CII has proposed amending the Environment Protection Act and EIA rules to legally establish a unified Environmental and Climate Clearance Authority for faster approvals of low-risk and green projects ...

The SEIAA functions as the decision-making authority for granting environmental clearances, while the SEAC serves as its expert advisory arm ...

Worse still, they collapse entirely when the Court undoes its own carefully reasoned judgments. That is precisely the worry ...

Chandigarh: The Centre will reconstitute the State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) and State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC), two key bodies responsible for granting ...

The panel also sought the reasons for the differences in the average time required to obtain environment clearance (EC) and forest clearance (FC) for the projects.

New Delhi: In a move expected to unlock stalled investments and accelerate infrastructure growth, the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has decided that the time lost by ...

A split Supreme Court recalled one of its own judgments by 2:1 majority on Tuesday to allow “post facto” environmental clearance to infrastructure projects, ruling that demolishing errant structures ...

Supreme Court bench led by Justice B.R. Gavai overturns landmark environmental ruling; Justice Bhuyan’s dissent stresses prior EIA compliance.

Synda Obaji previously received funding from the Niger Delta Development Commission, Nigeria. Since 1972, when the first world conference on the environment was held, there have been various responses ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur to inform her upcoming report to the United Nations General Assembly in its eightieth session. This ...

Parliamentary panel urges faster environmental & forest clearances for coal mining projects. Reduce delays in public & ...