The Centre has told the National Green Tribunal that there is no requirement to include slaughterhouses and meat processing units within the scope of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006 as the existing guidelines and safeguards effectively regulate these entities from an environmental standpoint. Last year, animal rights activist Gauri Maulekhi approached the NGT, … Read more
Facing criticism over the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar says the document is in keeping with court rulings and the Environment Act and rules out any retrospective clearance. Excerpts from an interview with ET: Need for a new EIA notification The 2006 EIA notification has been amended 55 times. 230 … Read more
One cheerful fact that has come out of the Covid-19 lockdown has been the accounts of the environment becoming cleaner. This, and a growing awareness about air pollution, has made a larger number of Indians conscious of protecting the surroundings, say environment activists. However, the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2020, released by the … Read more