A June 3 apex court order that all protected forest tracts and wildlife sanctuaries should have eco-sensitive zones of one kilometre from their boundaries has led to protests in Kerala. It is now thinking of bypassing the order
Supreme Court bench has directed Sankaranarayananin to file suggestions to the state governments in the matter. The Court has adjourned the matter for three weeks.
The ministry also relied on the remark made by the FSSAI that anything which is non-food (not consumed by humans) is not within the ambit of FSSAI Act, 2006 and concluded that animal feed is not regulated by FSSAI.
According to the Appeal in the Top Court, Tamil Nadu government has alleged that NGT without recording any reasons as contemplated in Rule 22(2) of Rules, 2011 proceeded to dispose off, despite the order under review was passed by the NGT Southern Bench.
The plea in Supreme Court was seeking to quash the notification by MOEF by which Matheran hill station of Maharashtra was declared as eco-sensitive zone, and it banned plying of vehicles except fire engine and ambulance.
The Delhi High Court has issued fresh notice to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and Road Transport & Highways in a plea against the Delhi Government's guidelines for Scrapping of Motor Vehicles Act of Delhi 2018.
A bench comprising Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel, Sheo Kumar Singh and Expert Member Nagin Nanda passed the order on a plea seeking to fix accountability for the death of an elephant
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has amended the 2006 Environment Impact Assessment notification while taking into account the outbreak of Covid-19 epidemic.