Nityanand Jayaraman

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Thiruverkadu, Thiruvallur, Cooum river, Chennai water crisis, Tamil Nadu drought, Kosasthalaiyar river, Poondi reservoir, Red Hills reservoir, groundwater, hand-pumps, Pallikaranai marshlands, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, top news, headlines,

We Parched the Country to Quench the City, and Chennai Still Cries for Help

plastic pollution, plastic waste, plastic waste import, special economic zones, MoEFCC, Union environment ministry, Basel Convention, Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules 2016, electronic waste, landfill, prior informed consent, plastic ban, single use plastics,

UN Report on Extinction and Planetary Crisis Links Economic Growth to Ecosystem Collapse

Cauvery basin, Cauvery delta, hydrocarbon extraction, seismic survey, airgun, produced water, heavy metal contamination, offshore drilling, Neduvasal, zooplankton, humpback whale, Minke whale, beluga, bearded seal, bowhead whale, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, proppant sand, aluminium silicate, nonylphenol ethoxylate, methylisothiazolinone, neurotoxic, genotoxic, boron, phenol formaldehyde resins, glyoxal, isotridecanol ethoxylate, TNPCB, Sterlite copper smelter, Vedanta Sterlite, Thoothukudi protest, ONGC,

Environmentally, India’s Hydrocarbon Sector Enjoys a Regulatory Free-for-all

Supreme Court Deals Double Blow to Vedanta Copper Smelter, Upbraids NGT as Well

Thoothukudi, Tuticorin, Sterlite copper, copper smelting, chimney stack, greenbelt, environmental impact assessment, air quality index, sulphur dioxide, SIPCOT industrial estate, SIPCOT, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, National Air Monitoring Program,

NGT Committee Finds Sterlite Violated Laws but Pleads for Leniency

Narendra Modi visiting the exhibition to review progress of Delhi-Meerut Expressway, in Delhi. Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari and MoS for Road Transport & Highways, Mansukh Mandviya are also seen. Credit: Twitter/MIB_India

Fast-Tracked TN Road Plan That Stalled Older, Green-Lit Project Smells of Cronyism

A '3D' view of Kattupalli as seen from above. Source: Google Maps

Meet Tamil Nadu’s Eight-Lane Expressway to Environmental Hell