Prior Environmental Clearance in India: Supreme Court’s 2026 Ruling Ends the “Build First, Regularise Later” Era for Real Estate
India’s environmental clearance regime has just been redrawn by the Supreme Court. In its judgment dated 29 July 2026 in W.P.(C) No. 1394 of 2023 and connected matters, the Court held that prior environmental clearance (EC) under the EIA Notification, 2006 is mandatory and non-negotiable, upheld the 2017 Notification only as a narrow one-time violation-management […]
