Category Archive: Environment

No More Toxic Ships to Sail to India from USA or Europe

Exxon Valdez Prompts India’s Supreme Court to Blow Whistle on Toxic Ship breaking Beaches Faced with a petition from Indian-based ToxicsWatch Alliance, a leading environmental organization, India’s Supreme Court ruled on 30 July… Read More

Harvesting rainwater: can we move from tokenism to pragmatism?

Stella Paul is an environment and development Journalist. Her blog is here. It’s been a painful week in Hyderabad. First, chunks of black clouds hovered around in the sky all day long, while… Read More

Supreme Court seeks replies in asbestos laden ex Exxon Valdez Ship case

Entry, anchoring & inspection of dead US Ship in contempt of court’s order   Supreme Court seeks replies in asbestos laden ex Exxon Valdez case New Delhi, July 9, 2012 Hearing the matter… Read More

Supreme Court Bans Hazardous Waste Trade

  Central Government will have to comply with Basel Convention, ratify Basel Ban Amendment, re-draft its Hazardous Waste Rules, 2008  Fate of asbestos laden dead US ships Exxon Valdez and Delaware Trader seem… Read More

Kargil, still waiting for its Godot

Javed Naqi, a native of Kargil, is an Assistant Professor in Kashmir. He can be mailed at javednaqi@gmail.com. After years of demand for a tunnel across Zojila pass, the Indian Parliament, in March… Read More

Supreme Court Refuses Relief to dead US ship Exxon Valdez again, refers it to original bench

Court’s order, International and Indian laws should not be made subservient to US Government’s Ship Disposal Policy Environment Ministry’s Affidavit in dead US ship case contrary to its order in another US ship… Read More

Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us

  Abrahm Lustgarten writes about energy, water, climate change and anything else having to do with the environment. Before coming to ProPublica in 2008, he was a staff writer and contributor for Fortune,… Read More

All Left Parties Support Protest Against Asbestos Plant in Vaishali, Crucial Phase Begins

Dear All, Your letters of support in the matter of proposed asbestos plant in Muzaffarpur, Bihar State worked, the plant has been wound up in the of face villagers’ resistance, Bihar State Human… Read More

Bihar: A Tale of 3 Mukhiyas and Campaign for 2014 Elections

  Gopal Krishna is an environmental and civil rights activist and can be contacted at krishna1715@gmail.com. First, it was Tarkeshwar Giri, former Mukhiya of Jhakhra Sheikh panchayat of Marwan block in Muzaffarpur was… Read More

Somebody Else’s Atrocities

Noam Chomskyis one of the most important voices in the world today. On May 10, the Summer Olympics were inaugurated at the Greek birthplace of the ancient games. A few days before, virtually… Read More

Ex Exxon Valdez Refused Interim Relief for Entry by Supreme Court Citing UN’s Basel Convention

Ex Exxon Valdez Refused Interim Relief for Entry by Supreme Court Citing UN’s Basel Convention Intervention of Cabinet Committee on Security and Court’s Inter Ministerial Committee Needed  New Delhi 14/05/2012: Following the order… Read More