Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
This unpublished CPCB report on “Mercury balance in Thermal Power Plants in Singrauli” received by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) through RTI is exclusively available here. An attempt was made in this study to investigate the fate of mercury during burning of coal in thermal plants and to prepare …
british politicians are facing one disaster after another but the way they are facing them should be a lesson for the tribe that exists in India. As in our country, the high fuel prices have become a source of major contention and with fuel blockades being threatened there is panic …
Special editions of the 6th Conference of Parties (CoP-6) to the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), The Hague, The Netherlands, 13 - 24 November, 2000.
it was inevitable. The international prices of oil rose. And on September 29, 2000 India followed suit and hiked the prices of all petroleum products. The hike, the government estimates, will help mop up an additional Rs 7,580 crore during the current fiscal year. Diesel's pre-tax price increased by Rs …
The government has now decided to raise the price of oil in India but nobody is talking about conserving oil. The only major reaction we have got from our political leaders is a resignation in protest against the price hike from railways minister Mamata Bannerjee. Her argument is simple. The …
As the international crude oil crisis worsensits tremors are being felt in India. Seventy per cent of India’s oil is imported. The country’s oil import bill which was Rs 530crore in 1999is expected to be more than Rs 800crore this year. Most of this is due to the international oil …
The Indian government subsidises certain petroleum products like diesel This encourages consumers to switch from expensive petrol to cheap diesel Diesel emissions are more harmful than petrol emissions Increase in diesel vehicles means more pollution More pollution will only results in more health problems Subsidy keeps fuel use inefficient. Freight …
steel industry: To produce one tonne of steel, India spends 9.5 million kilocalories. In Italy it is 4.3 million kilocalories and for Japan it is only 4.1 million kilocalories. cement industry: Over 2 million kilocalories are used to produce one tonne of cement in India. In Germany it is 0.82 …
It has shaken the confidence of the new Europe. Oil crisesfuel shortagesstreet blockades and protests that had become commonplace during the 1970s oil shortagehave come back to haunt Europe once again. Over the past few weeksas the price of oil touched a 10-year high of us $35 a barrel
Diesel is under-prised by Rs 5. The government claims that it is used by farmers for their tubewells and tractors. But a major share of diesel is used by trucks and other heavy commercial vehicles. A cabinet decision was taken in November 1997 to deregulate diesel prices. But for the …
Disgruntled truckdrivers may have taken to the streets. Farmers, ambulance and taxidrivers may have joined them, too. But by relenting to their demands to reduce the tax on fuel oil following a sudden jump in the price of crude, the French government has set a harmful precedent. The rise in …
western civil society, it seems, has decided to go global and represent the world without any effort to understand what constitutes democracy and fairness from the point of view of poorer countries. Several Northern groups are now urging their governments to use their influence on international financial institutions, and stop …
can it really be that petrol is now over us $0.40 per litre, when it was less than us $ 0.26 just a year ago? The anguished howls of drivers can be heard at every gas station. Truck drivers and airlines add surcharges to cover the unexpected rise in price, …
In 1981-82, some farmers from Hoshiarpur and Nawanshehar districts approached scientists at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana. Their wheat crops had turned white, animals were diseased with healthy cattle dying within months of purchase. Soil analysis indicated selenium (Se) levels above toxic limits in an area of 1,000 hectares of …
The burning of fossil fuels leads to the release of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere. Once in the atmosphere, these gases act like glass walls and trap heat on the Earth's surface. If the rise in carbon emissions goes unchecked, the planet's average temperature could rise by …
Humans have not being able to shed their reliance on fossil fuels. Every year, millions of tonnes of coal and oil is burned to produce energy. As a result, carbon locked in the Earth is being released into the atmosphere. This has led to a significant increase in the Earth's …
India's Union minister for petroleum, Ram Naik, lives in the dinosaur age. Only Indian politics can throw up such archaic thinkers, given the pits it has reached. At the 16th World Petroleum Congress, held recent in Calgary, where some 2,000 people were demonstrating and asking for public policies to bring …
The forest fires of 1997 and 1998 created enormous ecological damage and human suffering and helped focus world attention on what is an increasing problem. This report is a follow-up to the WWF International Discussion Paper The Year the World Caught Fire which was published in December 1997. However, eighteen …
mirrors orbiting outer space; giant reflectors between the Earth and the Sun; trillions of helium balloons in the air. Does this read like a sci-fi script to you? These are some of the rather elaborate solutions to counter the rising carbon dioxide ( co2 ) levels in the atmosphere. These …
There is something truly wrong with the Indian media. The manner in which it went overboard with the recent Clinton visit is not the only thing. But its exclusive focus on the political dimensions of his visit , important undoubtedly, totally neglecting its economic, scientific and environmental dimensions, amounts to …
