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 …
Maintaining one's Body Mass Index (BMI) within normal range is the best way to protect onself against the ill effects of vehicular pollution, according to an environmental epidemiological survey. Conducted by the Centre for Occupational and Environment Medicine, Maullana Azad medical Collge, the survey warned people to keep their weight …
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will begin installing new models of its gasoline direct-injection engines in cars for the Japanese, U.S. and European markets starting this autumn. To meet the stricter emissions standards, the latest version of the fuel-efficient engine has been matched with new catalytic convertors that reduce emissions of nitrogen …
Toyota Motor Corp. has agreed with General Motors Corp. on joint development of technologies to protect the environment. The tie-up between the largest carmakers in Japan and the U.S. includes fuel-cell development for advanced low pollution vehicles.
A research group from Yamanashi University said it has developed a special catalyst that boosts the performance of solid-polymer-type fuel cells. Solid-polymer fuel cells are being developed for use in electric cars.
About 16,000 vehicles in the twin cities had beenconverted into gas by the Pakistan Hydrocarbon Development Institute (PHDI) during the past few years. As many as 7,000 vehicles are commuting in Islamabad and the remaining in Rawalpindi. The conversion of petrol vehicles into gas is a part of government strategy …
The announcement that Honda would be forced to pay millions of dollars in fines for violations of environmental regulations is an embarrassment to the company, which has portrayed itself as an environmental leader. Honda and Ford were charged with selling cars that were designed to pass emissions tests but run …
Delhi fourth most polluted city in world: Delhi is the fourth most polluted city in the world, yet the Delhi government's pollution control drive has mostly consisted of "knee jerk reactions" which cause inconvenience to commuters and create chaos on the roads, says an official study.The study on the efficacy …
Vehicular emissions, the highest pollutant in the Capital, account for two third of the total pollution loads followed by thermal power plants, industries and domestic sectors respectively. A study by the Central Road Research Institute(CRRI) estimates that vehicular emissions generate 64 per cent of the total pollution loads while 16 …
CRRI : The much touted Catalytic Convertors (CC) as an answer to vehicular pollution may not be as effective as they are made out to be. The reason is that for a CC to be effective, it requires at least 10 km of travellling time to heat up "and till …
Europe's petroleum industry is losing a multi-million dollar battle to resist demands by the European Parliament for mandatory cuts in the amount of sulphur to be allowed in petrol and diesel from the middle of the next decade. EU countries have signalled readiness to agree to parliament's call to convert …
To repair, maintain, modify, recondition automobile, motorbike of diffrent makes and models and to check the vehicular emission in an ultra-modern way, some Nepalese entrepreneurs have recently established an auto workshop in Kathmandu. Nepal has been using "Muffler Test System" till today which can only check the silencer pipe of …
The Centre's decision to postpone a rule making it mandatory for all four-wheelers registered from June 1 to have catalytic convertors is a setback to the goal of achieving a pollution-free environment.Considered by environmentalists as one of the most important steps in reducing pollution levels, the move now stands deferred …
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) has urged the State Government to declare a moratorium for three years on the registration of three-wheelers with two-stroke engines which have become a major cause of atmospheric pollution.
The government has postponed for two months its decision to make mandatory the fitment of catalytic convertors in four wheeler petrol-driven vehicles registered on first sale in more than 40 cities. The decision, which was notified by the Union surface transport ministry in February , was to come into effect …
a recent study conducted in Delhi has found alarming levels of metals such as lead and cadmium in several placental tissues. This has sharply highlighted the hazards of air pollution as these metals are both toxic and often, are the cause many irreversible health effects. The threat unborn babies face …
vehicular emission can pose some formidable health hazards. Everybody knows that. But only now, are scientists further cautioning that diesel fumes are perhaps more dangerous than what was previously thought. And according to a government draft report released recently by the Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ), usa, these fumes …
the West Bengal government has asked auto-emission testing centres in the city to only measure carbon monoxide levels in exhaust fumes of vehicles. Thus, it has ignored the provisions of the Environmental (Protection) rules framed by the Centre. The schedule states that vehicles must not emit nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons …
the crowds thronging Janpath, Delhi's premier shopping mall in Connaught Place, are blissfully unaware of the serious health risk due to the alarming level of cancer-causing benzene in the air. The new indicative data on benzene levels, available from an investigation done by a foreign scientist, is a rebuke to …
The Nepalese government relaxed the standard for vehicular emissions without heeding to the recommendations made by the environmental experts with the Vehicular Emission Standard Review Committee (VESRC), the members of the committee charged.
