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 …
A London council has been accused of “covering up” the borough’s air pollution crisis and “putting citizens lives at risk” by failing to monitor levels of poisonous particles in the air. Last year air pollution on Brixton Road in Lambeth was so severe it broke its annual legal limit by …
Half of motorists are in favour of clean air zones – even if they are charged for entering them, a survey has claimed. Birmingham and Leeds are among the cities set to introduce the zones to improve air quality where drivers will potentially require drivers to pay a fee. The …
On-road diesel vehicles were responsible for nearly half of the health impacts of air pollution from vehicles worldwide in 2015. The global cost of these transportation-attributable health impacts in 2010 and 2015 was approximately USD one trillion. As much as two thirds of deaths from air pollution in India can …
Some 385,000 people worldwide died prematurely in 2015 from air pollution caused by vehicle exhaust emissions finds this study published by International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) which singled out diesel engines as the main culprit. China, the EU, the United States, and India accounted for 70% of global transportation-attributable …
Vehicle sharing for long has been suggested as an efficient tool to combat the increasing pollution in cities across the world. In India, the problem of air pollution is even more acute. That makes it more important to explore any option that can lower air pollution. In this article we …
PATNA: The state transport department has put up stickers on city buses, cars and autorickshaws to create awareness about its monthlong no honking drive — ‘Zara Sochein’. It was launched on the occasion of Road Safety Week which started on February 4. “The stickers list the ill-effects of honking on …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 04/02/2019 regarding Pollution Under Control Certificates (PUC) compliance in Delhi. EPCA had submitted its Minutes of Meeting for NCR region before SC on the possible solutions to increase the …
NEW DELHI: All vehicles in Delhi-NCR must have holographic fuel stickers before October 2019, Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority (EPCA) said on Thursday. In a meeting to discuss sticker scheme for vehicles, so that diesel ones can be identified and, if required, banned from the capital’s roads …
All vehicles in Delhi-NCR should be affixed with colour-coded stickers and High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) by October this year, the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) said Thursday. The colour-coded vehicles would help in identifying vehicles based on their fuel type and hologram-based light blue colour sticker would …
The Supreme Court recently banned plying of 15-year-old petrol and 10-year-old diesel vehicles in the National Capital Region (NCR) to check "very critical" level of pollution, upholding the earlier verdict of National Green Tribunal. This was generally welcomed by vehicle manufacturers as it provided yet another opportunity to improve their …
KOLKATA: Hundreds of citizens concerned about the environment took to the streets on Sunday to raise awareness on the alarming rise of air pollution in Kolkata. People of all ages — wearing anti-pollution masks — participated in a march and a cycle rally in the city to highlight the need …
Ahmedabad has been dealing with a serious issue of poor air quality for the last few months. And despite efforts being made by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the situation remains grim. As System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting Research (SAFAR) recorded poor to very poor air quality on …
The new government in Bangladesh is going to legalise electric vehicles. Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has drafted guidelines on the electric vehicles making registration, fitness certificate and tax token mandatory for these. The electric vehicles have been running on the roads despite having no permission in a country that …
ARAI director Rashmi Urdhwareshe and TERI director-general Ajay Mathur made the study public at the SIAT automotive show in Pune. Data was collected from 20 locations with nine of them in Delhi and 11 in NCR. The new vehicle emission norms (BS-VI) and the Ujjwala Scheme providing LPG connections to …
The Supreme Court on Monday said that the National Green Tribunal can examine automobile manufacturers other than Volkswagen also for flouting emission norms if it deemed fit to widen the judicial scrutiny. However, it refused to interfere with the NGT’s proceedings related to Volkswagen India over allegations that the German …
The Supreme Court on Monday said that the National Green Tribunal can examine automobile manufacturers other than Volkswagen also for flouting emission norms if it deemed fit to widen the judicial scrutiny. However, it refused to interfere with the NGT’s proceedings related to Volkswagen India over allegations that the German …
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s top steelmaking city of Tangshan issued a second-level or “orange” pollution alert on Tuesday in response to a wave of smog expected to blanket the region, local government-backed media reported. The alert will take effect from Jan. 22 until Jan. 25. Steel mills will have to …
Pune: A study, in which methanol (M-15) was blended with petrol and used in the existing BS-IV standard cars, found that the carbon dioxide emission had reduced substantially. The study, conducted by Pune-based Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), also found that hydrocarbon emission reduced marginally, with a slight increase …
Construction, road dust biggest contributors to pollution: study The air quality in Kolkata has been exceptionally bad this winter, senior officials of West Bengal Pollution Control Board and State government admitted at an event earlier this week. A presentation by Niraj Singhal, member secretary, WBPCB, highlighted that in 2018, pollutant …
The National Green Tribunal Thursday slammed Volkswagen for not depositing Rs 100 crore, imposed on the German auto major for damaging the environment through use of 'cheat device' in its diesel cars, and directed it to submit the amount within 24 hours failing which its directors would be sent to …
