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 …
MERUT: Railway Road was the noisiest area in the city during the Diwali festival period, while Cantonment Board area was the quietest, shows data recorded by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB). While the noise pollution was lower than for the corresponding period last year, air pollution levels shot …
Sierra Leone`s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is mulling an idea for a new law to tackle an increasing spate of smoke-related pollution, the Acting Director of Policy Planning and Research at the EPA, Ali Dukullay Jalloh, disclosed here Tuesday. Jalloh added that the move is to cut down on emission …
Members of the European Parliament are expected to vote against car pollution testing rules they say are too soft on automakers and fail to learn the lessons of Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal, politicians and EU sources said. Members of the Parliament's environment committee said they had cross-party support for a …
NEW DELHI: India's push to produce less polluting BS-VI fuel by 2020 may not necessarily result in cleaner air in heavily-polluted Indian cities for many years after that, as most vehicles on the road will not be able to use this fuel. Life-threatening pollution levels in cities-13 of the top …
Detection of high levels of lead in blood sets off alarm bells India’s bustling metros are a nightmare for motorists and traffic policemen who manage traffic. They are often at the receiving end for failures, but they are also the ones who are most exposed to serious health hazards from …
A day after holding its second car-free day in the capital, the AAP government claimed that Dwarka area used during the event showed “significant” reduction in the level of pollutants in the air. The government said this while releasing the comparative ambient air quality figures collated by the Delhi Pollution …
The Capital provides more land for car parks than for housing for poor people.The approximately 4.5 million slum population in Delhi occupies only 3 per cent of Delhi’s area. But the parking demand generated by cars makes the demand close to 10 per cent of Delhi’s urbanised land, according to …
The effectiveness of car-free day in reducing Delhi's air pollution levels is massive, provided it's not just a monthly affair. This was opined by Centre for Science and Environment, which had taken up the task to monitor the effect of the event on pollution. On Sunday , CSE compared the …
NEW DELHI: If you care for Delhi, make sure to leave your car at home on January 22.That was the message of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday, as he declared that day , a Friday, a car-free day in the entire length and breadth of the capital. The CM …
Global emissions scenarios studies, such as those informing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (AR5), highlight the importance of the transport sector for climate change mitigation—along with the difficulties of achieving deep reductions therein (1) [supplementary materials (SM)]. Transport is responsible for about 23% of total …
PUNE: Fixing the manufacturers' responsibility for the emission performance of their products is the most effective way to curb vehicular pollution, not on-road tests. New Delhi's research group Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) made this observation. Following the Volkswagen incident, experts fear the investment in emission control system in …
Public health experts on Wednesday cited numerous scientific studies to show the devastating impacts of air pollution on health and said that Delhi and the rest of India should not delay action to check this trend. Their presentations were part of a panel discussion organized by the US embassy called …
Expressing concern over the ambient air quality of Kolkata and Howrah, the Kolkata Bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday named the principal secretary (home), the principal secretary (environment), K N Agarwal, a scientist of the Central Pollution Control Board, Kolkata region, and Prof S C Santra of Kalyani …
LUCKNOW: Put off your evening walk plan if you have an ailment of lungs, especially chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), warn experts. That's because change of season increases rate of air pollution drastically after Diwali. Addressing reporters on the eve of World COPD awareness day here on Tuesday, pulmonologist Dr …
Is your cough and cold persisting for more than two weeks? Blame the air. Doctors say the high pollution in Delhi is aggravating inflammation of the upper and the lower respiratory tracts, making viral infections and related disorders persistent and difficult to treat. "Cough and respiratory distress due to viral …
The recent Volkswagen corporate fraud has exposed gaps in emissions regulations in India and makes the country "extremely" vulnerable as it is "dieselizing" rapidly without the right norms and compliance framework for manufacturers, a green body said today. Centre for Science and Environment CSE) said that the Volkswagen fraud was …
The private company collecting toll tax from trucks entering Delhi from neighbouring states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan today told the Supreme Court that it was not in a position to comply with the court order for collection of pollution tax from these commercial vehicles. The company, SMYRLLP which …
The continued levy of Environment Compensatory Charge (ECC) at entry points to Delhi to cut pollution is facing a looming roadblock with one of the toll companies on Monday threatening in the Supreme Court to quit rather than go through the “headache” of collecting the money. Moments after a three-judge …
SMYR Consortium, the South Corporationappointed toll contractor, has collected Rs 4.32 crore as green tax from trucks entering Delhi so far. The firm has started implementing a Supreme Court order directing levying of an environ ment compensation charge (ECC) on multi-axle heavy vehicles since November 6. However, the corporation claims …
While high levels of pollution due to increasing number of vehicles is one problem, poor Pollution under Control (PUC) test centres worsen the air. In a workshop organised by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on 'Urban air quality challenge and strategies to reduce emissions from in use and …
