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 catalytic convertor, an invention that has sharply reduced smog from cars, has now become a significant cause of global warming, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This spring E.P.A published a study estimating that nitrous oxide now accounts for 7.2 per cent of the gases that cause global warming. …
Hazardous levels of air pollution here prompted city officials on Monday to order some drivers to leave their cars at home. A measure going into effect on Tuesday calls for a 25 per cent drop in private auto traffic throughout the city in an effort to reduce ozone levels and …
One in five vehicles on Britain's roads cannot meet the government's standards for exhaust emissions, according to the result of a compulsory testing scheme launched in selected towns at the start of this year.
A new mechanical booster device which can save about 30 per cent fuel in four-wheeled automobiles is yet to get the approval of the government for implementation, though patented in 1989 by an Indian technologist.
The non-polluting battery-powered tempos which were chased away from the Maharajgunj route by operators of smoke belching Vikram tempos earlier this month have finally made a triumphant come back.
China has kept pace with the development of green car technologies worldwide by making major progress in producing environmentally friendly automobiles. They include updating the widely used model 492 engine, spreading the use of electronic fuel ejection and ignition system in automobiles, and developing and commercializing catalytic convertors for reducing …
A range of "green" vehicles running on liquefied petroleum gas as well as conventional petrol has been launched by the Vauxhall offshoot of General Motors at a motor show for managers of company car fleets in UK.
The Supreme Court today in the "Delhi vehicular pollution control and traffic regulation case" expressed 'distress over the manner in which earlier directions of the court in this regard were implemented and underlined that the basic right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution "have to be complied with".The …
Whose baby is SMG-HAI -one of India's prominent inventions on complete combustion technology? Scientist Somendra Mohan Ghosh won the Shiromoni Award for it and holds the original patent. However, his detractors and former associate claim that recognition is due to another researcher, the late Abani Ghosh. Dr Ghosh's associate and …
The nine members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and member-in-waiting Cambodia have agreed to implement United Nations automobile environmental and safety standards, auto industry sources said.
Toyota Motor Corp. will supply its technology for cutting 90% of nitrogen oxide from automobile emissions to Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Mitsubishi Motors is set to use the technology for its gasoline direct injection cars marketed in the U.S., Europe and Asia outside Japan.
Autorickshaw drivers of the Chennai city were given an insight into the hazards posed by vehicular pollution to health and environment, at a workshop here today. Addressing participants, Mr. A. Subhas, Director, Environment Training Institute, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), said drivers should resort to defensive driving and allow …
In order to increase the capability and to refresh the knowledge of the vehicle emission testers, a month-long training programme on Vehicular Emission Control began in Kathmandu. It is targetted to educate and mitigate personnels from concerned sectors about the environmental hazards of vehicular pollution.
Indian refineries are poised for a multi-billion rupee facelift to produce greener transport fuels in line with new environmental regulations, a government official said on Friday.
A major crackdown on the pollution causing vehicles in the twin cities is about to be launched with 100 to 150 per cent increase in the penalties. Though the earlier condition of not supplying fuel to the vehicles with no 'pollution under check' (PUC) certificate was withdrawn, a recent high-level …
Diesel's promise as a future weapon against global warming is being undermined by revelations that suggest the government underestimated the toll today's diesels are exacting on air quality and human health. The findings include a discovery, confirmed by federal regulators, that as many as 1 million of the nation's heavy …
The UK Treasury insisted that it would agree to the earmarking of revenues from "green" taxes for environmental spending only on a "case by case basis". Dawn Primarolo, a Treasury minister, refused to confirm a declaration by John Prescott, deputy prime minister and chief transport minister, that the Treasury would …
Fifty per cent of the Valley's vehicles have failed the emission tests which were introduced two years ago to counter the capital's worsening level of pollution. Failing the test were some 80 per cent of the diesel tempos and most mini-buses.
a new technology has been developed to reduce vehicular pollution. Developed by researchers in the uk, it reduces the amount of pollutants in the exhaust fumes of automobiles. A report on the new technology in the British Commercial News , says that the level of pollutants after using the technique …
