With nearly 220,000 electric vehicles on U.S. roads, politicians and clean energy advocates believe it’s time to charge ahead further. Environment America‘s study, Driving Cleaner: More Electric Vehicles
Air pollution kills. In 2009, the Capital registered 10,900 premature deaths due to ambient particulate matter (PM) pollution. These were the findings of a study that was conducted to monitor the adverse
New Delhi: Delhi has the dirtiest air in the world but it hasn’t done anything about it in years. The benefits of CNG have dwindled with increasing vehicular population but the city’s second-generation
The Delhi government may be targeting private vehicles to check rising air pollution levels, but a study by IIT-Kanpur shows that cars and jeeps contribute less than 10% of particulate matter while trucks
Around 300 commercial vehicles have been fined a total of Rs 3.48 lakh in a fortnight of the pollution checking drive launched jointly by the state transport department, the district administration and
Though Delhi faces the same challenge in cleaning up its air as Beijing, the Indian Capital lacks the aggressive approach needed to protect public health, according to a study by the Centre for Science
<p>Urban air quality in most megacities has been found to be critical and Kolkata Metropolitan City is no exception to this. An analysis of ambient air quality in Kolkata was done by applying the Exceedance
The transport department has decided not to renew the route permits of commercial vehicles 15 years and older as part of the first concerted attempt with the environment department to implement the court
Following high court orders on vehicular pollution in Mumbai the transport commissionerate has released a list of authorised centres for Compressed Natural Gas conservation. For three wheelers or
The Supreme Court on Thursday threw its weight behind efforts to clean up Delhi's air, agreeing to explore various options including banning diesel cars from the Capital's roads and stopping trucks from
The Maidan will soon be mine, so it
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ramesh Chand Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2019 regarding degradation of Kullu and Manali in Himachal Pradesh in terms of
Presentation by Ray Minjares, Clean Air Program Lead at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
The city might boast of its stringent emission norms and the scrap policy for commercial vehicles ageing 15 years, but polluting vehicles go unchecked in the city. Thanks to poor monitoring. Majority
European trucks will be transformed to make driver cabs more aerodynamic, cutting emissions and improving safety, under new rules backed by EU politicians on Tuesday that could divide the industry due
West Bengal state transport minister Subhas Chakraborty gave transport operators two days in which to submit their opinion of the action plan drawn by the government to check vehicular pollution in
There might just be a way out of the vehicular pollution mess. A foreign private company which has developed a technology of emulsifying water with diesel claims that this can reduce particulate
The Department of Motor Traffic said producing a gas emission certificate would be made compulsory from June 22 to obtain revenue licences for motor vehicles in the Southern, Central and North Central Provinces.
Flanked on its three sides by busy roads and two bus stands, the hospital is at the epicentre of a cacophonic nightmare. Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) norms declare that area within 100 metres of any hospital should be a silent zone. But noise levels around the hospital are 59% beyond the prescribed 50 dB level. The situation at ESI Indiranagar and Victoria Hospital in KR Market too was no different, found a KSPCB study .
Owners of the diesel run automobiles are in for another dose of hike in the price of the oil as soon as the Central Government begins supplying ultra Low Sulphur Diesel to check vehicular pollution
