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Greenpeace battles for fuel efficiency law

Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Greenpeace on Tuesday launched a campaign demanding mandatory fuel efficiency for the car industry in India and organised a demonstration at Connaught Place here to send out a reminder that increasing carbon dioxide emissions were contributing to climate change. As part of the campaign, Greenpeace has launched a nationwide awareness and petitioning drive for consumers to pressurise the Bureau of Energy Efficiency to draft the fuel efficiency legislation.