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ex post facto environmental clearance
Coverage of ex post facto environmental clearance in the Nexus archive.
- The middle path | Explaining Supreme Court’s latest verdict on post facto environmental clearances
The Supreme Court quashed the Centre’s 2021 Office Memorandum on ex post facto environmental clearance, ruling that future amnesty under the Environment (Protection) Act must be issued via statutory notification, not administrative order, and apply only to projects of supervening public interest under the EIA framework.