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 …
Banning autos in CBD not feasible either; two-stroke vehicles plying illegally The Department of Transport and Road Safety has described as illogical the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board's (KSPCB) order that it should stop registration of new vehicles in Bangalore until pollution levels are controlled The Department of Transport and …
Specially designed electric buses will be able to wirelessly charge their batteries while they wait at bus stands under new trials announced today (27 August) by Transport for London (TfL). The new inductive charging technology will be trialled on up to four extended range diesel electric hybrid buses in east …
The High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to hold a meeting with all stakeholders and come up with an action plan on how the air and noise pollution in the City can be controlled, and submit the plan at the next hearing on September 16. The High Court …
An analysis of Tianjin's air pollutants has identified dust as the main component of the city's smog. Tianjin, about 100 kilometers southeast of Beijing, is the second city after the capital to release an analysis of its fine particulate matter, or PM2.5. The analysis, released over the weekend, comes after …
A small group of politicians could be spotted in Parliament Square last month struggling to squeeze wires and tubes into jacket pockets and handbags. As traffic thundered around them, members of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) were being fitted with air pollution monitors. At the flick of a switch, tubes …
The recent findings by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have revealed that tigers in disturbed areas have high-stress levels. The findings have come out in the aftermath of the Sariska tiger reintroduction exercise. It revealed that stress levels, particularly in female tigers, affect their breeding as stress was the …
Because human activities emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) and conventional air pollutants from common sources, policy designed to reduce GHGs can have co-benefits for air quality that may offset some or all of the near-term costs of GHG mitigation. We present a systems approach to quantify air quality co-benefits of US …
In order to ensure that polluting vehicles are off Delhi roads, the Delhi Government has decided to stop sale of diesel and petrol to vehicles which do not possess Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates. The decision to this effect comes as per the recommendation of the city government’s high-powered committee …
Back in the summer of ’65, a group of self-styled anarchists whitewashed 50 bicycles and stationed them in the center of Amsterdam. “We wanted to save the city,” said Luud Schimmelpennink, 79, who invented the “White Bicycle Plan” as a member of the anti-establishment Provo movement. “The idea was that …
Vehicles which do not possess Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates will not be provided diesel and petrol in the national capital from October 1. The decision to this effect was taken up by the city government’s high-powered committee, constituted by lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung, on Wednesday. The committee, set up to …
EU regulators are preparing draft legislation that will require vehicle fuel use to be tested on roads rather than in laboratories, looking to close loopholes that allow car makers to exaggerate fuel-saving and emissions credentials. Already from Sept. 1, slightly tougher EU testing standards will be enforced, in line with …
TEHRAN- Iran plans to place 400,000 electric motorcycles and 140,000 hybrid taxi cabs on the market as part of a plan backed by the Oil Ministry to help environment protection, said the managing director of Iran Fuel Conservation Company (IFCC). Elaborating on the government's above-stated plan, Nosratollah Seifi said, "Due …
China's coal consumption has declined for the first time in about 100 years in the first half of 2014, as the world's second largest economy is striving to achieve cleaner growth by declaring a "war on pollution". Activist group Greenpeace International said in a blog post that China's coal use …
There has been considerable reduction in the number of air-borne diseases in the civic jurisdiction, as per the Environmental Status Report (2013-14). According to the statistics provided by the health department, compared to 2,132 in 2012, the number of air-borne diseases detected last year was 574, while the deaths recorded …
CPCB implements the National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring (NAMP) through a network comprising 523 operating ambient air quality stations covering 215 cities/towns in states and Union territories of the country in compliance with the mandate under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 to collect compile and disseminate …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sanjay Kulshresthra Vs Union of India & Others dated 19/08/2014 regarding vehicular pollution. The Applicant has submitted that not only the quality of the fuel and its utilization but also the extent of its utilization are …
SHIMLA: Expressing its dissatisfaction over report submitted by Himachal Pradesh government on Rohtang pollution issue, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a panel that would conduct surprise inspection of Rohtang Pass area to see whether there is compliance of February 6 order of the tribunal and to what extent …
Chinese government policies are sparking a surge in the production of new energy vehicles including electric and hybrid cars, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday. In the first seven months of this year, production of such vehicles rose 280 percent from a year earlier to 25,946, Xinhua said, citing …
Salt produced in various parts of Tuticorin is exposed to air pollution. The quality of salt is thus degraded, said A.R.A.S. Dhanabalan, secretary, Tuticorin Small Scale Salt Manufacturers Association, here on Tuesday. Salt pans at Ayyanarkulam, Tharuvaikulam, Keezha Arasadi and Pattinamaruthur were increasingly polluted by fly ash from power plant. …
Beijing will ban the consumption of high-polluting fuels in downtown areas by 2020, the municipal environmental protection authority said. The Economic and Technological Development Zone in Yizhuang, Daxing district will be the first area with zero consumption of high-polluting fuels by the end of this year, according to a new …
