Towards a dirty Yamuna
Industries, government, ignore apex court committee s proposals for effluent treatment
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Sewage Outpour
When <font class='UCASE'>prashant krishnan, vinita garg, aditya jha, gurpreet singh</font> and <font class='UCASE'>neeraj kumar</font> set out to map Mayapuri s drainage,they had no inkling that new lessons on sewerage would be in the offing
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DTC has no option but to implement the Court orders within the deadline
Bhure Lal, chairperson, Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control Authority EPCA for the National Capital Region
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Govt lacks will to implement pollution control steps
EPA : The apex court has set the deadlines and Delhi government is supposed to implement them. The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control ) Authority (EPCA) is to monitor them. The objective
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Whose responsibility is it anyway?
Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned
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CSE condemns misrepresentation of findings of recent CSIR study on diesel and CNG buses
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Legal battle
TELCO serves a legal notice to CSE. CSE challenges it to go to court
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Abysmal performance
Down To Earth ranked the performance of the authorities who were responsible for introducing CNG buses in Delhi. On a scale of one to 10, none scored more than five. The ministry of environment and forests, that has been accorded the bottom most rung of t
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Review of existing cap on the number of three-wheelers in Delhi
<p>EPCA reviews existing cap on number of three-wheelers in Delhi and its implications on mobility, pollution and congestion. Recommends that existing restriction on the number of TSRs imposed by Supreme court be lifted as of April 2010, when the Bharat III norms come into force.</p>
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"Intelligent' adulteration
It is possible to adulterate carefully without violating specifications
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Panel wants ban on mining to continue
The Environment Protection and Control Authority has again recommended the continuation of the ban imposed on mining in Haryana in the 5 km areas from the Delhi border. The EPCA committee led by Mr.
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Free-ranging EPCA
A recent report from the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) - a five member agency charged by the Supreme Court with monitoring pollution in the national capital-threatens to obliterate
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Hospitals asked for action taken reports on waste disposal
The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) for the National Capital Region has called upon the city's hospitals to give it the action taken reports on the safe handling of hospital waste. At
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EPCA Report On Delhi Air Pollution To Supreme Court
The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), which had approached the Supreme Court, told the bench headed by chief justice T.S. Thakur that it had handed over a list of checks to various municipal
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Forced To Act
Fearing a ban, Indian industry has announced that it can accept emission warranty system for two stroke two wheeler vehicles with catalytic converters. But is it yet another eyewash
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The deadly public sector
It is clear that the state does not function in India. Politicians and bureaucrats can go hang themselves
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NDMC plans complete revamp of Khan Market
The New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has said that the only way Khan Market can undergo complete redevelopment would be if it takes a page out of the Panchkuian Road model, which involved the relocation of 220 furniture shops to the Delhi Metro
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Applying the brakes
Environmentalists score a major victory as the Supreme Court tightens emission standards in Delhi,
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Delhi CM vs EPCA on pollution source, Is this blame game also choking Delhi?
#DelhiChokes after pollution levels across Delhi-NCR shot up & average 24 hr AQI crossed 300 today. EPCA claims stubble burning contributes 11%, pollution body says states' local sources are larger contributors.
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Saboteurs Unlimited
The key actors in the government responsible for implementing the Supreme Court order do not share the vision to safeguard public health. An incredible effort is being made to secure the diesel market for the state owned refineries, a segment of bus manuf