India’s increasingly assertive
National Green Tribunal, launched last October, has made its most high-profile ruling to date by suspending the environmental license given to the South Korean company Posco for building a steel plant in the state of Orissa and ordering a fresh review by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).
The plant has faced stiff opposition from local people campaigning to save farmland and woodland. A government panel had been pushing for the license to be scrapped, but it was conditionally approved in January 2011.
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