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Export Processing Zone of Kenya & 10 Ors v The National Environment Management Authority & 6 Ors (Supreme Court of Kenya) (Petition E021 of 2023) [2024] KESC 75 (KLR)(6 December 2024)Supreme Court of Kenya
2024
Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment Right to Life
Courts Environmental courts
Polluter Pays Principle
Pollution, Industrial
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Anthropogenic Disturbance of Caribbean Mangrove Ecosystems: Past Impacts, Present Trends, and Future Predictions
Caribbean Jamaica
Climate Change
Corporate Accountability
Economics Ecosystem Services
Financial Liability Natural resources damages
International Treaties
Marine and Coastal Mangroves
Pollution, Industrial Petroleum refineries
Pollution, Water Industrial water pollution
Public health
Sustainable Development
Tourism Coastal developments
Waste Industrial waste Municipal waste
Wildlife
Human-induced stresses on mangrove swamps along the Kenyan coast
2001
Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
Forests Ecosystems
Marine and Coastal Coastal zone management
Pollution, Industrial
Public Participation
Water Resources Groundwater
India — Vedanta Limited v. State of Tamil Nadu, and others W.P.No.5756 of 2019 (2020.08.18) (High Court of Madras) (Judgment) (Maintaining closure of the Sterlite copper smelter)
2020
South Asia India
Pollution, Air Industrial air pollution
Pollution, Industrial Copper smelters
India -- Sterlite Industries v. Union of India, Civil Appeal Nos. 2776-2783 of 2013 (Arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 28116-28123 of 2010) (Supreme Court of India) (2013/04/02) (judgment) (copper smelter, toxic gas leak, closure order)
2013
South Asia
Pollution, Industrial Copper smelters
India – Prafulla Samantray v. Union of India & ORS, Appeal 8/2011 (2012.03.30) (National Green Tribunal) (Order suspending environmental clearance for the POSCO project)
2012
South Asia
Environmental Impact Assessment
Pollution, Industrial Iron and steel plants
Mendoza, Beatriz Silvia y otros c/ Estado Nacional y otros (2008.07.08) (daños derivados de la contaminación ambiental del Río Matanza - Riachuelo) (English and Spanish)
2008
South America Argentina
Pollution, Industrial
Pollution, Water
India -- Lafarge India Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India and others CWP No.6802 of 2010 (2011.08.12) (High Court of Himachal Pradesh) (judgment setting aside enviromental clearance)
2011
South Asia
Environmental Impact Assessment
Mining Sand, gravel and aggregate mining
Pollution, Industrial Cement plants
India -- Vedanta Aluminium v. Union of India, WP(C) 19605/2010 (2011.07.19) (High Court of Orissa) (Judgment)
2011
South Asia India
Environmental Impact Assessment Enforcement
Pollution, Industrial
Nepal -- Prakash Mani Sharma, and others. v. Cabinet Secretariat, H.M.G, Singh Durbar, and others, writ 3027/2059 (2007.12.07) (Supreme Court of Nepal) (regulation of brick kilns in the Kathmandu valley)
2007
South Asia Nepal
Pollution, Industrial Brick kilns

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