Taking climate crisis to colleges: lessons in unlearning
A smattering of the insights we gleaned and the lessons we unlearned in talking climate emergency to college and school students.
Sharadha Narayanan, Senior Researcher
Where ease of doing business trumps environmental protection
The proposed EIA Notification- in its early draft- fails to evolve from the 2006 Notification, and disappointingly, tries to further weaken environmental safeguards imposed on polluting industries.
A decade of false starts and falling performance
At the start of this decade, when Tamil Nadu was reeling under an acute shortage of power, capacity addition to the tune of 50 GW was proposed. This report looks at the status of the proposed plants and finds that only one of them has been commissioned, and most others shelved.
EC amendment - a problematic proposal by IL&FS
A power company with many run-ins with the law proposes a significant change in its coal source and transport in Cuddalore, by seeking to amend its environmental clearance instead of conducting a fresh environment impact assessment. Timely community action against the plant’s violations stalls the amendment.