Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
A federal judge in Northern California has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency must produce new draft standards for ground-level ozone pollution, the main component of smog, by December. Paul Cort, a lawyer with Earthjustice, said the group is excited about the ruling but "disappointed that it took all of …
A divided U.S. appeals court on Monday revived efforts by oil companies to force the federal government to reimburse them for the cost to clean up a southern California site where they had dumped toxic sludge during World War Two. By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for …
Britain's high court will on Tuesday hold a pre-trial hearing ahead of a court case due to be held next year brought by around 15,000 members of Nigeria's Bodo community against oil giant Shell. The residents are seeking compensation from the British-Dutch company over two oil spills in 2008, having …
A divided U.S. appeals court on Monday revived efforts by oil companies to force the federal government to reimburse them for the cost to clean up a southern California site where they had dumped toxic sludge during World War Two. By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for …
Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over. Jules Melancon, the last remaining oyster fisherman on an island dotted with colorful houses …
A Chinese court has rejected a lawsuit filed by five residents from a major northwestern city after authorities said a cancer-inducing chemical had been found in tapwater at 20 times above national safety levels, state media reported on Tuesday. Levels of benzene, a cancer-inducing chemical, in Lanzhou's tap water rose …
Smog-hit China is set to pass a new law that would give Beijing more powers to shut polluting factories and punish officials, and even place protected regions off-limits to industrial development, scholars with knowledge of the situation said. Long-awaited amendments to China's 1989 Environmental Protection Law are expected to be …
GVK welcomes proposals from Land Court that the environmental authority and mining lease be granted for its coal project subject to conditions The Land Court of Queensland in Australia has granted conditional clearance to $10-billion Alpha Coal Mine project being developed by GVK Hancock, part of the Hyderabad-based GVK group. …
GVK-Hancock’s $10 bn Austalian coal project must meet green conditions. The Land Court of Queensland has granted conditional clearance to $10 billion coal project near Bowen in Australia being developed by the GVK group. In 2011, GVK had acquired 79 per cent stake in the Alpha Coal and Alpha West …
Federal judges on Monday pressed the Obama administration to explain delays that have plagued its implementation of the U.S. biofuel mandate, as the government attempted to fend off an oil industry challenge to renewable fuel use targets. In a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington D.C., the …
Judges at the highest U.N. court ordered Japan on Monday to halt whaling in the Antarctic, rejecting its long-held argument that the catch was for scientific purposes and not primarily for human consumption. Tokyo said it was disappointed but would abide by the decision, while activists said they hoped it …
Pune: The municipal court on Wednesday sentenced five persons to a month-long imprisonment and also fined them of Rs 5,000 each for cutting trees without obtaining the requisite permissions from the civic authorities. “On September 11, 2012, several trees included Teak, Mango, Coconut, Lemon and Jamun on the premises of …
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s administration violated state law in the way it withdrew from a regional program to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, a state appellate court ruled. New Jersey must begin amending or repealing the state’s climate-change regulations within 60 days, according to a three-judge panel in Trenton. Christie’s withdrawal …
A scathing judgment issued by a U.S. judge this week against their lawyer will cast a long shadow over cases filed in Canada, Brazil and Argentina, where the plaintiffs are seeking Chevron assets as payment because the oil giant no longer has a presence in Ecuador. U.S. District Judge Lewis …
A mobile court on Tuesday sealed off a water factory and penalised two others in Chittagong for producing substandard drinking water which is harmful to public health. The mobile court of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution, led by an executive magistrate, conducted a drive in the port city in the …
Political rallies have returned to the Brigade Parade Grounds in a big way. Between January 30 and February 9, the city underwent the ordeal of three major rallies organized by the Trinamool Congress, the BJP and the Left Front. Now, green activist Subhas Datta has approached Calcutta high court again, …
Six villages, opposing the Navi Mumbai International Airport, are considering taking the battle to court. A day after the state government made it clear that the villagers will get 22.5% of developed land as compensation and those opposing it will get a package according to the Union government's Land Acquisition …
Order of the High Court of Uttar Pradesh on damage to Taj Mahal by polluting industries particularly glass, 26/02/2014 in the matter of Northern India Glass Manufacturers Association Vs. Union of India & Ors.
A mobile court, led by executive magistrate Maruful Alam, fined six brick fields Tk 3.45 lakh at Kalapara upazila during a daylong drive on Tuesday. The court also seized 700 maunds of wood from a field in area alleging the field did not have licenses from the Deputy Commissioner and …
Reacting to developments taking place in US court regarding new 'evidence' on carbide plant, the non-government organizations working for the welfare of Bhopal gas tragedy victims have expressed hope that Madhya Pradesh government would use this opportunity to expedite clean up process at abandoned Union Carbide site. Activist Rachna Dhingra …
