Introduction

•  Environmental Crisis
•  Environmental Imperatives 
•  Constitutional Response to International Urge

 Industrial Pollution

•  Magnitude of the Problem
•  Hazardous Industries and Environmental Pollution
•  Industrial Pollution and Health Hazards

 Legal Control of Hazardous Substances and Process

•  Proliferation of Chemicals
•  Law Relating to Hazardous Substances
•  Legal Control of Hazardous Processes
•  Rules on Hazardous Substances

 Law Relating to Water Pollution

•  Water Pollution
•  Civil Law Actions
•  Legislative Measures
•  The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 

 Industrial Air Pollution and Law

•  Industrialization and Air Pollution
•  Civil Law Actions
•  Statutory Provisions

 Enforcement Machinery

•  Administrative Efforts to Combat the Hazards of Pollution
•  Central Pollution Control Board
•  State Pollution Control Boards
•  Supreme Court Decisions and the Directions
•  Pollution Control in Highly Polluting Industries
•  Coordination Activities of Pollution Control Boards
•  Penal Provisions and Effectiveness of Enforcement Machinery
•  Financial Constraints and Assistance
•  The National Environment Tribunal

 Environmental Issues and Judicial Trend

•  Environmental Pollution and Courts’ Concern
•  Public Nuisance Environmental Hazards
•  Right to Wholesome Environment and Ecological Balance
•  Right to Carry on Trade vis-a-vis Duty to Protect Environment
•  Right to Information about Hazardous Installations
•  Public Access to Environmental Justice
•  Doctrine of Mass Justice and Emergence of Public Interest Litigation
•  Public Interest Litigation and Access to Environmental Justice
•  Role of Indian Judiciary
•  Environmental Concerns of the Indian High Courts
•  Basis for Entertaining the Environmental Petitions
•  Liberalized Standing Rules vis-a-vis Restraints on Public Interest Petitions
•  Conclusion

 Corporate Environmental Liability

•  Tortuous Liability for Pollution Accidents
•  Pollution Accidents and Victim
•  Rules of Strict and Victims
•  Rules of Strict and Absolute Liability
•  Responsibility of Executives
•  Quantification of Compensation
•  Bhopal Settlement
•  Bhopal Act

 Statutory Relief for Pollution Victims

•  Public Liability Insurance Act
•  Liability of the Owner
•  Settlement of Claims
•  Environment Relief Fund
•  Limitation and Scale of Relief
•  Regulatory and Penal Provisions
•  Advisory Committee

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