Order of the High Court of Rajasthan in the matter of Deepak Acharya Vs Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited dated 05/03/2025. The Rajasthan High Court has admitted a petition challenging installation of a Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) petrol pump near a crematorium and high-tension line. The NOCs to establish the …
The Supreme Court in its order of 4.10.1999 called for suggestions regarding emissions control from two-wheelers and three-wheelers. The EPCA, in its earlier report of August, 1999, had made a brief recommendation that on scooters, which are high emitters of particulate, suggesting that the norms be tightened further, and the …
The Supreme Court in its order of 4.10.1999 called for suggestions regarding emissions control from two-wheelers and three-wheelers. The EPCA, in its earlier report of August, 1999, has made a brief recommendation that on scooters, which are high emitters of particulate, suggesting that the norms be tightened further, and the …
The state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan said it would gradually phase out its premium gasoline and replace it with 98-octane unleaded gasoline in 2000 to help reduce pollution. All production and selling of the leaded premium gasoline would be stopped beginning 2000, a spokesperson for the state oil corporation …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M.C. Mehta vs Union Of India & Others on 29 April, 1999 regarding rising vehicular pollution in the National Capital Region (NCR). Bhure Lal Committee in its Report submitted to Supreme Court on April 1, 1999 has indicated that …
A flourishing racket of petrol, diesel and mobile oil adulteration is going on in Delhi, according to reports in the media. According to police sources, most of petrol adulteration is either done through underground hidden tanks in the petrol pumps or while the petrol is in transit in tankers. "The …
A recent patent from British Petroleum (BP) makes a disturbing admission: piston-engined aircraft need such high-octane fuel that tetraethyl lead is still added to it to keep its octane rating up. So while all new cars can now use unleaded fuel, aircraft engines are still dropping lead from the sky. …
SCIENTISTS all over the world are working hard to find alternative energy sources which are environment friendly. Stephen Paul of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, is also one of them. Paul who has done research on nuclear fusion, believes that waste hydrocarbons might still be useful as vehicle fuels, …
leaded petrol will be phased out across much of the developed world by the year 2005 in order to help reduce emissions of toxic heavy metals. The us, Canada and European countries pledged to stop sales of the fuel in a recent summit of environmental ministers from 54 nations held …
Petrol in Sweden will contain less sulphur than any in Europe by the year 2000. Swedish oil companies recently agreed to switch to petrol containing fewer than 50 parts sulphur per million (ppm). Planned European legislation will set a higher limit of 150 ppm. Rolf Annerberg, director-general of the Swedish …
Dumping sugar into the petrol tank may be just the ticket for cleaner air and cheaper fuel. Sugars and starches such as glucose, dextrose and even cellulose in mowed grass and other plant waste would be converted into hydrogen
To enforce the use of unleaded petrol in existing two-and three-wheeler vehicles, the Supreme Court of India recently directed the Union government to submit a scheme for supply of unleaded petrol initially in Delhi to fulfil the requirements of 2.2 million two and three-wheeler owners. The court gave the order …
the pathbreaking innovation of P Ramar, the young south Indian farmer who has developed a process for producing a petroleum-like fuel from water and a few plant leaves ( Down To Earth , Vol 5, No 6), is now a national issue. Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has been …
petrol from water? That too in India, a country surrounded by water on all three sides! Imagine the entire world's petro-dollar industry becoming petro-rupee? No jokes. No magic. A young Indian farmer showed how to do it, leaving awestruck the top scientists of some of the most respectable institutions in …
Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequencies were deter mined in peripheral lymphocytes from traffic policemen drawn from various busy traffic points of Madras metro in India. These policemen were under constant exposure to automobile exhaust pollution during their 8 h work schedule. Analysis of SCE frequencies revealed a sig nificantly greater …
BETTER late than never, Sri Lanka's market gets lead-free petrol for the first time from this year, thanks to prolonged lobbying by environmentalists. "This was essentially a follow-up to numerous requests made by environmentalists," said Eric Nanaykkara, deputy general manager of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation - the country's sole petrol …
The Government of India announced its decision in 1973 to set up a 6 million tonne per year Petroleum Oil Refinery at Mathura under the Indian Oil Corporation of India. Some apprehensions were expressed about the possible adverse effects on the historic monuments in the Agra-Mathura region from the gaseous …
From March 1, 1995, the Union ministry of surface transport will register only those cars in the metropolitan cities that are equipped with catalytic convertors -- all in order to enforce the use of unleaded petrol. The move follows requests by the Union ministry of environment and forests to help …
The Union government will supply lead-free petrol to the 4 metropolitan cities from April 1, 1995. At a meeting chaired by environment minister Kamal Nath, to discuss steps to curb automobile pollution in big cities, it was decided to simultaneously ban the sale of 4-wheel vehicles without catalytic converters. Besides, …
