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 …
Cities surrounding Beijing reported fewer polluted days last month, but average air quality still lagged behind other regions, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said yesterday. Of the 74 cities under its watch, seven of the 10 Chinese cities reporting the worst air quality were in Hebei Province, which neighbors Beijing, …
Campaigners fighting a second runway at Gatwick say they have not been given enough time to respond to a public consultation on air quality. The Airports Commission gave people three weeks to submit further evidence about air pollution on 8 May. Four West Kent parish councils have called for more …
The Union Environment Ministry has roped in PSUs like NTPC, Coal India and NMDC to fund the setting up of over 60 Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations across 12 cities by this year-end. The project, requiring an investment of between Rs 400-500 crore, will see new stations being set up …
BEIJING - Air pollution is still public enemy number one in China's fight for green living, according to the country's environmental watchdog. Among 1,463 complaints received by the Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2014, 78 percent were related to air quality, a 5-percent year-on-year increase, according to a ministry statement …
Here is a piece of startling information, in the form of a BBC report dated April 19, for candidates aspiring to be researchers in air pollution. “Saharan dust, traffic fumes, and smog from Europe may be clogging up London’s air at present, and causing alarm in the newspapers. But in …
Until last year, Beijing was the pollution capital of the world. That ignominy now falls on Delhi, where pollution levels have been jumping off the charts while the smog around the Chinese capital lifts slowly. So what did the Chinese government do right in its war against pollution, and what …
The Government plans to set up air quality monitoring stations, which are presently functional at 10 places, in more cities in the country. The air quality monitoring stations is also proposed to be expanded to cover the state capital as well as those cities having a population of more than …
Despite the bright blue, sunny skies that much of Israel woke up to on Thursday morning, a fog of air pollution blanketed the country as a result of the previous night’s Lag Ba’omer bonfires. Although the pollution concentrations peaked between 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and 4:30 a.m. Thursday at most Environmental …
Beijing has extended a ban on outdoor barbecues to restaurants operating in some suburban areas as it tries to improve its notoriously poor air quality in case it wins the 2022 Winter Olympics, state news agency Xinhua reported. Barbecues, generally used to cook popular street foods like kebabs, are already …
Delhi, Navi Mumbai, B'luru, Ahd Among Those To Get Real-Time Bulletins Exactly a month after launching the national Air Quality Index (AQI), which had its share of teething problems, Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday announced the release of a daily air quality bulletin for 11 cities, including Delhi, …
Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar's recent remark as to why people aren't referring to the national Air Quality Index (AQI) and instead depending on "one embassy's" data had taken pollution experts by surprise. The fact is that the environment ministry's pet project, AQI, is itself facing some serious quality issues. …
Hong Kong’s historic double-decker trams are not just one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions, they are also one of its most hazardous. Air quality often exceeded safe levels along the entire length of the tram line, and not just in Central and Causeway Bay districts as previously believed, …
More than 40percent of Americans live where the air contains unhealthy levels of pollution, according to a newly released study. The American Lung Association, in their yearly State of the Air report, ranked the cleanest and most polluted metropolitan areas, noting the ways in which some cities are trying to …
The Delhi High Court has directed the Union Government to come up with an action plan to deal with air pollution in the Capital, while expressing concern over the “bureaucratic apathy” on the issue and the worsening situation caused by unchecked felling of trees. A Division Bench of the High …
The district administration’s request for more stone quarries has led the State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) to direct them to measure the air quality at sites before seeking for a green signal. With stone crushers likely to cause more air pollution, the SEAC has particularly asked the administration to carry …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday extended its earlier deadline of banning all diesel operated tourists vehicles to Rohtang Pass, near Manali till May 5, as the state government showed its resolve to explore all viable alternatives to replace diesel operated vehicles and check environmental pollution at popular high-altitude tourists’ …
The map, which measures ultrafine particles (UFPs), a "largely unexplored" pollutant found all over the city, was designed as part of a study that is to be published in the June 2015 edition of academic journal Atmospheric Environment. Areas of major pollution include Scarborough Town Centre, Highway 427 where it …
RAIPUR: Despite having the dubious distinction of being one of the 20 most polluted cities in world, Chhattisgarh Environment Control Board (CGECB) has stopped monitoring air quality in Raipur for last two months, thanks to the unwillingness of any industry or industrial body to foot the bill for maintenance of …
Lack of proper monitoring by Pollution Control Board and apathy of Vijayawada Municipal Corporation workers are only adding to the rise in pollution levels in Vijayawada. Air and water pollution is a major cause of conce-rn in Vijayawada since there is no proper garbage dumping facility for the city which …
