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 …
India is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol. There is no way we can keep our economy moving without spreading out our energy sources. We should keep in mind that the fossil fuels that we now burn will spew out more carbon if we don't switch to cleaner and sustainable …
Following Government Threat That Violators Will Face Action, 5600 Owners Have Applied For Conversion Of Permits After endless extensions, the transport department's scheme for re-registration of school cabs as commercial vehicles finally seems to have found some takers. With the state government coming down heavily on van owners and announcing …
ENERGY SUMMIT Calls for price band mechanism, action against oil speculation JEDDAH : Smarting under oil-inspired runaway inflation, India today asked oil producing nations not to remain a "passive spectator of speculation' and called for adopting a "price band mechanism' to cool down prices. Finance Minister P Chidambaram, addressing the …
Gunjan Pradhan Sinha & Rajeev Jayaswal NEW DELHI AN ATTEMPT by oil marketing companies (OMCs) to force their retail outlets to sell more of branded fuel is coming in handy for transport companies to increase freight rates in excess of what was warranted by the recent fuel price hike. According …
Transport volumes and structures in China change drastically as a result of economic and social development in the country. These changes are associated with increasing energy consumption and negative impacts on the environment, e.g. emissions of greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants affecting not only the micro and macro climate …
The German government has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over its plans to lead a worldwide biofuels revolution on the roads after the discovery that too many cars would be unable to run on the proposed ethanol-petrol mix. The environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, had planned to introduce the new …
vehicular pollution is common to most metros. A Kolkata-specific study has highlighted how vehicles in Kolkata emit cancer-causing volatile organic compounds (vocs). The study noted that specific vocs were found in very high concentrations in the city. "Levels of btex
the central government has thwarted a Delhi government plan to control toxic emissions from diesel vehicles in the capital. In a letter to Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, Union Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T R Baalu said the centre would not support the state's proposal to ban …
Alternate fuel research has been the topic of the highest priority in the context of depletion of fossil fuels at alarming rate and increasing of pollution levels of the engines with conventional fuels. Alcohols and vegetable oils are major alternate fuels for diesel fuel as they are renewable in nature. …
After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior River, which runs through their backyards, Mark Storey, a retired petroleum plant worker, hopped into his boat to follow it upstream to its source. It turned out to be an old …
Despite their green intentions, buyers of blended biofuel may not be getting quite what they are paying for. Chris Reddy, an environmental chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, has developed a test which reveals the proportions of biodiesel and conventional diesel in the fuel mix. It works …
The us state Florida has come up with draft motor fuel rules that aims to boost ethanol blending in the country's third largest petrol market. Limited ethanol blending is already occurring in Florida. But following the approval of the Energy Independence and Security Act, 2007, the draft rules will help …
Diesel cars are expected to corner 50 per cent of the Indian car market by 2010. 2010 is also the Indian government's target year for putting into place European emission standards. The target was set by the auto fuel policy of 2002. It appears to be an unlikely one with …
EPCA is monitoring the CNG programme in Delhi on a continuous basis to be able to address the key operational concerns related to safety and emissions. EPCA would like to keep the Hon
The us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) has slapped European energy giants Royal Dutch Shell Plc and bp Plc with a combined fine of us $1.5 million on charges of distributing petrol that did not meet the country's legal pollution standards. The usepa sets standards for petrol and diesel under the …
when the world is bidding for low emissions and high efficiency, any technology that does away with the carburettor in a two-wheeler is definitely going to rule the industry. On June 26, Hero Honda, for the first time in India, launched the fuel injection (fi) technology in two-wheelers under the …
drainage problems: The Australian New South Wales Land and Environment Court has ordered Arenco Propriety Limited, a construction company, to pay around US $20,000 towards rehabilitation work at Bathurst mine after it pumped water into a stormwater drainage system in the area. It pumped 18,600 litres of water containing sediment …
This book intends to assist in the design of appropriate strategies for controlling the impacts of urban air pollution, from mobile sources. It considers only the direct air impacts of surface transport, excluding aviation, marine transport, non-road vehicles (such as bulldozers and mining equipment), noise pollution, habitat fragmentation, and waste …
