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 …
BEIJING (Reuters) - Four cities in China’s northeastern province Heilongjiang were accused by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) of increasing air pollution due to administrative failures. “Despite a red alert for bad weather, the cities failed to enforce emergency measures to reduce emissions ... which missed the opportunity to …
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s federal government on Tuesday released 1 billion euros ($1.19 billion) of promised funding to help municipalities tackle diesel pollution but environmentalists doubt the move will help avert bans of polluting vehicles. Pressure is growing on Germany to enforce Clean Air limits introduced in the European Union …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has asked the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change as well as the Central Pollution Control Board to suggest additional measures that can be added to "severe plus" category in the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), …
Asserts that no single authority can be held responsible for rising air pollution The country’s top environment ministry bureaucrat said that “harsh measures” could be on the anvil to prevent a repeat of the smog that engulfed Delhi earlier this month. “As the government, we are determined to not let …
BENGALURU: Spiralling levels of pollution in the city have prompted lawmakers to contemplate setting up a separate pollution control board for the megacity. With various studies indicating that the situation is alarming, the issue of having an exclusive pollution control board for Bengaluru was discussed in the legislative council during …
With the air quality in Delhi remaining “very poor” on Monday, the Delhi Heath Department of issued a health advisory and appealed to citizens to join hand and work towards improving the air quality The AQI score on Monday was 367, an increase from 352 on Sunday and 322 on …
The CSE report, “Body Burden: Lifestyle Diseases”, estimated that India had 22.2 million chronic COPD patients and around 35 million chronic asthma patients in 2016. Air pollution causes 30 per cent premature deaths in the country, a report released on Monday by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has …
NEW DELHI: Highlighting major links between environment and health, a study released here on Monday held lifestyle diseases like obesity, mental health, cancer and heart diseases to count a few, as the major killers in India. Revealing the links of air pollution with mental diseases, a report by Centre for …
While some regions across Delhi-NCR saw an improvement in the air quality from “severe plus or emergency” to “severe” on Saturday, the national capital continues inhaling toxins with no respite likely for at least a week, officials and experts said. The stubble burning, which according to the farmers is in …
The measure is expected to cut down pollution in the city The Delhi government has been given a deadline of December, 2018, to increase the number of buses in the Capital's fleet to 10,000. The measure is expected to cut down pollution in the city. The programme, for which the …
NEW DELHI: Children in Delhi have a far lower lung capacity and lung growth rate than kids of the same age in the US, according to a recent study by the department of pulmonary medicine at the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute. While much of this could be attributed to genetics …
NEW DELHI: Although the capital's air quality stayed in the 'very poor' category on Sunday, it's likely to become close to 'severe' by the next three days. The overall air quality index (AQI), released by Central Pollution Control Board, rose from 322 on Saturday to 352 as falling temperatures trapped …
The additional cost incurred for either completely scrapping the engine-run vehicles or replacing engines can now be saved, the team said. Black soot and harmful gases emitted from the exhaust of public buses and heavy vehicles operating on diesel engines seem set to reduce substantially, thereby not just reducing the …
The Air Quality Index (AQI), calculated by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), was 352 on a scale of 500 Pollution levels in Delhi rose on Sunday leading to a dip in air quality with monitoring agencies forecasting a further spike over the next few days. The Air Quality Index …
The new report from Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released yesterday held lifestyle diseases like obesity, mental health, cancer and heart diseases to count a few, as the major killers in India. Revealing the links of air pollution with mental diseases, it stated that air pollution is responsible for …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nature’s Watch Reg. Society Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 27/11/2017 regarding air pollution in Muradabad City, Uttar Pradesh. Counsel appearing for the State of Uttar Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board submit that they will do …
The report addresses DUST (environmental pollutant generated during handling of construction material and C&D; wastes) abatement measures during handling of construction material and C&D; wastes on-site and off-site.
The Centre will soon set up an inter-ministerial task force, headed by the Prime Minister's principal secretary, Nripendra Mishra, to look into the issue of Delhi's air pollution and find ways and means to deal with it in a comprehensive manner. The task force, comprising of Union secretaries of environment, …
It is learnt that the EPCA is now mulling over a proposal to make the enforcement mechanism automatic so that such situations can be avoided The Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority (EPCA) is soon planning to devise a system under which measures like odd-even will kick in automatically when …
Nagpur: City's air quality has worsened once again with particulate matter PM2.5 being almost five times more than the permissible limit. Experts attributed the sudden deterioration to different sources. As per the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) data, there has been a sudden spike in PM2.5 which are particles less …
