RARE PHOTOS: 3 - The Real Truth

Centre tells NGT no need to bring slaughterhouses under EIA

Centre tells NGT no need to bring slaughterhouses under EIA, 2006 as existing guidelines are sufficient for regulation.

The Hindu · Mar 18, 2024

Madras High Court sets aside NGT’s order to six industries in Manali to create corpus fund

Madras High Court overturns NGT order on corpus fund creation for industries in Chennai, citing lack of scientific basis.

The Hindu · Mar 16, 2024

Higher levels of heavy metals in areas around the Bhopal gas tragedy site: Government report

The NGT had issued notices to the CGWA, the Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh, the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board, and the Central Pollution Control Board

The Hindu · Mar 16, 2024

Raising high stink: T.N.’s bulk waste disposal issues

Tamil Nadu's waste disposal norms are being violated by industries, leading to environmental degradation and public health risks.

The Hindu · Feb 3, 2024

NGT directs T.N. govt. to collect fee for immersing Vinayaka idols in waterbodies under the ‘polluters pay’ principle

NGT directs Tamil Nadu to fix fees for idol immersion in waterbodies to ensure pollution responsibility.

The Hindu · Jan 25, 2024

Madras High Court asks litigants to approach NGT to determine distance criteria between stone crushing units

Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy granted 10 days’ time for the litigants before the High Court to approach the NGT and said, an interim stay granted by the High Court in September 2019 to the TNPCB’s notification would expire after the period of 10 days.

The Hindu · Jan 9, 2024

NGT takes cognisance of The Hindu article on toxic waste at Bhopal gas tragedy site

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has taken suo moto cognisance of a report published by The Hindu that hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste on the premises of Bhopal gas tragedy site have not been disposed of by authorities, even after 39 years of the accident, leading to contamination of groundwater.

The Hindu · Jan 6, 2024

Ennore ammonia gas leak | NGT takes suo motu cognisance, directs TNPCB to file report

Ennore ammonia gas leak: NGT takes suo motu cognisance of ammonia gas leak in Ennore, TNPCB to file report on incident. The case has been listed for hearing on January 2, 2024.

The Hindu · Dec 27, 2023

NGT issues notice to Union, Karnataka and Kerala governments on dumping endosulfan in Minchinpadavu

In the first week of June 2013, Achuta Maniyani, the security guard at a PCK warehouse, soon after his retirement, claimed to have disposed off containers of unused endosulfan in an abandoned well under the instructions of PCK officials.

The Hindu · Dec 25, 2023

An oil spill in an ignored wetland in Tamil Nadu

Even as oil from the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited refinery flooded houses and entered the Buckingham Canal and the Kosasthalaiyar river, which empties into the Bay of Bengal, at Ennore, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board underplayed the extent of the ecological disaster.

The Hindu · Dec 17, 2023