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North India air pollution: Environment Secretary calls for high-level meeting with four state Chief Secys
By IANS
NEW DELHI: The Union Environment Secretary called a high-level meeting on Monday with the Chief Secretaries of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the severe air pollution in these northern states.
Secretary, Ministry of Environment, … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | Air Emergency: Environment Secy to meet 4 Chief Secys
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) The Union Environment Secretary called a high-level meeting on Monday on air pollution with the Chief Secretaries of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the severe air pollution in these northern states.
Secretary, … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | Logging, charcoal burning persist in Mabira Forest
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Charcoal burning and illegal logging persists in Mabira forest despite the deployment of Local Defense Unit-LDU personnel and army officers attached to the National Forestry Authority-NFA.
The forest sections of Nagojje in … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | Adrian Raeside on the environment
There is nothing funny about environmental concerns, so it might seem odd that over the past 40 years, one of our most outspoken advocates for sustainability has been cartoonist Adrian Raeside.
But let’s be clear: The cartoons that appear on editorial … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | Conservationists criticize latest old-growth forest panel. Say action needed — not more talk
The province will spend months collecting more public feedback on how old-growth trees should be protected or cut down in yet another round of engagement over new rules for forestry and conservation in B.C. The Old Growth Strategic Review follows a similar … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | India drops plan to let forest officials use force after protests
Proposed amendments to a century-old Indian Forest Act aimed to give officials the power to arrest and shoot at encroachers and earmark more land for reforestation, but land rights groups said this would make forest dwellers vulnerable to eviction.
The … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | Centre drops plan to bring in changes to Forest Act of 1927
The Union Environment Ministry on Friday withdrew a draft amendment that proposed updates to the Indian Forest Act, 1927. Activist groups and some State governments had protested this proposed law after it was mooted in March.
Union Environment Minister … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | Govt withdraws ‘Officer’s’ draft on amendment to Forest Act
New Delhi: Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday announced the withdrawal of the draft amendment to the Forest Act, 1927, that had sparked a controversy over its approach towards forest dwellers and provisions for additional indemnity to … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | Govt withdraws draft forest law that triggered protests
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar and Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda address the media in Delhi on Friday. PTI
Ahead of the Assembly elections in Jharkhand, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
| | | Environment chief sued for allowing 'illegal' operation of coffee plantation
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, November 15) — An indigenous people's group on Friday filed a case against Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu for neglect of duty, saying he did not block the "illegal" operation of a coffee plantation in … Monday, November 18, 2019 3:24 am EST
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