Weekly environmental information roundup from throughout totally different media networks for Week 6 (3 to 9 Feb) 2025.
1. Supreme Court slams government over pollution: Are power plant extensions a ‘license to pollute’?
In mild of the air air pollution disaster in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Courtroom on January 27, 2025, voiced its dissatisfaction and concern relating to the federal government’s resolution to supply energy crops with a further three-year extension to fulfill statutory emission requirements for sulphur dioxide and different pollution.
2. Delhi Election 2025: Are Sustainability Manifestos of Political Parties Addressing Poor Air Quality
Bryan Johnson, an American entrepreneur and a enterprise capitalist, had arrived in India as a visitor in Nikhil Kamath’s podcast however needed to go away halfway as he couldn’t bear Mumbai’s “dangerous air high quality”.
3. Compressed biogas offers a sustainable solution to Delhi’s pollution crisis: Report
The air pollution disaster in Delhi requires a large-scale shift in agricultural waste administration and compressed biogas affords a sustainable answer by tackling each stubble burning and vehicular emission, in line with a report.
Within the 22-km stretch between Wazirabad and Okhla in Delhi the place Yamuna flows, the Delhi Growth Authority and different businesses had been directed to take away encroachments within the floodplains in a 2019 order handed by the Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal and an April order final 12 months by the Delhi Excessive Courtroom.
5. FIR against Arvind Kejriwal for ‘poison in Yamuna’ remark hours before Delhi polls
With simply hours to go earlier than the Delhi Meeting elections, a case has been registered towards Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at Haryana’s Shahbad Police Station.
Overflowing cell bathrooms, rooms in poor situation, no ingesting water, blocked loos, no electrical energy—these are a few of key shortcomings of lodging offered to the central armed police forces deployed in 13,033 cubicles unfold throughout Delhi for Meeting elections.
7. Delhi’s kachra rajneeti has created a public health crisis in Bawana
About 17 villages in an space already burdened with a landfill oppose Delhi’s fifth waste plant, fearing it’s going to pollute their air, water, and land.
8. CPWD urges departments to prioritise use of recycled C&D waste
With authorities businesses in Delhi-NCR failing to fulfill the goal set for utilizing development and demolition waste recycled merchandise, the Central Public Work Division has requested all departments to ‘take satisfaction’ in consuming reprocessed waste generated from development, renovation, and demolition of concrete constructions similar to homes, roads, and bridges.
9. AIIMS launches unique waste conversion system
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi launched an automatic biomedical waste conversion rig on Monday, developed by CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram.
10. Delhi HC seeks action report on 249 unauthorised religious structures on public land
The Delhi Excessive Courtroom has directed town’s non secular committee to compile information from land-owning businesses on 249 unauthorised non secular constructions constructed on public land and submit an motion report on their elimination.
Dozens of civil society organisations, activists, and attorneys urged the Ministry of Surroundings, Forest, and Local weather Change to revoke the exemption given to white-category industries from the necessary consent requirement for environmental clearance from air pollution management authorities associated to air and water air pollution.
12. Retired foresters write to PM Modi seeking scrapping of Aravalli Zoo safari project
A bunch of 37 retired principal chief conservators of forests and different former Indian Forest Service officers from throughout the nation have not too long ago written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, opposing the proposed 10,000-acre Aravalli Zoo safari undertaking in Gurugram and Nuh districts of Haryana.
13. Haryana emphasises need to restore Aravallis
Haryana’s principal chief conservator of forests Dr Vivek Saxena on Thursday emphasised the urgency of restoring the Aravallis, and known as for collaborative efforts to rehabilitate the ecosystem.
14. Illegal trees cutting in Greater Noida not taken seriously by UP govt: NGT
The Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal has noticed that the unlawful felling of 980 bushes in Larger Noida was not taken critically by the Uttar Pradesh authorities, and requested the principal chief conservator of forest to seem nearly earlier than it on Might 13 to apprise it on the motion taken.
15. Aravali Green Wall project to combat desertification in 5 yrs, says minister
Because the Union surroundings ministry gears up for the formidable ‘Aravali Inexperienced Wall’ undertaking, it’s set to determine key damaged mountain chain areas and create a 5-10km buffer zone to preserve biodiversity.
16. SC imposes hefty fines for illegal tree felling in Taj Trapezium Zone
Unlawful tree felling in an space of 10,400 sq. kilometres across the Taj Mahal, referred to as the Taj Trapezium zone, will entice hefty fines of as much as ₹25,000 per tree, the Supreme Courtroom held on Tuesday, performing on a suggestion by an skilled panel proposing harsh measures to curb unlawful chopping of bushes in districts across the iconic monument as the present regulation failed to supply a deterrent.
17. Underground works in forest land for projects eco-friendly: Govt
The Union surroundings ministry has clarified that each one underground works in forest land linked to linear, irrigation, hydel, and different improvement tasks needs to be thought-about equal to underground mining, which is an environmentally-friendly exercise and exempt from compensatory afforestation.
18. SC to government: Don’t do anything that shrinks forests
As amendments introduced by Centre within the Forest (Conservation) Act has allegedly resulted in 1.97 lakh sq. km of land getting excluded from forest space, Supreme Courtroom on Monday restrained central and state govts from doing something which might result in discount of forest space within the nation.
19. UK stands up for working people by boosting economic, clean energy and climate links with India
The UK and India joined forces this week to unlock financial development from the clear power transition, supporting new jobs, creating export alternatives and tackling the local weather disaster.
