Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
BENGALURU: A large number of city residents held a candlelight vigil at 6.30 pm at Sarvodaya ABC Centre on Wednesday. They were protesting against the tree cutting planned at Govt Veterinary College Campus on Queen’s Road. Tree experts say the premises is a mini-forest with nearly 100 trees in the …
The Air Quality Index is calculated with the help of a calculator developed by the Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi. LED boards have been set up at five busy locations in the city that would display the Air Quality Index. The boards have been displayed at Sukhna lake (at …
GAIL (India) Limited, in line with their commitment aimed to change the air quality level with collective societal effort, hosted free car pollution check-up camp on the occasion of World Environment Day. This further reinforces the organisation’s commitment towards taking positive action to keep environmental degradation in check. Recent reports …
Most large urban areas tend to have only one air quality monitor for every 100 to 200 square miles. New York: Using specially equipped Google Street View cars to measure air quality on a block-by-block basis, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a detailed and extensive local map of …
Gurgaon: On the occasion of World Environment Day on Monday, city-based activists will today propose formation of a high-level task force to monitor sustainable development in Gurgaon. According to a blueprint prepared by the activists, the focus of the task force will be on six aspects — air quality, water …
Already dealing with the high particulate matters in the air, the national capital this summer has witnessed an alarming build-up of ozone, a Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) study said on Saturday. According to the CSE findings, on several occasions and several locations, between February and May 2017, the …
Panaji: The Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB), which is monitoring the ambient air quality in the mining belt, has sought time from the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) to submit comments over increasing the iron ore output cap in Goa. The ministry had sought comments from …
NEW DELHI: The government is planning solutions and devices for waste management using internet of things (IoT). The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is examining a proposal to use IoT for waste management as part of its Smart City programme. “For Smart City programme to flourish, waste management would …
Anumita Roychowdhury from the Centre for Science and Environment said, “The Delhi government should take action based on daily air quality levels. They need to expedite mechanisms for implementation of the action plan.” Though the Union Environment Ministry notified the ‘graded response action plan’ to combat air pollution in Delhi-NCR …
Expressions of Interest (EoI) will be invited in a few weeks for inviting an international consultant to study and work on the improvement of air quality at the Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT), chairman MT Krishna Babu said, adding that the consultant will be finalised in a couple of months. Addressing …
* Air pollution is responsible for about one in every nine deaths annually, with almost two-thirds of those deaths in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia, the WHO says. * By 2040, Asia will account for almost 90 percent of the rise in premature deaths attributable to air pollution. * …
The global human health impact of the diesel emissions scandal has been revealed by new research showing a minimum of 38,000 people a year die early due to the failure of diesel vehicles to meet official limits in real driving conditions. Researchers have created the first global inventory of the …
New Study Tries To Quantify Air Quality Gains The strategy to cut down air pollution levels in the capital by 2030 has to go much beyond the government's current plan and will perhaps have to be slightly different from the strategies adopted by western or industrialised countries, says a paper …
Crackdown By Punjab, Haryana Working So Far There has been an increase in burning of wheat crop stubble in Punjab and Haryana this week compared with the previous one, Nasa's satellite pictures reveal. But the images also reveal a larger and more significant trend -the practice of crop-burning is down …
CSE had described the situation as alarming and the smog episode as the worst in 17 years The November-2016 smog episode in Delhi, when air pollution had hit perilous levels, might have temporarily triggered a "spike" in the rate of death in the national capital, according to experts. In the …
The Lieutenant Governor (L-G) on Monday approved the municipal corporation's action plan to convert municipal solid waste to energy and asked them to come up with a system to incentivise the use of recycled products. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by L-G Anil Baijal at Raj Niwas …
Dr Gufran Beig, Project Director at SAFAR, said that the percentage of pollutants in the air from vehicular emission has increased manifold as compared to that from other sources. The need for a science-based urban Air Quality Management (AQM) programme was strongly felt way back in 2004 after Pune was …
Hyderabad: The US Consulate General in Hyderabad and Hyderabad Urban Lab organised a panel discussion on Air Quality in Hyderabad on Thursday at Lamakaan. Experts, activists, Urban geographers, students and young professionals participated in the programme. Members at the discussion stated that the problem of air pollution is as big …
The samples were collected on National Highway 2 to see how much traffic coming in from outside Delhi contributes to the formation of particulate matter. Significant traces of lead was found in ambient air samples near a kerbside monitoring site set up on Mathura Road by researchers from the IIT-Delhi. …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Air quality of cities, 10/04/2017. Cities can be ranked on the basis of different criteria pollutants with different results. On the basis of data monitored during 2015, higher levels of Particulate Matters (PM10) were observed in Ghaziabad, Allahabad, Bareilly, Jharia, Delhi, Ranchi, Kanpur, Ferozabad, …
