India, Aug. 14 -- Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Illegal dumping of municipal solid waste
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on August 9, 2019 directed the Nagar Palika Parishad of Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, to furnish a performance guarantee of Rs 10 lakh to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), for failing to comply with its order on solid waste management.
The case, filed for the compliance of orders passed by the NGT from 2016 to 2017, was against unregulated dumping of municipal solid waste in the flood plain area of Yamuna river. Also, burning of municipal solid and plastic waste was becoming an environmental hazard in Vrindavan ci...