Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
Seeks detailed plan on handling of hazardous waste, oil spillage, radioactive materials The decision on environmental and costal regulatory zone (CRZ) clearance to Adani Group’s ship recycling facility near Mundra port in Kutch has been deferred with the expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) …
Worried over CBI inquiry into coal block allocations delaying the expansion work of Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC), its only energy PSU, Orissa has sought coal ministry’s intervention in getting previous approval for Manoharpur coal blocks. CBI is currently investigating alleged irregularities in awarding five coal blocks to three state-run …
The company has already shut down its 600,000 mtpa plant at Keonjhar Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has ordered to initiate legal action against Ardent Steel Limited (ASL), for running a pellet plant without obtaining environmental clearance. Accordingly, the forest and environment department of Odisha government has commenced …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has deferred the grant of environmental clearance to the 4,000-MW ultra mega power project (UMPP) at Bhedabahal in Odisha. The delay in environmental nod would delay the commissioning of the power plant and development of the attached mine to source coal. Nine power developers …
Environmental clearance was granted to a 300-MW hydroelectric power project on February 3 even as a Supreme Court order dated August 13, 2013 clearly said the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the State government must “not grant any further environmental clearance or forest clearance for any hydroelectric …
Ministry to seek more time from SC The environment appraisal committee (EAC) will shift out of the ambit of the environment ministry once the autonomous regulator is formed, it is learnt. The EAC will come under a regulatory authority which is yet to be constituted for the environment sector. The …
EAC also deliberated on the public hearing issues and commitments, and budgetary allocation made by the project authorities there under A high-level panel has recommended environment clearance to National Mineral Development Corp's (NMDC) underground coal mining projects in Madhya Pradesh but with riders. The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) after deliberation …
The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a petition filed against the partial shutdown of several manufacturing units in the Mundra Special Economic Zone over lack of environmental clearance to the SEZ. The Gujarat High Court had on January 14 shut 12 units of the Special Economic Zone run by …
Court asks ministry to look into APSEZ clearance issue within 30 days Monday’s order by the Gujarat High Court directing 12 units in the Mundra SEZ of the Adani Group to temporarily stop operations till the SEZ receives an environmental clearance is yet another indictment of the environment and forest …
A day after the Supreme Court set a March 31 deadline for establishing an environment regulator, the government said it was examining the order to work out how to proceed. The environment ministry was unwilling to disclose its plan of action. However, officials indicated that the government would be able …
Vested with the Herculean task of fast-tracking decisions on scores of large projects, environment minister M Veerappa Moily has embarked on a drive to reassign jobs to the key officials in his ministry, reports Kirtika Suneja in New Delhi. Moily has also reconstituted the various expert appraisal committees (EAC) of …
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Monday asked the ministry of environment and forests to set up a national environment regulator with offices in every state to “appraise and monitor” the process for granting green clearances and how the regulations are complied with. Industry expects the move to make …
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to set up within three months a national environment regulator with the power to appraise and clear projects. The regulator would be created under Section 3(3) of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, for appraising projects, enforcing environmental conditions and to impose penalties …
A key environmental panel has recommended clearance for two hydel power projects in the Siang river valley in Arunachal Pradesh. The two projects—Simang I and II totalling 133 MW—are located on the Simang, the right bank tributary of the Siang River. Projects in the Siang river basin are viewed as …
A nuclear power plant proposed to be set up in Haryana is one step short of getting the green clearance with a high-level panel of the environment ministry giving conditional nod. The decision to recommend green clearance to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) proposal for setting up …
UltraTech Cement's plant and 75-megawatt (Mw) captive power plant, with an investment of Rs 2,500 crore, have received approval from the expert appraisal committee under the ministry of environment. While an email sent to the company did not elicit any response, the ministry's clearance order showed the proposed plant would …
A committee under the ministry of environment and forests has given coastal regulation zone (CRZ) clearance to Indian Oil Corporation for setting up a 5-million-tonne LNG terminal at Ennore in Tamil Nadu. The Expert Appraisal Committee, which met last month, said all the issues raised in the public hearing held …
Shiv Sena threatens to explore legal course of action against nod The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) attached to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MOEF) has accorded conditional environment clearance to Tata Power for converting the latter’s 500-Mw Trombay power plant to operate on coal, in place of low …
The Expert Appraisal Committee for River Valley and Hydro Electric Project (EAC), formed by the Union ministry of environment and forests, has said the 120 MW Lower Kopili dam project, planned in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, is threatened by the high acidity of the Kopili river. The project has been …
VISL will soon invite requests for qualification for EPC contract, says Minister The Expert Appraisal Committee of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for projects relating to infrastructure development and Coastal Regulation Zone has recommended the accordance of environmental clearance for the Rs.5,000-crore deepwater container transhipment port proposed to …
