NGT Directs State Pollution Control Board & Collector To Submit Action Taken Report Against Dumping Of Municipal Solid Waste In Wular Lake [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has directed the State Pollution Control Board and Collector of Baramula district (member secretary of state wetland authority) to submit an action taken report with regard to dumping of municipal solid waste in Wular lake, one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia located in the Baramulla district of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Coram...

Consider Giving Wide Publicity To Draft EIA Notification 2020 : Karnataka HC To Central Govt

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday asked the Union government to consider giving wide publicity to the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification issued on March 23, so that citizens can lodge their objections to it. The last date for submitting objections is August 11. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice M Nagaprasanna, while hearing a petition filed by...

Situation At Lonar Lake Pathetic, It Occurred Because Of Callous Indifference Of Authorities Responsible For Conservation of the Lake: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court in a sharp rebuke of state and local authorities on Monday observed that the situation at Lonar Lake in Buldhana district of Maharashtra was 'really pathetic' and the situation arose mainly because of the callous indifference of many of the authorities responsible for conservation and preservation of Lonar Crater Lake. Division bench of Justice SB Shukre and Justice...

Assam Oil & Gas Leak: NGT Defers Direction To Deposit Rs.25 Cr Till Formulation Of Disbursement Plan After OIL Assures Liability Will Be Discharged [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal last Thursday deferred the direction to Oil India Limited (OIL) to deposit an amount of Rs.25 crores with the District Magistrate, Tinsukia, Assam for the damage caused to the environment, and the extensive flora and fauna around the plant due to the oil and gas leak which took place at Baghjan Oil well set up by OIL. The bench of Chairperson Justice Adarsh...

Undermining Environmental Protection From Within: The Draft EIA Notification 2020

"Goals for conserving and sustainably using nature and achieving sustainability cannot be met by current trajectories, and goals for 2030 and beyond may only be achieved through transformative changes across economic, social, political and technological factors." -Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 2019 The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notifications were enacted by the Central Government in exercise of powers under Section 3(1)...

Delhi HC Directs Centre To Publish Draft EIA Notification 2020 In 22 Official Languages Within 10 Days [Read Order]

Looking to the "far reaching" consequences of the public consultation process, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Government to publish the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification, 2020 in all 22 official languages. The order has been passed by a division bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan in a petition filed by...

NGT Asks CPCB To Formulate Action Plan To Abate Harmful Impact Of Pesticides [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal has asked the Central Pollution Control Board to formulate an action plan in coordination with the State PCBs/PCCs to abate harmful impact of pesticides on human health and soil. A bench led by Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said "While certain steps are being taken to abate harmful impact of pesticides on human health and soil, monitoring needs to...

Draft EIA Notification 2020 : Areas Of Concern

In our modern world of individualized aspirations and scientific expertise, there are seldom any points of affiliation, except, perhaps our collective drive to swell development. We often tend to forget that the environment is one inevitable commonality that we all share. And in altering our perceptions towards the environment, we are probably compelling irretrievable consequences. Although there is some truth to the argument that the environment has similar effects on one and all and ...

Delhi HC Extends Time For Filing Objections To Draft EIA Notification 2020 Till August 11 [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday extended the time period granted by the Central Government for filing objections to the draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2020 till August 11.June 30 was the deadline set by the Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change for the objections.While taking note of the ambiguity that existed in the notification issued by the Ministry...

Green Activists Demand Withdrawal Of Proposed EIA Notification 2020; Says 'It Encourages Violations To Continue Undeterred'

Several groups of environmental activists have opposed the latest Environmental Impact Assessment draft notification issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change as going against India's stance to protect biodiversity, and against the agreements made in the Paris Climate Accord. Several experts, think tanks and environmental activists have sent objections and...

Assam Oil Well Fire: NGT Directs Oil India To Deposit Rs 25 Crores; Constitutes Committee For Probe [Read Order]

The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday directed Government-owned Oil India Limited (OIL), to deposit a sum of Rs. 25 Crores with the District Magistrate, Tinsukia District, Assam, in connection to a massive fire which exploded from OIL's Baghjan well. "In view of the prima facie case made out against OIL on the extent of damage caused to the environment and biodiversity, damage to...

Plea In NGT For Cancellation Of License Of Reliance Owned Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project, For Dumping Fly Ash In Rihand Reservoir [Read Petition]

Supreme Court Advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey has moved the NGT seeking cancellation of license of Reliance owned Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project, for deliberately throwing industrial garbage in the Rihand Reservoir, the only source of drinking water for people living in MP's Singrauli and UP's Sonebhadra districts. The Petitioner had earlier approached the Tribunal seeking implementation...