Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Crossings Republik Flat Owner Association Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 29/11/2023. In this original application, Applicant has questioned the setting up of a Bio-CNG plant with 300 TPD capacity at Khasra Nos. 121, 122, 123, 124, 129, 304, 305 …
"THIS is the fifth time that the Union and state governments have come back to this court with the prayer that diesel buses be allowed. If this were a private party (instead of being the government), it would amount to abuse of process and the party would be made to …
"WE are aware of the sad plight of most of our towns and cities. This needs to be changed if they have to act as engines of growth, and if they are to provide a healthy environment for our citizens. Hence, we can no longer afford to delay reforms in …
It could be seen as the best tribute the government could pay our colleague Anil Agarwal. At the hearing of the air pollution case in the Supreme Court when the report on fuel adulteration done by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) was being discussed, the counsel for the …
What do you say when a Cabinet minister - an articulate and vocal one at that - refuses to appear on a television panel to discuss a serious public policy issue with you? Ram Naik, the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and I were invited by a private …
TWO-WHEELERS are Asia"s biggest challenge with most countries in the region being deluged with pollution from the huge number of them. Even where countries have tried, and tried hard to clean up their act, the pollution nightmare is not ending. Countries like India and Taiwan have armed themselves with the …
TAIWAN: The emissions recall programme is operative in Taiwan since 1996. It detects vehicles that due to inherent defects in design and components fail, while on road, to meet the standards. The Environment Protection Administration of Taiwan (Taiwan EPA) organises surveillance tests of five sample vehicles of a particular engine …
Many Asian countries are clamping down with tighter in-use standards, junking polluting cars, giving incentives to replace old vehicles and restricting numbers. CHINA: By July 2000, about 37 cities have stopped issuing new licenses for motorcycles. In 21 cities, only limited licenses were issued, says Wang Song Qin, of Motor …
THE crisis is staring us in the face. Two-wheelers will drive the fate of Asia"s clean air challenge. The question now is in what direction will technology move in ? One option is to continue improving the conventional two and three-wheeler engines to ensure they meet the emission standards today …
THE World Trade Organisation (WTO) regime threatens to shake the Asian market. Today, the market is divided between countries that produce and those that import. But WTO will act as a leveller in the market. Since it disallows trade barriers and ordains uniform laws for domestic manufacturers and the importers, …
On the key environmental challenge for two-wheelers It will be necessary to find ways to achieve further emission reductions. But the new technologies may add to the complexity and cost of the vehicles. Does the Indian industry believe more in survival and less in leadership? I do not agree with …
The challenge faced by pollution planners is literally to find ways to measure the particulate pollution from two-wheelers. As yet little has been done. One study done In the US finds that particulate emissions from two-stroke engines are rich in toxic volatile organic fraction, and particulates, says Michael Walsh, citing …
Unmasking the dragon Two and three wheeler population is exploding in Asia. The health implications are scary: they emit dangerous pollutants that have gone unnoticed till now ASIANS are riding high on dragons that they cannot get off. The dragons are small but far too many. Consider this: About 85 …
ever since the Mashelkar Committee submitted its interim report on the country's auto fuel policy on January 1, 2002, the authorities have gone into overdrive. While it took the Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas barely four days to accept the recommendations in their entirety, the Union cabinet too …
on december 19, 2001, a Delhi Transport Corporation (dtc) bus running on compressed natural gas (cng) caught fire at a filling station. A leakage was said to be the cause of the blaze. This was one of the eight incidents that have occurred in Delhi during the past six months. …
after Delhi's public transport system switched over to compressed natural gas (cng), it is Mumbai's turn to receive a green makeover. In this case, too, the judiciary is the catalyst for change. The Mumbai High Court has given an ultimatum to owners of all 15-year-old taxis and 10-year-old autorickshaws to …
Private operators have bulldozed the Delhi government into indefinitely deferring the phase-out schedule for diesel buses. As against a target of 2788 buses, only 727 have gone off the roads in December 2001. On October 18, the Supreme Court (sc) had directed the city government to phase out 8881 diesel …
a leading English daily reported that 200 Delhi Transport Corporation (dtc) buses were plying on the capital's roads without catalytic converters. It stated that emissions from these vehicles, running on compressed natural gas (cng), were 90 per cent more than those from other such buses. Instead of a catalytic converter, …
The Green Rating Project (grp) team knew from the beginning that a thorough rating process would require a set of parameters and methodology that would stand the test of time and the scrutiny of the industry as well as critics. There was no precedent to go by, therfore the team …
It was a moment of truth for Indian automobile companies. On October 29, 2001, captains of the auto industry waited with bated breath to learn where they stood on the ladder of environmental performance. India's first environmental and most comprehensive rating of the automobile sector was to be released in …
