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 …
Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has drafted a comprehensive action plan for Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) in consultation with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) of the Delhi government. It has been agreed jointly that the Draft Action …
The monthly average PM 2.5 concentration was recorded to be the highest in November at all monitoring stations, except ITO and Dilshad Garden. The capital did not see a single “good” air quality day throughout winter, a report by the Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED) has revealed. The …
Mumbai, touted to have considerably cleaner air than most north Indian cities, has been recording far higher air pollution levels than Delhi for over two weeks now. The reason, surprisingly, may not be a sudden increase in Mumbai's emissions but a sharp improvement in Delhi's air quality, scientists said. The …
Say move to worsen Delhi’s air quality; others say it will meet power demand With the Badarpur thermal power plant, which has been closed since November 2016 to curb air pollution, expected to restart operations on Wednesday, environmentalists on Tuesday aired their concerns over the move. The plant was shut …
'City on brink of danger; timely action need of the hour' According to an independent study of air quality in Mangaluru, the air in the city is high in lead content and bears borderline indications of approaching danger on other parameters. The study was conducted by APD Foundation under its …
The 'Train for Clean Air: Clean Air for Kids' project came to an end on Thursday with three schools presenting their work on air pollution to the US embassy, Delhi government and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The schools had been working on the three-month programme organised by international NGO …
Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the UK all receive notification time is running out to bring air quality into line with EU standards . The threat of multi-million pound fines being levelled at the UK over its repeated breaches of EU air quality rules moved a step closer today, after …
The government looks set to extend the December 2017 deadline for coal-fired power stations to meet stricter emission norms, allowing time for them to consider replacing retro plants with modern units that release much less particulate and gaseous pollutants into the air. According to power minister Piyush Goyal, the environment …
While PM 2.5 and PM 10 stayed above the national standards, values of SO2 (Sulphur dioxide) recorded in Delhi were within the National Ambient Air Quality Standard. 2016 was particularly bad for the national capital in terms of air quality with the volume of ultrafine particulates PM 2.5 and PM …
2016 was particularly bad for the national capital in terms of air quality with the volume of ultrafine particulates PM 2.5 and PM 10 violating the annual safe standards by over five times in certain areas. As per pollution data, shared by Union Environment Minister Anil Dave in reply to …
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the governments of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) to chalk out a comprehensive plan to check air pollution in the Capital. A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur asked them …
A day after the Centre claimed there was no conclusive data to link deaths to air pollution, Greenpeace today said that the government should not waste time on debating the "already established" link and should take "urgent and corrective" action. The green body, which had recently claimed in a study …
Smog levels in New Delhi had reached 999 PM 2.5 - 16 times the safe level The 2016 report says that India has a PM 2.5 of 62, while the safe limit is 60 The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently released its 2016 data for the most polluted nations in …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Air pollution due to cutting of trees, 06/02/2017. The major steps taken by Government to check and reduce air pollution in cities and metro cities, inter alia, include notification of National Ambient Air Quality Standards; formulation of environmental regulations / statutes; setting up of …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Air pollution in places other than mega cities, 06/02/2017. Major steps taken by Government to address the problem of air pollution in cities of the country, inter alia, include notification of National Ambient Air Quality Standards; formulation of environmental regulations / statutes; setting up …
If elderly women are exposed to air pollution, they might be at increased risk of facing dementia, finds a study. The findings showed the fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) -- coming from power and automobile plants -- could invade the brain and wreak havoc in older women who live in …
After the air quality in the national capital witnessed a downward plummet on Republic Day (January 26), the next two days (January 27 and 28) offered some respite. Delhi, along with adjoining Noida and Gurugram breathed clean air for two days after almost three months of choking pollutants and smog. …
MANGALURU: We all knew that Mangaluru's ambient air quality was not in the pink of health — if not at all places, but at some major stress points in the city. This has been proved right by the study done by Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation 'Shudda Gaali' in their #StopSmokyVehicles …
Air quality in the city remained ‘very poor’ on Thursday with the level of particulates violating safe standards by up to three times during the parade hours when thousands thronged Rajpath. According to SAFAR, the running average of PM2.5 and PM10 were 130 and 236 micrograms per cubic metre respectively, …
This is the first time that a graded plan to improve air quality will be enforced in India. It will have a set of fixed measures that will kick in when pollution reaches specific levels. The national capital follows Beijing and Paris with graded action policy for curbs on pollutants …
