New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- The Supreme Court has strengthened the hands of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to impose higher environmental compensation (EC) on real estate projects, observing that if a company profits more from the scale of the project, it needs to bear more responsibility towards the environment. The order passed on Friday came in two appeals challenging separate orders passed by the NGT western zone bench at Pune imposing Rs.5 crore environment compensation on a Rs.335-crore project built by M/s Rhythm County in August 2022 and Rs.4.47 crore EC on a Rs.76-crore project developed by M/s Keystone Properties in September 2022. Dismissing both appeals, the bench of justices Dipankar Datta and VIjay Bishnoi said, "If a company has ...