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Summary of Important News Items and Editorials- 269
THE HINDU DATED 30th July 2026
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1. Supreme Court restricts retrospective environmental clearances
The Supreme Court ruled against the routine grant of retrospective environmental clearances to projects that commenced operations without obtaining prior approval. It held that environmental clearance is intended to operate as a preventive safeguard, not as a post-facto regularisation mechanism. The logic is that prior assessment enables authorities to study ecological risks before irreversible damage occurs, whereas retrospective approval can reward violations and weaken deterrence. The Court clarified that limited amnesty may be created through a proper statutory notification, but not through executive memoranda that dilute the parent environmental law. Its stand reinforces the precautionary pr
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