Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Pollution
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Better Energy-Saving Bulbs
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Time For A Fair Discussion On Black Soot
A recent NY Times articles brings to fore the contribution of Soot, also known as Black Carbon, in the global warming. And how efforts are underway to reign in the global warming by replacing the mud-stoves in villages of India! On the Earth day, a legislation was introduced in US Senate for EPA to assess the options for reducing the black carbon pollution.
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China Aims To Advance Thermal Plant Closures Plan
China plans to close 15 gigawatts (GW) of small coal-fired power generators this year, as part of measures to improve energy efficiency and reduce pollution, the National Development and Reform Commission said on Monday. If the goal is achieved, the country will close a total of nearly 50 GW by the end of this year that had been planned for the five years through 2010.
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Refitted to Bury Emissions, Plant Draws Attention
Poking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here are two wells that look much like those that draw natural gas to the surface. But these are about to do something new: inject a power plant
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Power Ministry pulls up states
Just three days after the northern power grid collapsed, the Union Power Ministry has pulled the northern states for the lapse and has asked all of them to file a status report on adopting new anti-fog technology for protecting the grid. The information has been sought till January 8.
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Dhanbad to seal fate of 1280
Dhanbad, June 17: Branded one of the most of the polluted cities of the country, Dhanbad lacks even the most basic civic infrastructure. A faulty drainage system, erratic power supply, ill-planned colonies, shortage of drinking water and diminishing employment opportunities typify the coal capital.
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China surpasses US as the worlds top energy consumer
China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. China immediately questioned the report, claiming its calculations were
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Senate passes Alternative Energy Development Board Bill 2010
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Tuesday passed the Alternative Energy Development Board Bill 2010, approving the establishment of an Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) that will substitute the Alternative Energy Development Board Ordinance 2007.
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Solar power to be must for mobile towers
THE government will make it mandatory for mobile phone towers to be powered by solar energy, a move it hopes will cut pollution and tamp down a key driver of diesel consumption in the country.