Environment, Health and Safety
Environmental enforcement in India now moves faster than environmental permitting, which is the wrong way round and has to be managed.
What we do
We advise manufacturers, retailers, food businesses and infrastructure developers on environmental and safety obligations across states. Consent to establish and consent to operate, categorisation disputes with State Pollution Control Boards, and the multi-state categorisation exercises that arise where a business operates identical units under different state practices. Environmental clearance and the conditions that attach. Extended producer responsibility under the plastic, e-waste and battery frameworks, including registration, targets and the credit mechanisms. Hazardous waste authorisation. Factory, safety and occupational health compliance. Defence of enforcement action, closure directions and environmental compensation, before the Boards, the National Green Tribunal and the High Courts. Diligence on environmental exposure in acquisitions, where the liability follows the asset and rarely appears in the accounts.
Experience
The matters below are described without identifying the client, unless the client has consented in writing to being named.
