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• Graded Response Action Plan to control air pollution in Delhi-NCR in ‘Very poor’ and ‘Severe’ categories comes into effect from October 17, 2017- says EPCA

  <p>This Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) came into effect from Oct 17, 2017 to prevent a repeat of the severe air pollution Delhi witnessed after Diwali last year. Measures under the GRAP&#39;s &#39;very poor&#39; and &#39;severe&#39; categories will remain in force till March 15, 2018 said Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) appointed by the Supreme Court.</p>

  • 18/10/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Air Pollution
    • Delhi
    • Air Pollution Control
    • Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA)
    • Supreme Court
    • Health Effects
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Diwali
    • Festival
    • Air Quality Monitoring
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Rajasthan
    • Haryana
    • Trucks
    • Vehicular Pollution
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
    • Solid Waste
    • Waste Management
    • Parking Policy

• Graded Response Action Plan to control air pollution in Delhi-NCR in ‘Very poor’ and ‘Severe’ categories comes into effect from October 17, 2017- says EPCA

  This Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) came into effect from Oct 17, 2017 to prevent a repeat of the severe air pollution Delhi witnessed after Diwali last year. Measures under the GRAP's 'very poor' and 'severe' categories will remain in force till March 15, 2018 said Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) appointed by the Supreme Court.

  • 18/10/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Air Pollution
    • Delhi
    • Air Pollution Control
    • Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA)
    • Supreme Court
    • Health Effects
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Diwali
    • Festival
    • Air Quality Monitoring
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Rajasthan
    • Haryana
    • Trucks
    • Vehicular Pollution
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
    • Solid Waste
    • Waste Management
    • Parking Policy

• Status and action to be taken Status and action to be taken under Graded Response Action Plan in Delhi NCR: EPCA Press Conference

  As the festival of Diwali and winter season draw near, Delhi-NCR is gearing up to meet the severe air quality challenge that it faces every year around this time. A Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) has

  • 17/10/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Air Pollution
    • Air Pollution Control
    • Delhi
    • Urban Air Quality
    • Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA)
    • Health Effects
    • Respiratory Diseases
    • RSPM (PM 10)
    • PM 2.5
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Vehicular Pollution
    • Congestion
    • Industrial Pollution

• Your Own Sun: A Manual on Solar Rooftop

  The manual explains everything a home owner/residential society needs to know about solar rooftop and how to install it.

  • 01/09/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Solar Energy
    • Electricity
    • India

• Antibiotic misuse in poultry farms leading to multi-drug resistant bacteria, says CSE’s new study

  Misuse of antibiotics in poultry farms is leading to a proliferation of multi-drug resistant bacteria. To make matters worse, these bacteria are now spreading in the environment because of unsafe disposal

  • 31/08/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Antibiotics
    • Poultry
    • India
    • Health Effects
    • CSE Study

• Antibiotic resistance in poultry environment

  Misuse of antibiotics in poultry farms is leading to a proliferation of multi-drug resistant bacteria. To make matters worse, these bacteria are now spreading in the environment because of unsafe disposal

  • 31/08/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Antibiotics
    • Poultry
    • Health Effects
    • India
    • CSE Study
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Haryana
    • Rajasthan
    • Punjab

• Antibiotic resistance in poultry environment: spread of resistance from poultry farm to agricultural field

  This new study establishes that poultry environment is a reservoir of multidrug resistant bacteria and points towards the role of litter in spreading ABR in the environment. Antibiotics are becoming increasingly

  • 31/08/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Antibiotics
    • Poultry
    • Agriculture
    • Health Effects
    • Waste Management
    • India
    • CSE Study

• Drought But Why? How India can fight the scourge by abandoning drought relief

  During 2014-2017 India was shaken by severe spells of drought that hit over 500 million people across geographical regions. Unlike in the past, these droughts did not spare the urban areas; metropolitan

  • 01/08/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Droughts
    • India
    • Agriculture
    • Drought Management
    • Drought Relief
    • Drought Prone Areas
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana-CSE

  <p><img alt="" src="http://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/Marathwada(1).jpg" style="width: 320px; height: 214px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is not

  • 21/07/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)
    • India
    • Agriculture
    • Farmers
    • Climate Change
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
    • Crop Insurance

• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: An Assessment

  Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released the first detailed independent evaluation and analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) – government’s flagship national agricultural insurance

  • 21/07/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)
    • Crop Insurance
    • India
    • Agriculture
    • Farmers
    • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)