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State’s move to grant six-month amnesty to firms operating without environment clearance fails to survive challenge in NGT, which deems it illegal.
Editor's note: Throwing environment protection norms to the wind seems to have become quite the fad. The latest to jump on to the bandwagon is the Haryana government, which in an order issued late last year, created a special six-month amnesty to grant post facto environment clearances to a group of 15 companies that manufacture carcinogenic formaldehyde, in complete violation of India’s main law for environment clearance, the Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2006. A review of official documents shows that the 11 November 2020 order, though temporary in nature and slightly different from the legal provisions in the central government’s draft EIA 2020 law, had the same effect: firms that had violated the EIA law could receive environment clearance even though they had begun operations without it. Over the past two years, the central government has been persistent in its efforts to draft a new law for environment clearance by replacing the 2006 EIA law. Two draft notifications, one issued in 2019 and the other in 2020, which proposed controversial provisions that sought to dilute environmental safeguards in the existing law have …
Divergent narratives from the Haryana government and the lender raise deeper questions on oversight, authorizations and systemic lapses—answers that may emerge only after a forensic audit.
The window to prevent the worst impacts of climate change has shut. The heat is on global leaders at the annual climate talks in Brazil to deliver more than just theatre.
The Kanjurmarg landfill, operated by Antony Waste Handling Cell Ltd., is safe from the axe for now. But its fate remains a major source of worry for the company's shareholders and the city's residents alike.
