi and why the same was not completed as per Court Orders. A Bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, BR Gavai and Krishna Murari had several questions about various aspects regarding the implementation of this project, which aims to help...

NGT Orders Formation Of A Committee To Probe Large Scale Illegal Coal Mining In Reserve Forest Of Assam [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has passed an order instituting a committee to probe large scale illegal coal mining in Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve in Assam. The order was passed by the Eastern Zone Bench of the Tribunal upon hearing an application filed by Mr. Pradip Bhuyan. The applicant brought to fore large scale illegal coal mining activities being undertaken in Saleki...

National Green Tribunal Seeks Explanation For Granting Environment Clearance To Drill Oil In Assam National Park [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal ordered the Environment Ministry and State Pollution Control Board to submit a report explaining how it granted an Environment Clearance permitting Indian Oil Corporation to drill oil wells in the Dibru–Saikhowa National Park of Assam. Assam-based conservationists Bimal Gogoi and Mridu Paban Phukan appealed the Eastern Zone Bench of the National...

Karnataka HC Says It Will Stay Draft EIA Notification 2020 If Centre Does Not Publish It In Regional Languages

Expressing displeasure over the stand taken by the Central Government that it will not publish the draft Environment Impact Assessment, (EIA) notification issued on March 23, in the official languages of the states, the Karnataka High Court has decided to consider on August 5, consider the prayer to stay the notification. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice...

Draft EIA Notification 2020 : Karnataka HC Asks Centre To Consider Extending Time For Submitting Objections

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the Union Government to consider extending the time for submitting suggestions and objections to the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification issued on March 23. The last date for submitting suggestions/objections, as extended by the Delhi High Court, is August 11. The last date as per the original notification was June 30. A...

NGT Has Power To Issue General Directions For Future Guidance To Prevent Injury To Environment: SC [Read Judgment]

NGT's jurisdiction is remedial and not restitutionary, held the bench.

NGT Directs NTPC Power Plant To Deposit 10 Crore Interim Compensation For Dumping Fly Ash In Rihand Reservoir [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday directed NTPC Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station, situated in Madhya Pradesh, to deposit a sum of Rs. 10 crore with the State Pollution Control Board, towards interim compensation for environmental damage. The direction has come in an application filed by Advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, in wake of a breach in the "Fly Ash Dyke" of the...

Hubbali-Ankola Rail Line : Karnataka HC Extends Stay On Wildlife Board Decision Allowing Diversion Of Forest Land

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday extended the interim relief earlier granted directing that no further steps shall be taken on the decision taken by the State Board for Wildlife to allow diversion of 595.64 hectares of forest land for constructing railway line between Hubballi and Ankola. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice M Nagaprasanna turned down the request...