Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar | The Wire Science New Delhi: A number of environmental groups have raised objections to the Haryana Government’s push to a waste-to-energy (WTE) project at the Bandhwari landfill site in the Gurugram Aravalli. While questioning the need to expand the project from 15 MW to 25 MWRead More
Meenakshi Kapoor | IndiaSpend.com The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change made key dilutions in the law that regulates land use along India’s coastline after its draft was closed for public input, an IndiaSpend investigation shows. These dilutions in the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 2019, allowed for future easing of building restrictions in coastalRead More
The Centre is bent on diluting the public hearing process that is so central to assessing the environmental impact of industrial projects.
In the name of “strategic importance”, the Executive can now exempt any project from public consultation, thereby frustrating the whole objective of Environmental Impact Assessment.
‘Strategic’ nuclear plants may no longer require green clearance 
Waste-to-Energy project expansion in the Aravallis and a farcical public hearing 
Billions of years of evolutionary history, including of Western Ghats at risk 
Draft EIA 2020 will toll the death knell for Western Ghats, say experts 
Twin-tunnel link roads infrastructural project near Mumbai exempt from precautionary EIA study 
Endangered Landscapes