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 …
Silchar: People close to Minister Siddeque Ahmed had allegedly evicted a number of families and unlawfully grabbed forest land measuring nearly 1000 bighas at Bilbari Forest beat under Patherkandi Forest Range. Ahmed’s men had also allegedly burnt down a good number of trees and chased away the poor people who …
Pray for early closure of Kudankulam power project Around 300 anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protestors took out a procession with milk pots from Kudankulam to Sri Vishwamithra Temple at Vijayapathi and offered special puja on Sunday with the only prayer of permanent closure of the nuclear plant. Led by anti-KKNPP …
New Delhi: Even as questions are being raised about the timing of Babu Singh Kushwaha’s arrest on the last day of the seventh phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, highly placed sources said two more prominent arrests are likely in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam before the votes …
The oil giant Shell filed suit in federal court in Alaska last week against a dozen environmental groups, employing a rare — and rarely successful — legal gambit in an effort to pre-empt anticipated legal challenges to its plans to begin exploration in the Arctic Ocean this summer. Was the …
The All Kerala Water Authority Employees Union has come out against the recommendation of the National Planning Commission to privatise water-delivery services in the country. Addressing a press conference here on Friday to announce the 12th State conference of the union, beginning at Nalanda Auditorium on Saturday, its office-bearers said …
A mobile court on Thursday afternoon shut down three brick kilns at Bagmara and Rahimabad villages in Sadar upazila on charges of violating rules. The owners of the brick fields--Sarwar Hossain, Sheikh Abdul Khaleque and Jummu Paik--were also fined Tk 26,000 by the court of the Department of Environment (DoE). …
Environment and Forest Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday informed the House that a total of 109.94 tonnes of polythene were seized in last three years of the current government.Replying to a scripted question from treasury bench member Asma Zerin Jhumu, the minister also said that the concerned authorities realized …
BP and the lawyers for plaintiffs in the trial over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have agreed to settle their case. Judge Carl J. Barbier of Federal District Court in New Orleans issued an order late Friday night stating that the two sides “have reached an …
Ecuadorian plaintiffs in an environmental lawsuit against Chevron Corp. (CVX) said Friday they will soon be able to begin a process in foreign countries to pursue a multibillion-dollar ruling issued by Ecuadorian courts against the U.S. company. Plaintiffs' lawyers have said their strategy to collect the money will include confiscating …
The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority by moving to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and industrial facilities, industry groups and representatives argued in federal court on Wednesday. In the second day of two-day arguments on a case seeking to overturn the agency's proposed greenhouse gas regulations, challengers …
Heavy industry groups and states argued in a federal court on Tuesday that U.S. environmental regulators had used faulty science in determining that greenhouse gas emissions endangered human health in the latest attempt to dismantle the Obama administration's rules on the emissions. During the first of two days of arguments …
NEW DELHI: Six Delhi University professors were summoned by a court on Monday to explain their alleged criminal culpability in the death of one person and critical injuries caused to seven others in 2010 due to radiation from a radioactive irradiator, disposed of in a scrap market here. The professors …
A federal class-action lawsuit brought last year by a consortium of farmers against the agricultural and chemical company Monsanto was dismissed Monday by Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of Federal District Court. The plaintiffs, none of whom use Monsanto’s products, are seeking to have the company’s agricultural patents invalidated. They said …
Repeated court orders fail to save part of the primitive mountain range in Alwar from mining Call it sheer callousness of the Rajasthan government or connivance between administrative officials and mining mafia, two hills of the primitive Aravalli mountain range have been literally razed to the ground and beyond within …
Republicans on the campaign trail have long bashed President Barack Obama's environmental regulations. This week the battle moves to the courtroom, where several industries and GOP lawmakers are trying to overturn the administration's rules for reducing greenhouse gases. Industry groups, including those representing chemical, energy, farming and mining interests, have …
France asked the European Commission on Monday to suspend authorization to plant Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) MON810 corn, the environment ministry said, as the country seeks to keep a ban on GM crops despite losing court rulings. France banned in 2008 the growing of MON810 corn, the only GM crop …
An arbitration panel reinforced an order that Ecuador's government seek to suspend an $18 billion court award against U.S. oil company Chevron Corp over pollution in the South American country's rainforest. A year after its original order, the three-person panel, working under The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration, told the …
Pakistan has informed the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) that the diversion of River Neelum’s water by India’s controversial Kishanganga project can treacherously decrease the water availability in River Neelum by 14 percent, which will consequently cause Pakistan an annual loss of $321 million. The PCA, which happens to be …
Environmental and clean energy groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday in federal court to block the building of the first nuclear power plant in the United States in more than 30 years. The groups say designs for the plant, in Waynesboro, Ga., do not sufficiently account for safety, environmental or …
A minority partner in BP’s blown-out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico agreed on Friday to pay $90 million in a settlement with the federal government and gulf states over the disastrous 2010 oil spill. The Justice Department said the agreement was the largest civil penalty ever recovered under …
