Tribunal to recover damages from Coca-Cola in Kerala
The Kerala government has decided to set up a tribunal to assess and realise compensation from Coca-Cola for the damage caused by its bottling plant at Plachimada, in Palakkad district
New panel to study Vedanta mine impact on tribals
The Dongria Kondhs of Lanjigarh in Orissa may have got some respite with the Ministry of Environment and Forests setting up another committee to reconsider how the proposed Vedanta mine in the area could affect the tribe
Global climate accord must include carbon budget, says India
Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh reiterated that India would not accept an international climate treaty that did not have at its base the principles of equity and equitable access to global atmospheric space
Cities getting hotter, faster
With the summer sun baking the earth and cities growing in number, hot cities will grow even hotter, says a new British study
British newspaper apologises to green panel
In what Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman RK Pachauri’s office calls a victory of sorts, a major British newspaper has tendered an apology for rubbishing a report used by the IPCC to highlight the risk to the Amazonian rainforest
Green India Mission is not 'business-as-usual', says Ramesh
Specialised environmental courts being set up under the National Green Tribunal will become operational within the next five months, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said in Pune recently
Centre to pay to clean up Bhopal
Even as it pursues its case to make Dow Chemical pay for cleaning up the Bhopal gas leak site, the Centre has decided to spend around Rs 250 crore towards complete remediation
Orissa CM agrees to visit Posco steel plant site
Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has given in to the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti’s demand that he visit the site, after meeting its representatives for the first time. The prominent anti-Posco group has said it will allow a preliminary survey in two of the seven villages after June 17 provided no policemen accompany the surveyors
PM seeks GoM report on Bhopal tragedy within 10 days
With questions being raised over the handling of the Bhopal gas tragedy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has directed the Group of Ministers to meet immediately and report to the Cabinet within 10 days
Bhopal citizens can sue for civil damages
Although disappointed by the first criminal verdict in the 1984 gas tragedy case, Bhopal’s citizens can file for civil damages at a new forum, the National Green Tribunal, soon to be headquartered in the city