Counter affidavit on behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in OA No 580 of 2022 Mukesh Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others. The report dated May 13, 2025 related to the Khadia Opencast Coal Mine Expansion Project located in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, and …
TAIYUAN -- North China's coal-rich Shanxi Province will relocate 4,000 rural households threatened by mining-triggered geological disasters this year, according to the provincial authorities. The project is part of the province's new rural geological disaster prevention scheme which started in 2014, aiming to complete the relocation of 27,000 households in …
The Environmental Protection Agency levied around half the average number of penalties against polluters in the first year of the Trump administration as in the same period of the past three presidential administrations, according to a report released Thursday. The decline was due to staff and budget cuts by U.S. …
The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement, and the health implications of these actions. It follows on from the work of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate …
VASCO: Vasco-based activist Advocate Savio J F Correia has recently petitioned the GSPCB by pointing out omissions by the board while enforcing six metres coal stack height at the Adani Berth at Mormugao Port Trust. In his petition to Chairman GSPCB, Correia said that the pollution board failed to enforce …
RAICHUR: Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL), managing director, Kumar Nayak, admitted that there is a massive shortage of coal. Nayak said owing to lack of rain and dearth of coal, power generation has dipped this financial year. He was speaking after visiting thermal power plants in Raichur. He charted some …
Developments in solar and energy storage technologies, downward revision of economic growth, and the NPA crises in the coal-consuming power and steel sectors were identified as some of the main challenges to coal in a study titled ‘Coal Vision 2030’. Coal India (CIL) commissioned the study to assess the future …
BENGALURU: Karnataka is in a spot over the National Green Tribunal (NGT) direction to the states to prepare a plan on disposing of fly ash generated by thermal power plants. The state produces a total of 41 lakh metric tonnes of fly ash every year and is now in a …
Babies' exposure to high levels of air pollution in the womb may lead to a type of DNA damage, typically associated with ageing, called telomere shortening, warned a study. Telomeres are the caps at the end of each strand of DNA that protect our chromosomes. Telomere shortening is the main …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of R. Sreedhar Vs Union of India & Others dated 25/01/2018 regarding illegal sand and boulders mining within the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary/Makum Pani Reserved Forest, Digboi Division, Assam. The Original Application pertains to : (i) illegal …
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has commissioned a study on “Economic Rate of Return for various Renewable Energy Technologies”. The objectives of the study include: economic impact of renewable energy; estimation of economic rate of return of various renewable energy technologies; comparing economic and financial rate of return; and …
NLCIL management earns appreciation for adopting self-sustaining mining methods Susheel Kumar, Secretary to Ministry of Coal has stressed the need for better environment management and higher safety measures in the mining sector to ensure ecological balance. Speaking at a national seminar organised by NLC India Limited on ‘Emerging Energy Scenario …
The MoEF had on December 7, 2015 issued a notification revising the standards for coal-based thermal power plants across the country that aimed to reduce emissions such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter, and regulate the amount of water consumption The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday directed the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of All Dimasa Students Union Dima Hasao Dist. Committee Vs. State of Meghalaya & Others dated 18/01/2018 regarding 6,44,169 metric tonnes of the declared coal lying unassessed by the authorities at Semingkri and the areas in its proximity, South Garo Hills-Bagmara, …
Exposure to household burning emissions and coal combustion were the main reasons behind 75 per cent of air pollution-related deaths in India in 2015 which came chiefly from rural areas, reveals a report. The report, by experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Bombay and the US-based Health Effects …
Global Rights Organisation has cautioned government against plans to generate 30 per cent of its energy needs from coal. The body pointed out that not only is coal power the largest single contributor to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, it is also responsible for 41 per cent …
Panaji: South West Port Ltd (SWPL), a unit of Jindal Steel Works (JSW), on Thursday challenged in the high court the Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) decision revoking the consent to operate for excess handling of coal at the Mormugao port and causing air pollution in Vasco. The board …
Demand that Government ask the authority to revisit its move; Accuse the coastal authority of succumbing to the coal lobby VASCO: Terming the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority’s (GCZMA) decision to recommend the Mormugao Port Trust’s (MPT) capital dredging project proposal to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change …
Pollution Control Board to decide on various matters including consent to operate to around 25 iron ore mining leases PANJIM: The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) will on Monday hear M/s Jindal South West Port Ltd (SWPL) on the issue of excess coal handling and consequent air pollution in …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Palwal Jithender Reddy Vs. Union of India & Others dated 08/01/2018 regarding operation of coal mines in Lodna area of Joyrampur Colliery near Dhanbad in the State of Jharkhand without any environmental clearance. NGT finds that …
PANJIM: In a revelation which exposes the manner in which the MPT and South West Port Limited (SWPL) went about its business of handling excess coal, literally snubbing Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), it is clear that the directive to reduce coal handling by 25 percent was merrily flouted …
