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		<title>Comments on Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 05:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 (Bill No. 80 of 2023) was introduced in Lok Sabha on March 29, 2023. The Bill amends the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 which provides for the conservation of forest land. The Act of 1980 is a self-contained law for preventing the diversion of forest land for non–forest purpose. The present [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fund Fallacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 07:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been two decades since the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (BD Act, 2002) of India was enactedby Parliament to conserve biological diversity, to ensure sustainable use of its components and fair andequitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of biological resources and knowledge associatedwith them. For meeting the various purposes of this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Curious Case of &#8220;Other&#8221; Coal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[India is one of the largest consumers of coal globally, ranking second after China in terms of coal usage (Statista, 2022). However, the country lacks documentation in terms of all of its sector specific usage. According to the Coal Controller’s Organisation (CCO), the power sector remains the largestcoal user in 2020-21 with 580.558 MT (84.03 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Conservation Compromised</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In India, the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (BD Act, 2002) was enacted by Parliament to conserve biological diversity, to ensure sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of biological resources and knowledge associated with them. In order to meet the objectives, the Act has kept [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Analysis of wildlife Clearances in India 2021 (Jan-Dec)</title>
		<link>https://thelifeindia.org.in/analysis-of-wildlife-clearances-in-india-2021-january-december/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This report highlights primary findings related to violations of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and the likely impacts of upcoming projects based on the examination of the minutes of the meetings of Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife in the calendar year 2021. Our analysis shows that during 2021, the number of proposals considered [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Review of Action Plan for Improving Air Quality of Dhanbad</title>
		<link>https://thelifeindia.org.in/review-of-action-plan-for-improving-air-quality-of-dhanbad/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has identified a list of polluted cities, which refers to cities which violate standards prescribed by the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS, 2009). The identification is based on the ambient air quality data obtained under the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP) during the period of 2011-2015. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Review of Revised  Action Plan for Korba</title>
		<link>https://thelifeindia.org.in/review-of-revised-action-plan-for-korba/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Korba, the power capital of Chhattisgarh, is among the 102 non-attainment cities. The city has around 8 large coal-fired thermal power plants producing over 6600 MW of electricity that cumulatively emit 36 tonnes of pollution per day01. It also holds Gevra, one of the world’s largest open cast coal mines and other major open cast [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Review of Comprehensive Action Plan for Clean Air for Non-Attainment Cities of Angul-Talcher</title>
		<link>https://thelifeindia.org.in/city-action-plan-of-angul-talcher/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Angul-Talcher is located in the central part of Odisha about 120 km from the state capital of Bhubaneswar. The industrial cluster of Angul-Talcher comes under the 24 critically polluted areas (CPA) specified by CPCB under the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) program – with a combined score of 82.09 which is the highest among the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Review of Action Plan for Clean Air Amritsar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The city of Amritsar built around the Golden Temple is representative of Sikhism world over. Founded by Sri Guru Ramdass, the fourth guru of the Sikhs in about 1574 A.D., the city gets its name from the Amrit Sarovar built by Guru Ramdass. Since then the city has inspired spirituality and simple living among millions. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Assessment of particulate matter in the Ambient Air of Barbil, Odisha</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The state of Odisha is largest producer of iron ore with highest number of mining lease.  In Odisha, the Barbil-Koira Valley falling within Keonjhar and Sundergarh district is having highest number of iron ore mines which produces largest quantity of India’s richest hematite iron deposit.  Operation of large number of iron ore mine in this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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