Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Welcoming the agreement between Europe's environment ministers and car makers to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new cars, United Nations Enviornment Programme (UNE) Executive Director, Klaus Toepfer, said the initiative is important proof that good cooperation with industry is essential if governments are to meet the targets for greenhouse gas …
Dhaka's city's air pollution has aggravated and it will further worsen next winter due to dry weather. An inter-ministerial meeting, chaired by Environment Minister Begum Sajeda Chowdhury, observed that the government agencies, including the Department of Environment, had failed to pull in rein of mounting air pollution. The meeting decided …
The Environment Pollution Control Authority of National Capital Region will soon recommend phasing out of commercial vehicles manufactured prior to 1990. This was disclosed by Dilip Biswas, Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board and Convener of the Environment Pollution Authority of NCR. Biswas added that transporters should be given adequate fiscal …
Air in Riccarton Road has a concentration of the cancer-causing toxic chemical benzene that exceeds international standards. An Institute of Environmental Science and Research report, released yesterday, found Christchurch had the highest ambient air benzene concentrations compared with Auckland, Hamilton, Dunedin, and Paeroa. The report was commissioned by the Ministry …
A committee set up by the ministry of non-conventional energy resources will soon submit a draft policy on zero emission vehicles (ZEVs). The committee is headed by Ramesh A Mashelkar, director general, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
The Delhi transport department has sent over 9,000 20-year old commercial vehicles off the Delhi's roads as per the Supreme Court order banning the plying of these polluting vehicles.
Miles to go after unleadead fuel, phaseout :With all commercial vehicles over 20 years being phased out completely starting today, a major deadline regarding vehicular pollution has been met. However, there is a whole set of deadlines recommended by a committee set up under the chairmanship of Bhure Lal to …
A month after leaded petrol was phased out in the city in accordance with the Supreme Court's directives in an attempt to "make the fourth most polluted city in the world cleaner and greener", environmentalists have charged that the 'no lead no worries' campaign is "misleading and half-baked". One of …
Phasing out of old commercial vehicles in Delhi begins on Friday with 20-year old automobiles being shown the door in a bid to clean up the fourth most polluted city in the world.
THE MASSIVE cost of European Union's (EU) plan to reduce vehicular pollution from 2005 has infuriated car manufacturers and oilpersons, both traditionally rival industries. The car manufacturers say that the directive, forged in June, will force them to churn out a whopping us $60 billion. And the oilperson echo similar …
THE Indian automobile industry seems to be following in the footsteps of two-wheeler manufactures in Asian countries that have switched over to more eco-friendly machines. But how eco-friendly is this move? Bajaj Auto Ltd, the Indian two-wheeler giant, recently unveiled its new 150 cc, nine-horsepower (HP), four-stroke petrol-driven scooter, christened …
The Supreme Court (SC) has banned plying of all 15-year-old motor commercial vehicles including buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in the National Capital Territory (NCR) from October 2 this year. The SC has expressed concern and distress at the apathy of the authorities concerned in implementing various directions issued by it …
calcutta's air is highly polluted with polyaromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) such as benzene, toluene and xylene (btx), which are carcinogenic. Levels of these pollutants in the ambient air have been assessed for the first time in an urban environment in India. The study was conducted by a team headed by Dipankar …
Environmentalists and local entrepreneurs in Bangladesh have appreciated some of the new measures proposed in the budget for 1998-99. They have hailed the budget as "eco-friendly'. The finance minister has proposed zero customs duty on less smoke-emitting double-decker buses. This move will encourage public transports and stop the growing air …
yashwant sinha's maiden budget promises to leave us breathless, but not out of admiration. At best a weak attempt at financial jugglery, with its reliance on stiff indirect taxes, and consequent high prices, the budget looks like a huge leap backwards into the seventies. Worse, like then, Sinha's finance document …
The European Commission signalled approval for a deal with the European car industry which will require a 25 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from the new cars within a decade. The proposed agreement is likely to cost tens of billions of dollars to implement, according to Acea, which …
After two decades of court battles, residents of Osaka's Nishi-Yodogawa Ward suffering from air pollution came to a legal compromise with the national government and the Hanshin Expressway Public Corp. Wednesday. With the arbitration of the Osaka High Court, the national government promised to remove traffic lanes from Route 2 …
The sorry state of governance in the country has forced the Supreme Court to intervene again in the area of air pollution caused by vehicular transport in Delhi. In July 1996 , and then later in September 1996 , it had ordered the closure/relocation of a number of polluting units …
The Supreme Court judgement on the phasing out of commercial vehicles older than 15 years is a victory for the anti-pollution lobby in the Capital. It has nevertheless come as a shock to owners of the commercial vehicles, who believed that the worst was over for them when the Delhi …
