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Courts, tribunals and environmental jurisprudence
Environmental law made by judges: Supreme Court and High Court judgments, the National Green Tribunal, principles such as polluter pays and precaution, and climate litigation. Prelims has asked how the National Green Tribunal differs from the Central Pollution Control Board.
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2018: how the National Green Tribunal differs from the Central Pollution Control Board
No subject here changed from 16 to 31 August 2026.Show all
Also filed elsewhere
- The Agasthyamalai evictions · on Forest laws and forest rights
An encroacher and a recognised rights holder can be standing on the same patch of forest, and an order to clear one of them reaches the other.
- The Jojari · on Water pollution and river rejuvenation
The Jojari carries industrial effluent rather than sewage, and the remedy asked of the court was distance rather than treatment.
- Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 · on Solid and plastic waste
Waste rules are read as instructions to a municipality, and that is the half a student remembers.