Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Non-completion of the Western and Eastern Peripheral Expressway to divert traffic of heavy vehicles is costing the national Capital’s health dearly. According to a study, the city has the highest level of air pollutants called particulate matter less than 10 microns (PM10). To make matters worse, the PM10 levels have …
In a blow to SAIL’s efforts for raw material security, a high level committee of the Union environment ministry has refused to accord green clearances for the steel major’s three key iron ore mines in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. The move could deprive the firm of over 80,000 million …
China's heavily polluted capital, Beijing, plans to reduce air pollution levels by 15 percent by 2015 and 30 percent by 2020 through phasing out old cars, relocating factories and planting new forests, state media said on Thursday. The level of air pollution in the capital varies, depending on winds. But …
The overall environmental performance is improving in Sri Lanka and it has been ranked as a moderate performer, according to the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) released during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week. The EPI was produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration …
India has the worst air quality in the world, beating even its neighbour China, according to an annual survey based at Yale and Columbia universities in the United States. Of all the countries surveyed in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which measures the effects of polluted air on human health, …
India has the worst air pollution in the entire world, beating China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, according to a study released during this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Of 132 countries whose environments were surveyed, India ranks dead last in the ‘Air (effects on human health)’ ranking. The annual …
Sri Lanka's overall environmental performance is improving and the country has been ranked as a modest performer according to a study on global environment released during this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week. Sri Lanka has been ranked at the 55th place, six places below the United …
Beijing environmental authorities have caved to public pressure on air pollution in a sign of the growing power of social media to influence public policy in the country. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau will grant public access to air-quality readings that take into account smaller and more-dangerous pollution particles …
More than a million people in the Los Angeles region are exposed to undisclosed, unhealthy levels of air pollution every day, according to a lawsuit filed today by Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Communities for a Better Environment. Pollution produced by the region's …
Authorities in China's notoriously smoggy capital have announced that they will start publishing more accurate data on air pollution this month, bowing unexpectedly to a social-media campaign driven by the U.S. Embassy publishing its own data via Twitter. A woman walks past the China Central Television building in December as …
Air pollution levels will be monitored at as many as 14 locations in the city this Bhogi by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). This would be five more than last year and the decision to increase the number of locations was taken in view of expanded Chennai Corporation limits. …
CPCB has established the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (NAMP) Network, covering 209 cities/towns of the country in compliance with the mandate under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 to collect compile and disseminate information on air quality. This report contains ambient air quality data for the …
As part of CAI-Asia's mission to promote better air quality and livable cities, CAI-Asia conducted an annual review of main events relevant to air quality, climate change and transport in Asia. The review, which started on 2008 and initially focused on sustainable transport, has now evolved to include air quality …
China will introduce stricter air pollution standards next year to monitor tiny particles of pollution in Beijing and other cities, but it may not start releasing the results to the public until 2016, state news media reported Thursday. Chinese cities do not measure data on the smaller particles, 2.5 microns …
China will introduce stricter air pollution standards from next year to monitor tiny floating pollution particles in Beijing and other big cities but may not start releasing the results to the public until 2016, state media said on Thursday. Swathes of urban China from the capital in the north to …
A draft plan listing out the measures required to improve the air quality in the city, including the equipment need, has been prepared by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). From regular cleaning of roads to preventing burning of garbage and garden waste, the measures suggested are many. The …
Six air-quality monitoring stations will start operation in January 2012 to keep records of the levels of air pollution in different parts of the country under the Clean Air and Sustainable Environment project. Construction work of the stations in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Barisal, Narayanganj and Gazipur are in full swing, …
The air was monitored for two consecutive periods, in the dry and the rainy seasons (2009-2010) at 40 petroleum-filling stations in the Indian capital, Delhi, to assess variations in carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, PM10, PM2.5, benzene, toluene and xylene content. PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations exceeded the national ambient air quality …
New Delhi: After the early 2000s, when Delhi’s air became dramatically clean after the introduction of CNG in public transport, it has once again turned into a deadly cocktail of various pollutants. High levels of particulate matter (PM) that fired the original ‘clean air’ campaign 15 years ago, are no …
After some major road infrastructure projects in the city, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is in the process of setting up monitoring stations at three locations to keep a tab on air quality. The MMRDA is likely to establish the first monitoring station on the campus of Indian …
