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 …
the mandarins may just as well go on discussing air pollution control strategies forever without any effect on urban air quality. The basic flaw with the nebulous air quality planning exercise in India is that the regulators neither have a sense of urgency nor a clear, sharp focus to develop …
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and three of the capital's 23 ward offices will jointly start a subsidy system in August to induce car-rental agents to use environmental friendly cars. The metropolitan and local governments will subsidize the extra cost of using the cars, which are typically hybrid cars that combine …
People in Europe's car-lifted cities are likely to start breathing a little easier in the next few years because of tough new anti-pollution rules announced in Brussels this week by the 15-memeber European Union.The rules, which ban the use of leaded gasoline, require many car engines and all fuels to …
Over 300 Delhi petrol dealers have launched a Petrol Green project, which envisages amongst other things, plantation of saplings, conducting educative workshops and free pollution checks in a bid to keep pollution under control.
The environment authority for Delhi has suggested, among others, phasing out all pre-1990 autorickshaws and taxis, among other things, to combat pollution. This has been stated in a report of the authority. The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority's report--on monitoring and priority measures identified--was discussed on Wednesday at a …
The European Union has announced new compulsory fuel and vehicle emission specifications for 2000, and even tighter norms for 2005, in a bid to help Europe's traffic-clogged cities breathe more easily. The so-called "Auto-Oil" package calls for reductions in the amount of sulphur and benzene in motor fuels, a phase-out …
With the July 1 deadline for the emission test for pollution control certification nearing, the agencies involved in enforcement are taking up a test campaign against polluting vehicles.The high-level committee which met under the chairmanship of the Environment Secretary, Mr. K.S. Sripathy, on Friday has decided among other things to …
Twenty-eight European countries, Canada and the US pledged on Wednesday to phase out leaded petrol by 2005 in a move that will demand costly changes in refinery techniques. The decision came during a summit of environment ministers from 54 nations across Europe, Central Asia and North America, held in Denmark's …
The government is set to phase out leaded petrol all over the country within the next two years depending upon the success of such a measure to be brought into force in the capital from September 1998. The Central Pollution Control Board(CPCB) had yesterday announced that the oil companies will …
Delhi will get only unleaded petrol from oil refineries from September 1, according to a circular issued to the refineries from the Union petroleum ministry, no leaded petro will be supplied to the Capital.
The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization will develop fuel-efficient, clean-burning vehicles in cooperation with six automakers, including Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp.
Japanese automakers and oil refiners and distributors have begun jointly researching technology for reducing auto emissions. The research will be used to develop low-emission engines and fuel. The group of 37 companies, will examine the amount of toxic materials such as sulphur dioxide and hydrocarbons emitted from engines and their …
If the number of vehicles on Delhi roads continues to increase unabated, within two years they would be crawling at an average speed of 11 km per hour, a report said. The report by the Central Raod Research Institute (CRRI) found that if the traffic volume rises at the current …
This one is for Ripkey's "Believe It or Not" - a "zero emission" vehicle, so called because its exhaust is cleaner than the surrounding air. Japanese auto-giant Honda Motors Company Limited recently unveiled Civic GX, a car powered by compressed natural gas, which produces "almost zero" harmful exhaust emissions. The …
Taken aback by the outcry over his reported statements vis-a-vis a study on vehicular pollution-associated health problems, the Delhi Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, today clarified that neither he nor the specialists at the Centre of Occpational and Environment Medicine of Maulana Azad Medical College had at any stage said …
CRRI : data pertaining to Pollution Under Control certificates issued by the authorised pollution checking centres in the city is doubtful, reveals a recently-released report by the Central Road Research Institute.
Chrysler, the smallest of the "Big Three" US carmakers and currently in throes of a $40bn merger with Germany's Daimler-Benz said that it planned to produce around 2,000 electric mini-vans in 1999 at its Windsor assembly plant in Ontario.
The Environmental Transport Association Trust (ETA) of United Kingdom has completed a study for the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) which concludes that air pollution inside cars can be up to five times greater than background concentrations. Pedestrians and cyclists are usually exposed to lower concentrations of …
lack of adequate recharging stations and no headway in talks with the Delhi government has forced Eicher Motors Ltd to put the plans to electrify its 30-40 seater buses on the backburner.However, the company has no plans to abandon the project.
Survey : The pollution checking drives of the Department of Transport have been dubbed as "knee jerk" in a recent survey carried out by the Central Road Research Institute. The institute has also emphasised the need for a review of emphasis and priorities of emission controls policies. The survey was …
