What is the scope of environmental law in India?
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The collection of laws, rules, and agreements that controls how humans interact with their environment is known as environmental law. Environmental law is required to address environmental challenges and safeguard natural resources. Environmental law encompasses a wide range of statutes, enactments, and rules aimed at minimizing environmental harm and guaranteeing appropriate management of the environment and its many ecosystems. Environmental law covers issues like water and air quality, hazardous waste, species protection, biodiversity, green initiatives, sustainability strategies, climate change, and others. Students who earn a post...more
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Hi Education Guide
The Courts have interpreted Article 32 and Fundamental Right to Life and Personal Liberty of Article 21 to include the right to pollution- free air and water. Court based its five comprehensive interim orders on the judicial understanding that environmental rights were to be implied into the scope of Article 21.
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