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This guidebook aims to provide public interest environmental advocates with sufficient understanding to challenge oil and gas projects.
The case involved the protection of the Great Indian Bustard and the Lesser Florican, both described as being on the verge of extinction. M K Ranjitsinh & Ors. v Union of India & Ors., Supreme Court of India, Writ Petition…
A new in-depth report about Vietnam’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) was released in June 2024, outlining the problems with the financing, governance, energy solutions, and participation necessary to achieve a truly just transition. The report, ‘The Missing “Just” in…
The case involved a judicial review challenge to the planning decision issued for an airport on the island of Barbuda conducted without the benefit of proper EIA and public participation. A lower court dismissed the case for lack of standing…
Defamation claims were filed against environmental lawyers at the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) and several activists. The defendants raised a SLAPP defense, which the Court recognized as a legitimate defense in this interlocutory decision. Mining companies had filed defamation…
This report presents new estimates of the social cost of carbon, social cost of methane,
and social cost of nitrous oxide.
The High Court of Uttarakhand in India heard Sai Nath Seva Mandal v The State ofUttarakhand and others, Writ Petition (PIL) No. 80 of 2012, High Court of Uttarakhand (16March 2017), where the petitioner claimed that municipal waste from Kashipur…
In S.J.Jayaram v Corporation of Thiruvananthapuram, WP(C). No. 545 of 2012, High Courtof Kerala (14 September 2020), the petitioner claimed that the city of Thiruvananthapuram failedits statutory duty of collecting waste and disposing of it properly. The petitioner asserted that…
The following summary emphasizes portions of the National Green Tribunal (Tribunal)judgments and orders that address plastic pollution in the River Ganga. Through these ordersand many others, the Tribunal also imposed strict orders concerning industrial pollution,sewage treatment, waste disposal and other…
Study Number: 99 Author: Xiaoguang Ouyang, Fen Guo Abstract: Mangroves have been increasingly recognized for treating wastewater from aquaculture, sewage and other sources with the overwhelming urbanization trend. This study clarified the three paradigms of mangroves in disposing wastewater contaminants:…
