Diesel

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding extension of registration period of specialized armoured vehicles, 22/03/2024

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs Union of India & Others dated 22/03/2024. The Special Protection Group (SPG) filed the application to direct the Transport Department, NCT of Delhi to allow extension of registration period of specialized armoured vehicles - 3 in number …

The road ahead

If vehicular emissions are to come down, governments will have to provide incentives to develop and promote the use of cleaner alternatives. In 1999, global passenger car production reached a record 39 million. The global car fleet now stands at 520 million. More vehicles will result in higher emissions. This …

Stop, check, go!

To combat the threat of air pollution, polluting diesel vehicles will be prevented from entering Mumbai from one entry point. Acting on an initiative taken by the Smoke Affected Residents Forum (SARF), a non governmental organisation, the government has set up a pollution checking booth at the Mulund octroi naka …

For clean air

" before 1996, European tourists would often complain about the poor visibility of the snow-capped mountains from Kathmandu,' says Ishwar Chettri, who runs a travel agency in the Nepalese capital. But the ban on the sale of new diesel vehicles in 1996 and the subsequent blanket ban on diesel-run three-wheelers …

Down with diesel

A Japanese study, undertaken to explore measures to reduce emissions from diesel-powered vehicles, has proposed the replacement of old vehicles with new models. Conducted by experts from the transport ministry, the international trade and industry ministry and the environment agency, the study has said that owners of vehicles manufactured in …

MONEYMAKERS

CLEANER CONVERTER: A new catalytic converter that reduces harmful exhaust emissions from diesel engines has been developed by Toyota Motor Corporation. The clean exhaust technology called Diesel Particulate NOx Reduction System is a filtering system made of porous ceramic and cuts both particulate matter and nitrogen oxide pollutants by more …

It s bean fuel

bio-diesel , an alternative fuel made from renewable resources, such as soybean oil, has become the first and only alternative fuel to have successfully completed the health effects testing requirements of California's Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. The tests also showed that the use of bio-diesel would result in …

High on gas

It seems that a new study from Harvard University in USA has vindicated the position of the pro-diesel lobby that compressed natural gas (CNG) is also very polluting. The report started appearing in newspapers, conveniently on the very day that the Supreme Court was to hear the case on moving …

FIGHTING FOR AIR

MUMBAI Death for Hire Diesel taxis are raising hell. Their drivers are lodged in a pitched battle with the civil society If you live in the business capital of India, it is not difficult to see the byproducts of the industrial boom. A constantly rising number of vehicles has sent …

BANGALORE waking up

Bangalore is a relatively green city. There are no big industrial units in the immediate vicinity. As with most other metros of India, vehicular emissions are the most important cause of air pollution. According to B Shivalingaiah, chairperson of the Karnataka Pollution Control Board (kpcb), there are about 1.4 million …

HYDERABAD Stalemate

Hyderabad is at crossroads. A city rooted in history, it is raring to attain the title of being India's information technology capital. From being a congested old city with very high population density, it wants to become an industrial monolith with a surging economy. If only things were this simple. …

Paying the price

When the Union government introduced low sulphur diesel and petrol in the country, most people welcomed the move. However, the entire purpose stands defeated: by increasing the price of low sulphur petrol and diesel (by 13 paise and 52 paise per litre respectively) the government seems to have sent a …

Dinosaur age ministers

India's Union minister for petroleum, Ram Naik, lives in the dinosaur age. Only Indian politics can throw up such archaic thinkers, given the pits it has reached. At the 16th World Petroleum Congress, held recent in Calgary, where some 2,000 people were demonstrating and asking for public policies to bring …

Out with diesel

For the first time in the world, a government has imposed restrictions on buying diesel vehicles for commercial use as an anti-pollution measure. Quite predictably, this move has come from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), California, which leads the world in air quality management. It adopted three …

Whither clean fuel?

the us oil industry has locked horns with environmental regulators over a new proposal to make diesel burn cleaner. The proposal made by the us Environment Protection Authority (epa), plans to bring down the sulphur content of diesel by 97 per cent, starting from 2007, according to a report in …

CHINA

The Chinese government's programme to achieve a "visible improvement" in the country's air quality within a span of 18 months, may be fulfilled four months earlier than expected. This is because the suppliers of ultra-low sulphur diesel, which is being imported for the implementation of this programme, have revised their …

Whose responsibility is it anyway?

this is yet another story about the slip between the cup and the lip. And the ultimate sufferers in this case are the residents of Delhi, who are left choking with polluted air and a hazy future. It all started in 1998, when the Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority …

Giving a breather

on may 10, the Supreme Court announced a clear schedule for supply of cleaner petrol and diesel to the capital. The apex court has directed the ministry of petroleum and natural gas ( mpng ) to supply petrol with 0.05 per cent sulphur to the entire National Capital Region ( …

Tougher truck rules

strict rules have been recommended to control emissions from the large, noisy and highly polluting trucks in Japan. A panel, set up by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( ldp ), has recommended that diesel vehicles be equipped with particulate filters and proposed that regulations be set in motion in …

SOUTH AFRICA

Government plans to introduce a fleet of new taxis running on diesel has triggered off an outcry in South Africa. Environmentalists view the country's new-generation taxi fleet with diesel fuel as a major "lost opportunity' to reduce air pollution. While supporting the initiative to improve the public transport system, the …

IN COURT

While examining the Seventh Progress Report of the Environ-ment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority, the Supreme Court directed the ministry of petroleum and natural gas (MPNG) to supply petrol with 0.05 per cent sulphur by May 31, 2000 and with one per cent benzene by October 1, 2000 to the …

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