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Alarm over air pollution and public health, languishing vehicle technology, and mobility crisis in South Asian cities

New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and TVE Asia Pacific jointly organise a media briefing in Colombo on the Challenges of Air Quality and Mobility Management in South Asian Cities . Colombo, like Delhi, is facing a serious air pollution problem – toxic risk from rapidly growing numbers …

Alarm over air pollution & public health, languishing vehicle technology & mobility crisis in South Asian cities

New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and TVE Asia Pacific jointly organise a media briefing in Colombo on the Challenges of Air Quality and Mobility Management in South Asian Cities . Colombo, like Delhi, is facing a serious air pollution problem – toxic risk from rapidly growing numbers …

Euro IV norms in 13 cities, but rest of India left in the lurch

As BS IV norms for fuels and vehicles come into force from April 1, 2010 in 13 cities, the automobile industry is trying to delay implementation of BS III norms for vehicles in the rest of India. This is not acceptable, says CSE. By April 1, 2010, 13 cities in …

Performance evaluation of low heat rejection diesel engine with blends of diesel and waste fried vegetable oil

Alternate fuel research has been the topic of the highest priority in the context of depletion of fossil fuels at alarming rate and increasing of pollution levels of the engines with conventional fuels. Alcohols and vegetable oils are major alternate fuels for diesel fuel as they are renewable in nature. …

Pollution Is Called a Byproduct of a Clean Fuel

After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior River, which runs through their backyards, Mark Storey, a retired petroleum plant worker, hopped into his boat to follow it upstream to its source. It turned out to be an old …

Biofuel blends not as green as they seem

Despite their green intentions, buyers of blended biofuel may not be getting quite what they are paying for. Chris Reddy, an environmental chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, has developed a test which reveals the proportions of biodiesel and conventional diesel in the fuel mix. It works …

Report on clean fuels

Report on clean fuels in response to the Hon’ble Supreme Court order dated March 26, 2001 & April 27,2001 (In the matter of W.P.(C) No.13029 of 1985; M.C. Mehta v/s UOI & others).

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