EIA Watch

Anubha Aggarwal | Down to Earth Magazine The latest guidelines from the Union Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to prevent violations of green norms actually seem yet another attempt to weaken the  Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) regime. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) had asked the ministry to formulate a standard operatingRead More

The new rules will allow polluting units to expand their operations and change their product mix without full scrutiny, say experts.

Environmental experts note that the implementation of a new government order will make it easier for the violators to get their illegal projects regularised.

Pranav Narsaria | Down to Earth While the entire world is coping with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, our government is trying its best to finalise that the Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Notification 2020 (Draft EIA 2020). In this article, I will attempt to show the sheer disregard the governmentRead More

Kenny L. Khongsdier | Syllad.com In a time when the citizens of Meghalaya are plagued with the repercussions of climate change such as floods, landslides, loss of life and a pandemic while still trying to make ends meet for their family – the central government has decided to release theRead More

Anurag Mishra, Neha Mohanbabu, Krishna Anujan | Down to Earth

The proposal to weaken policies for environmental protection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) draft, 2020, has resulted in widespread public concern

Nikhil Ghanekar | IndiaSpend New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) on July 7, 2021 issued new standard operating procedures (SOPs) for dealing with cases of industrial projects that are operating without prior environmental clearance under the Environment Impact Notification (EIA), 2006. Action will be taken against projects that doRead More

Even the COVID-19 pandemic has been no deterrent for the current government which continued diluting environmental clearance norms to promote ‘ease of doing business’.

Bibek Bhattacharya | The Mint

The new draft Environment Impact Assessment notification will limit the principle of public participation in environmental clearances, warns conservation biologist Neha Sinha.

Sonali Huria | The Ecologist

The targeting of environmental justice groups shows how the Modi government’s criminalization of dissent is gaining pace.