CAG's letter to Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority raising objections to reclassification notification.
Letter to NGT requesting inclusion of Chennai in National Clean Air Programme non-attainment cities. Chennai is the only major polluted city and one of the 12 cities with a population of more than a million to be left out of the non-attainment cities list. Not being on this list leaves Chennai out of the national discourse on air pollution and its mitigation.
The draft National Resource Efficiency Policy was published by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in July 2019 with the aim to promote sustainable and efficient use of our natural resources. However, the Policy and the Action Plan it envisages for its implementation, raise several questions on its intent and efficacy to adequately address the issue.
This is the letter to the Expert Appraisal Committee - Thermal Power recommending a site visit to the Ennore Thermal Power Station - Expansion Project, about possible violations of its directive to TANGEDCO to refrain from any construction work after the expiry of Environmental Clearance for the project.
IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Company Limited (ITPCL), which runs a 1200 MW coal-based power plant in Cuddalore, is seeking to amend its Environmental Clearance (issu
IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Company Limited (ITPCL), which runs a 1200 MW coal-based power plant in Cuddalore, is seeking to amend its Environmental Clearance (issued in May 2010), to change the nat
CAG has submitted its opposition on to the "Draft Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 2018" put out by the MoEF&CC, GoI.
CAG has endorsed the joint statement issued by independent experts and nearly 100 groups, asking the government to address the cash crunch in ATMs and withdraw the FRDI Bill.
CAG has filed a petition against the "Draft Revised Coastal Zone Management Plan" uploaded by Department of Environment, GoTN. The documents uploaded and purported to be the Draft CZMP are not complete and have not been prepared in accordance with the CRZ Notifications, 2011, and are in contempt of the order of NGT (SZ), 2014.