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 ...

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 ...

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

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has nullified the environmental clearances of five road segments ...

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 ...