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 …
Why has Daewoo not gone in for diesel cars when other car manufacturers are flooding the market with diesel models? It is true that some car manufacturers have introduced diesel models, luring customers with the initial price advantage and lower cost of running. But six months down the line, people …
Air pollution is one of the direct results of economic growth. With the introduction of economic reforms in 1991 in India, there has been a substantial degree of liberalisation in the car industry. Industrial growth in the country seems somewhat expensive when the tremendous costs to public health due to …
According to the World Health Organisation ( who ), spm is the most serious air pollutant on a worldwide basis. It causes the death of 460,000 people each year. In August 1998, the California Air Resources Board ( carb ) declared that particles in diesel emissions are toxic air contaminants. …
After slapping a legal notice on environmentalists Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, seeking damages worth Rs 100 crore (approximately us $25 million) for an article they had written in Business Standard on the threats posed to public health by the current trend towards dieselisation of the private automobile fleet, telco …
India is facing a serious double burden of disease. Most of the old infectious diseases like malaria, filariasis and kala-azar have not yet disappeared; indeed they are bouncing back. At the same time, other chronic non-communicable diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disorders are becoming more dominant. It …
the Supreme Court, on May 13, 1999, removed the cap on car sales in the National Capital Region ( ncr ) and allowed self-certification for Euro-norm compliance by the automobile industry itself. At the same time, the apex court rejected the plea of the Union government and the automobile industry …
Industrial leaders must realise that this is not a strategy that will work any more. In a modern world where information transfer is extremely rapid, even a group of five people can take on the best in the biggest of companies. It is indeed true that controlling air pollution is …
Hell on wheels Dieselmania hits the Indian private automobile sector. And why not? Diesel is cheaper than petrol, and car loans are available in plenty it's sleek , it's mean, it races, it is not an aircraft. It runs on diesel. Some of them even run on petrol. The automobile …
The euphoria over the growth in the diesel-powered private vehicular segment would evaporate if people were to open their eyes to the evidence on environmental and health hazards of diesel engines. Diesel engines are primarily responsible for harmful emissions of suspended particulate matter ( spm )
Recent studies show that neither using clean diesel fuel nor improving the quality of the engine help in solving the threat of particulate matter in diesel emissions. So banning the manufacture of diesel cars may be the only option to counter the threats posed by particulate matter. Fuel quality A …
On May 4, 1999, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organised a press conference to brief mediapersons about the legal notice that has been served by TELCO against Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain of CSE for allegedly writing a defamatory article against TELCO. They were threatened with a Rs …
About 110,000 litres (24,200 gallons) of diesel oil was spilled after two tankers collided near southern Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, an official from the city's environment department said. The accident took place 500 metres from the Nha Be Petroleum Storage Depot. "About 110,000 litres of diesel spilled into …
In a significant ruling on April 29, 1999, the Supreme Court of India ordered the automobile industry to adhere to stringent emission standards or get off the road. Besides restricting the sale of cars that comply to Euro i norms to 1,500 (1,250 petrol and 250 diesel) per month in …
T he judges were angry. Very angry. They had reason to be. It is a well-known fact that pollution has already risen dramatically in the last two decades in India. To make matters worse, the automobile fleet was also growing by leaps and bounds. If automobiles with poor engine technology …
When it rains it burns Acid rain has already been reported in some parts of India, and the situation is likely to get worse India faces an increasing threat from acid rain
Scientists became aware of acid rain more than a century ago A cid rain is not a recent phenomenon. The term was first coined in 1852 by a chemist, Robert Angus Smith. The 35-year-old chemist, while studying the quality of air in and around his home town Manchester, England, found …
Human activities have made the sky a sewer. Subhash J Rele, writing in The Hindustan Times , estimates that each year, the global atmosphere is on the receiving end of 20 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, 130 million tonnes (mt) of sulphur dioxide, 97 mt of hydrocarbons, 53 mt of …
