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 …
Self-driving electric taxis could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from conventional car travel in the US by 94% in 2030, according to a study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. These future “robocabs” would be battery-powered and driven without human intervention, picking up and dropping off passengers using automated technologies. Greenhouse gas …
The EU should set challenging new fuel efficiency targets for new cars in 2025 to reduce motoring costs for consumers and tackle climate change, according to four member countries. Environment and transport ministers from the Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden and Finland have written to the European commission saying the new goal …
Hong Kong was shrouded in higher-than-normal pollution yesterday as "very high" levels were recorded across some of the busiest areas of the city. Areas such as Central and Western District, Causeway Bay, Mong Kok and Kwun Tong recorded "very high" levels of 10 at intervals throughout the day. The Environment …
Very little is currently known about air pollutants’ adverse effects on neurodegenerative diseases even though recent studies have linked particulate exposures to brain pathologies associated with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Here we investigate long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and Parkinson’s disease.
India's technology hub, that had become an international byword for outsourcing, is gasping for fresh air as high vehicular emissions, increasing industrial fumes and rising dust from construction activities are polluting its atmosphere and harming its 10 million denizens. Once known to be a pensioners' paradise for its salubrious climate …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Court on its own Motion Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. dated 06/07/2015 regarding pollution at Rohtang Pass. The Tribunal has noted with serious concern that there is complete chaos at the Rohtang Pass and its adjacent glaciers, which, …
After announcing its intention to impose a pollution tax on goods vehicles entering the national capital in the Budget, the Delhi government has decided to appoint MCDs as the nodal agency to collect the congestion fees. In his Budget speech, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia announced that the AAP government …
Fifteen years ago, California led the way to cleaner transit buses with strict tailpipe emissions standards that effectively ushered out diesel as the primary fuel for buses in the state and replaced it with natural gas. Now, California is poised once again to take the lead, this time by mandating …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Tribunal On Its Own Motion Vs Union of India & Ors dated 01/07/2015 regarding pollution caused by motor boats using adulterated fuel and thus polluting the Sunderban atmosphere. Subhas Datta, Advocate (Amicus Curiae) of the Applicant …
Lung reactions to exposure to dust, gases, and fumes at work places have been studied in different populations. The emission level of pollutants that emit particulate matter less than 10 micrometers in size (PM 10) has been found very high in Ahmedabad. Hence, petrol pump workers in Ahmedabad are likely …
MUMBAI: Anticipating a strong protest from the public, especially after the draft development plan disaster, the BMC has decided to overhaul the hawking zone drive. The BMC had mapped out about 60,000 hawking 'patches'—one usually accommodates a single vendor—across the city and is trying to accommodate nearly 90,000 hawkers during …
MYSURU: The Mysuru chapter of Young Indians (YI), a wing of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), on Saturday launched a campaign against honking. Members of YI distributed stickers and stuck some of them on vehicles at main junctions in the city. "Being an environmental engineering student, I know how noise …
Successive Delhi governments have not been serious about improving the notoriously bad quality of air that people breathe in the national capital. As pollution gradually peaked to alarming levels, governments sat on special ‘air quality’ funds, official documents accessed by Mail Today reveal. In the last seven years, the Delhi …
Controlling emissions from the in-use fleet, particularly from high emitters and older vehicles, can immediately alleviate urban air pollution. As pressure to address China's air quality issues builds, Guangdong Province has taken several steps toward that end. Cities in Guangdong have established programs based on their specific capabilities and needs. …
The government also proposed to increase registration tax for all categories of private vehicles — registered in the name of companies and partnership firms — by 25 per cent of the existing rate. Terming vehicular pollution as the main cause of Delhi’s deteriorating air quality, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia …
Diesel heavy vehicles plying in Delhi at night will have to pay for polluting the city's air. In its first budget, the AAP government has proposed congestion fees of Rs 100 to Rs 1,500 on different classes of goods vehicles in the form of a tax. More than 50,000 heavy …
Central Crime Branch raids six testing centres, unearths racket The centres, according to the CCB, were issuing fake emission testing certificates and would test vehicles without following the due procedure prescribed by the transport department. Emission certificates issued by some private centres in the City can be manipulated, it has …
The stringent BS VI norms could help bring down pollution levels further but car makers argue they would escalate cost and compromise safety India might become the first country to completely skip one stage of emission standards and move directly from the fourth to the sixth stage (Bharat IV to …
Raising the issue of environmental pollution mainly caused due to vehicles, Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu has written a letter to minister of petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan demanding the provision of clean fuel, CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) at all filling stations in Punjab. Pointing at important issues in …
Despite attempts being taken to tackle the menacing problem of pollution in Delhi, the situation continues to remain grim with air, water, noise and vehicular pollution registering an alarming increase during the last few years. Delhi has witnessed an excessive increase in water, noise and vehicular pollution, while the quality …
