Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
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 …
The health of young children is at risk from high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2 ) in kitchens. NO2 is formed when the nitrogen and oxygen in the air react in the gas flame of the burners. Researchers from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) in Garston, the uk, surveyed 876 …
In a bid to curb air pollution, the use of catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters has been made compulsory for all diesel and petrol-run vehicles in Bangladesh from June 2002. Steps will be taken to make these two equipments free from import tax. The government has also decided to …
in a far-reaching decision, the us Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) to set clean air standards, rejecting the industry's arguments that the economic costs of regulation must be weighed against the health benefits. "The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the usepa efforts to …
What message are you sending by slapping an eight per cent duty on a clean fuel like the compressed natural gas (CNG)? Will it not jolt to the nascent CNG market, when the tax generated will amount to a mere Rs 6 crore? Won't it also jeopardise the Supreme Court's …
From July 1, 2001, the Pakistan government will impose a pollution charge on all those who fail to comply to the National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS), said Omar Asghar Khan, the country's federal minister for labour, local government and rural development.
Researchers at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, have evolved a Clean Dream project that aims to turn the university campus into a pollution free zone. "Chulalongkorn suffers from a lot of air and noise pollution because it is located in the middle of the city,' said Soontorn Boonyathikarn, who heads the project. …
The Clinton administration has approved new regulations that are expected to cut air pollution from heavy-duty trucks and buses by more than 90 per cent over the next decade. The federal standards will require new large trucks and buses to meet stringent tailpipe emission limits and direct refiners to produce …
The state of California in the us has declared the most stringent standards for heavy-duty diesel-driven vehicles in the world. Now 13 other states have joined California in their campaign against diesel. This multi-state clean-diesel initiative include New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Delaware, …
Mexico is a country that does not believe in resting on its laurels. This is the first year in the past decade that Mexico city did not experience a smog alert. But that did not stop Mexico City's environment secretary, Aaron Mastache, to lower the threshold for smog alerts and …
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has criticised the Indian government for its inability to stick to fiscal targets and start infrastructure development in the country. The managing director of WEF anticipated that the fiscal deficit in the current financial year (2000-2001) would touch 5.4 per cent of the gross domestic …
knowing very well that brand new vehicles are failing onroad emission tests, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers ( siam ) conveniently turned a Nelson's eye towards the problem of manufacturing defects in vehicles. Instead it propagated good maintenance practices as a strategy to check harmful emissions from vehicles during …
The United Nations (UN), in association with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has granted an aid of US $153.7 million out of the total US $461.2 million cost of 14 environmental projects in various countries. Among the projects approved was a US $7.85 million grant to scientifically assess climate change …
a device for capturing and recovering dilute volatile organic compounds and other hazardous air pollutants has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, usa . "The new vapour-recovery system is fast, convenient and can achieve new levels of air quality control,' says Mark Rood, a professor of civil …
Fauna and Flora International and the United Nations Environmental Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, have jointly launched a Global Trees Campaign programme in an attempt to save more than 8,000 tree species, which are on the verge of becoming extinct. One in ten of all tree species are in danger of …
Unless governments force paper companies to invest in cleaner technologies, encourage the manufacture of recycled paper and allow plantations only on lands that are
Peak hour traffic scenario in India is a cartoonist's delight. Hassled motorists, rivers of sweat streaming down their forehead, accusing each other for lack of traffic sense in loud voices toned by the honking of a thousand horns. This is not so in Singapore. It is almost legendary now that …
There is now a growing recognition that cities can become sustainable only if auto dependence can be reduced. Says Newman, "Rapidly developing cities that have not put in place any physical or economic restraints on traffic, have not built high quality transit system, and have not protected their traditional forms …
