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 …
bay dredging gets a go-ahead: A controversial plan to deepen the Port Phillip Bay in the Australian city of Melbourne will go ahead after project opponents lost a legal challenge in the federal court. The project by the Port of Melbourne Corporation plans to dredge 23 million cubic metres of …
the European Commission recently presented a proposal to turn environmental offences over to criminal courts across the European Union (eu). The proposal states that activities like unlawful dumping and storage of toxic materials, trade in endangered species and use of ozone-depleting substances, which were earlier penalised by imposing administrative sanctions …
This book endeavours to provide a relatively complete, comprehensive and valid account and analysis of problems of implementation of environmental laws in India. The approach of the book is to look into the problems with the comprehensiveness of both substantive and procedural aspects of environmental laws. The book contains all …
ngos in Gujarat recently demanded that each state in the country should have a separate environment court. "Gujarat has become the capital of special economic zones (sezs) and the sez Act and rules are diluting existing environment laws,' said Mahesh Pandya of Paryavaran Mitra, an environment activists group in Gujarat. …
With a view to arm the judiciary to combat environmental destruction, Indonesia has decided to train judges and prosecutors. At the end of the exercise, the government hopes the judges would be competent enough to handle eco-issues more effectively. "Indonesian law is extremely weak, while environmental problems are complex. We …
It's Thursday, and the bell of the Miguelete Tower, outside the Cathedral of Valencia in Spain, strikes twelve. Eight figures in black robes have assembled before Apostle's gate of the Cathedral, in a midday gathering reminiscent of mediaeval times. They are the s
when the Jharkhand High Court (hc) asked state pollution control board chairperson Balmukund Nath Shahdeo to assist it during the hearing of a pollution case relating to an industrial unit near Dhanbad, the official was blissfully ignorant of the matter. This prompted the hc to delve into his antecedents. Shahdeo's …
Charged with unlawfully handling, harvesting and processing conch and endangered sea turtles without a licence, the captain and chief mate of the vessel Thunder Ridge were each fined us $22,100 or 12 months in prison by a Jamaican court. This is the highest fine ever imposed in the country for …
A French ban on the import of British beef is illegal, ruled the European Court of Justice. France imposed the ban three years earlier following an outbreak of mad cow disease. Jean Mischo, the court's advocate-general, said that the French government could not refuse meat imported directly from the UK …
The Delhi high court has reprimanded the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the Archeological Survey of India as they have failed to identify polluting waterbodies in Delhi. The court called for immediate action and asked the heads of the government agencies concerned to file a status report by October 6, …
Environmentalists in Kenya have decided to file a lawsuit against the government on charges of deforestation. The forest forum sub-committee, an umbrella organisation of environmentalists, wants the government to annul its proposal to use 67,582 hectares of forestland in Rift Valley and central provinces for farming activities. Francis Nyenze, the …
in a far-reaching decision, the us Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) to set clean air standards, rejecting the industry's arguments that the economic costs of regulation must be weighed against the health benefits. "The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the usepa efforts to …
The European Commission said it would file a lawsuit against four European Union (eu) countries as they have been unsuccessful in implementing a law associated with controlling industrial pollution. Luxembourg's European Court of Justice will take legal action against Spain, Greece and Finland and the uk . The commission also …
a long-running court battle in Japan over air pollution from highway traffic ended in December 2000, with an out of court settlement. The Japanese government and the Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation agreed to cut vehicle exhaust emissions in return for a withdrawal of compensation claims from a group of residents …
the European Commission ( ec ) has decided to file a case against Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal and Austria in the European Court of Justice. ec would be doing so because these countries have failed to legislate laws for avoiding and limiting the consequences of major accidents involving dangerous …
Bangalore. A poor person's Silicon Valley. It's 11 am on July 5, 2000. The scene is Yavanika Auditorium. The occasion is what has come to be known as a public hearing. Outside the hall, protesters demand that farmers and members of the
In the early 1990s, the Birla-led Indo-Gulf Fertilisers Limited was scouting for land near Mangalore to establish a copper smelter plant. Tokur and surrounding villages near Baikampady were proposed as a possible site, an area full of paddy fields and plantations. In 1994, the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Parisarasakta Okkoota ( …
W hen you cry, in fact cry hoarse, and yet not be heard, what do you do? Experts contend that going to courts should be the last straw. "Firstly, there is a kind of misplaced loyalty towards the formal justice delivery mechanism as the be-all-and-end-all,' says Ramesh. Secondly, there is …
