Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
Stifling, dirty and dangerous, air pollution from traffic is one of the biggest headaches for Bangkok people, but most endure it even as they complain bitterly about it. With few options available to get the authorities to take action, three Bangkok citizens decided enough was enough and took the issue …
Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? This paper construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between “dirty” and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. It show that firms tend to innovate relatively more in clean technologies when …
The Chinese government says it plans to increase the funds available for developing greener technology in the country's automobile industry. Officials said in a statement that the new research funds will be made available from within overall budgets for energy conservation and emission reduction. The initiative, 'New Energy Auto Technology …
The government will promote the use of hybrid public buses in all the country's cities, extending their promotion beyond the current 25 cities, the Ministry of Finance announced Monday. The central government hopes to bring 3,000 to 5,000 buses to the cities by subsidizing purchases of the vehicles, a statement …
India's government has approved a 230 billion rupee ($4.13 billion) plan to spur electric and hybrid vehicle production over the next eight years, setting itself an ambitious target of 6 million vehicles by 2020. India has a nascent electric and hybrid vehicle industry, with most manufacturers focusing instead on low-emission …
New Delhi Telecom firms will make annual energy savings of as much as R10,000 crore over the next eight years if they adopt the Centre’s green telecom directive and phase out diesel consumption by 2020, a report released by an international NGO said on Tuesday. According to the green directive, …
Plans To Pump In 23,000Cr For Infrastructure, Subsidies, Car Finance New Delhi: In a move to reduce dependence on fossil fuels for vehicles, government plans to push the supply of vehicles powered by electricity over the next eight years. A report prepared by the Centre projects that there would be …
The Obama administration issued on Tuesday the final version of new rules that require automakers to nearly double the average fuel economy of new cars and trucks by 2025. The standards — which mandate an average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon for the 2025 model year — will …
Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of the world’s increasing prosperity and economic growth since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Our use of energy in the twenty-first century must also be sustainable. Solar and water-based energy generation, and engineering of microbes to produce biofuels …
With virtually all modes of transport going the hybrid way, here’s news that could make the rickshaw – which is now restricted to a few Indian cities and pockets of Asia – a possible mode of public transport. Twenty-six-year-old Sivaraj Muthuraman, a Tirupur-based innovator, has built a ‘hybrid’ rickshaw called …
The move will help inculcate awareness among the public, Corporation officials feel For the first time, the Chennai Corporation is venturing to install roof top solar panels of different wattage atop school and hospital buildings. It has called for tenders for installing one five-kilo-watt and five one-kilo-watt power producing panels. …
China, the supplier of 90 percent of the world's rare earths, cut mining rights for the materials by about half to 65 nationwide to help the industry consolidate and create bigger producers. Rare earth mining rights in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, were reduced to 44 from 88, Chen Zhanheng, deputy secretary-general …
STEVE KLINEBERG, a sociologist at Rice University, mentions a couple of events that made Houston’s leaders take notice of a looming problem. One was the day, in 1999, when their city overtook Los Angeles as America’s most polluted—evidence that the rise in asthma attacks among the city’s children, and the …
China has set a target of producing and selling 500,000 energy-efficient and alternative-energy vehicles a year by 2015, and five million vehicles by 2020. The blueprint, announced by the State Council on Monday, has outlined generous subsidies to consumers and producers of the new generation of greener vehicles, as it …
Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW AG will expand their alliance on so-called eco-friendly cars, with the Japanese automaker providing its hybrid and fuel-cell technologies to the German partner in exchange for technologies that reduce vehicle weight, Toyota sources said Monday. By sharing their technologies in the promising field, the two …
12 mechanical engineering students devise electro hydraulic hybrid vehicle Vehicles of the future already have several of their tasks cut out: high efficiency levels, use of clean fuel and smart combination of basic engine mechanism are among the most important expectations, if the prototype vehicle models being designed as part …
With a top speed of 115 km per hour and weighing 320 kg, the battery operated ‘EVo 1’, India’s first electric race car designed and manufactured by students-cum-automobile enthusiasts from IIT Bombay, was unveiled at the institute on Thursday. It will now participate in the Formula Student competition at Silverstone …
Buildings are experimenting with alternative energy with small wind turbines on rooftops In the last few weeks, the city has had a respite from its daily burden of two-hour power cuts — wind energy has helped reduce load shedding to one hour a day. Thanks to the huge wind turbines …
A new set of hot wheels from India is set to enter the racing circuit. What’s more, it’s green. The IIT (Indian Institute of Technology)-Bombay Racing Team on Thursday launched at the institute the country’s first electric race car —Evo1 — designed and manufactured by its members. The car, the …
AHMEDABAD: In order to make multi-utility spaces in urban areas viable and add to the revenue of civic agencies, Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority (Guda) plans to set up windmill-powered utility centers. This unique utility centre will act as a bus-stop, have space for advertisement display, a small cafeteria and sitting …
