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NGT declares Forest Clearance for Mahan Coal Ltd Invalid
“…It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot…
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NGT Renders Forest Clearance to Mahan Coal Ltd Invalid After SC verdict Greenpeace, MSS celebrate but vow to oppose any attempt to re-allocate. Mahan
Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, September 26, 2014: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today said the forest clearance granted to Essar and Hindalco’s Mahan Coal Ltd becomes invalid following the SC decision…
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Wagh Bakri commits to steps towards elimination of pesticides from tea cultivation. 40,000 citizens sign the petition asking tea companies to clean chai
25th September, New Delhi/Ahmedabad: In an encouraging turn of events, Wagh Bakri, the third largest packaged tea company in India has committed to support elimination of pesticides in tea cultivation,…
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Dirty Coal is shown the back door
For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.- Dr. Archie Carr The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to scrap 214 coal block…
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Dirty Coal is shown the red card today Forest dwellers in Mahan celebrate as SC cancels the coal block; Activists urge govt to spare forest areas from mining while auctioning new blocks
New Delhi, September 24, 2014: Greenpeace India today celebrated the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the coal scam and called the verdict a victory for the environment and the people…
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Climate summit comment: From Bihar, India, could distributed solar succeed where coal has failed?
India is a country where the centralised grid system for electricity has dominated the last 60 years and, largely, failed. In the cities blackouts are frequent, in the rural areas there is often no power at all. The grid doesn’t provide energy access to more than a third of the rural population. Despite a growing…
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Tea industry divided on the issue of pesticides. Greenpeace urges TGBL to commit to a holistic approach that helps eliminate pesticides from tea
September 11, 2014, New Delhi: Weeks after Greenpeace released its report “Trouble Brewing” highlighting the presence of toxic pesticide residues in tea, the tea industry remains divided on the issue.…
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End to the solar eclipse in Delhi?
15 May 2013 Delhi RE action outside Delhi energy minister Haroon Yusuf residence. © Greenpeace India So Delhi’s solar eclipse is finally receding. After two years of dilly-dallying and…
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‘Govt’s stand on speedy re-allocation can ride roughshod over environmental laws’: Greenpeace India. This signals the end of cheap coal and national largesse to private players
New Delhi, September 1, 2014: Greenpeace today observed that the NDA government’s submission to the Supreme Court on the coal scam hearing was an attempt to make light of the…
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Supreme Court Deems Mahan Coal Block Allocation Illegal
The Supreme Court deemed in an order on August 25 that all coal block allocations since 1993 are ‘illegal’ on grounds of arbitrariness, legal flaws lack of transparency, fairness and…
