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Press releases
August 11, 2008
National Portal on Environment launched by Sam Pitroda, chair National Knowledge Commission

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KNOW  HOW
arrowThrough education and training programmes understand issues of environment and development policy, poverty, democracy and equity. (download pdf)

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Events
CSE “picketed” by pesticide industry employees
CSE 'picketed' by pesticide industry employees
Editorial
'SLAPP'ed but will not submit
In the first week of April this year, a group of men came and stood outside the Centre for Science and Environment (cse), New Delhi.

They carried placards with offensive slogans directed at me. We understood the ‘protesters’ were ostensibly from an ngo we believed was a front for the pesticide industry. We also understood the picket to be the latest in a dangerous pesticide industry mindgame.

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to be Screened at India International Centre’s auditorium

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Students from the University of Oslo, Norway, explore the paradoxes confronting India, and some traditional means that offer simple solutions
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searching for rights
River runs dry
A series of hydropower projects on the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda may reduce the Ganga to a trickle. But project proponents will still be making money
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A hill station project in the Western Ghats is clouded by land grab allegations
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An exhibition captures different moods of Bangladesh in recent calamities
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Environment for children

After Oil?: Alternative Energy


[September 15, 2008]
Special coverage
Bali: No rich polluters' beach party
E magazine edition
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Climate Change: The Road to Bali and Beyond A re-look at key issues and concerns.
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arrowPowerpoint presentation
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arrowTongue-in-cheek: Cartoons
 Green Schools Award

Punjab felicitates Green School awardees
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Climate Alert
September 3, 2008
Equitywatch in climate : CSE/Down To Earth occasional alert

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Media Fellowship
The Eighth CSE Media Fellowship
October 15 – December 15, 2008
The Anatomy of Discord
Humans vs Wildlife in India’s Forests


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First CSE Media Fellowship
for the South Asian Region October 27 – December 27, 2008
Climate Change in South Asia: Indications, Impacts and Innovations for Survival

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Right to Clean Air campaign
arrowPolicy Police
Hush-hush public notice on emissions norms
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arrowAction Alert
On electric drive:
State governments have begun to provide support to electric vehicles.
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arrowFuel prices: correcting distortions

Correcting distortions

B K Chaturvedi Committee report

arrowSmog Digest
August 2008
Many developments on the vehicular pollution front in India captured from a selection of news clippings from 60 national & international news sources.
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Press releases
August 06, 2008
Despite massive investments, India lagging behind in wind energy

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August 06, 2008
Maharashtra is not using its wind energy capacity to its full

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August 04, 2008
CSE report says Karnataka gains little from mining

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 Book release
CSE cordially invites you to attend the release of its 6th State of India’s Environment report: Rich Lands, Poor People: Is Sustainable Mining Possible?
Shri Rameshwar Thakur,
Governor of Karnataka will release the report in Bangalore on Monday, August 4, 2008
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 Book & film release
CSE’s manual & film on wastewater recycling
 Exclusive
Burning hazardous waste at the BEIL
Down To Earth correspondent and citizen-village journalist file pictures of the devastating fire of burning hazardous waste at the Bharuch Enviro Infrastructure Limited (BEIL).
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 Policy paper on NREGA
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March 31, 08
NREGA has huge potential for rural development if it remains focused on creating village assets
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arrowNREGA policy paper [.pdf]
arrowRecommendations
CSE suggests changes to make NREGA a development tool
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arrowPhoto infopack
arrowNREGA: Background paper
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 Campaign: Right to Clean Air


arrowClick here to download CSE's letter to Mr. P Chidambaram (.pdf)
arrowRs. 1 lakh car
   Low cost, high risk

arrowConvergence
   Health, climate and vehicles
 Dieselisation
arrowDiesel cars
   Make sense for India? (.ppt)

arrowEvent highlights
   Roundtable on diesel (.ppt)
 Training programmes
Domestic wastewater treatment and reuse for engineers, architects, builders
New Delhi

September 22 – 26, 2008

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 New Publication
The 6th State of India’s Environment - a citizens' report, outlines the immense challenges facing the mining sector in India: how to ensure ecological security together with inclusive development.
Includes detailed maps, data tables and state case studies.
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Flip through the pages on your browser. Download .pdf

arrowMining in-depth
Mining hotspots (clickable map), state profiles, slideshows, background papers, policies, news...

arrowBook release:
Invitation Inviting citizens' participation on the release of the report

Response
CSE responds to comments issued by the Chhattisgarh government, following the release in Raipur of CSE’s 6th State of India’s Environment Report...
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See also: Press release
May 23, 2008
We stand by our report”: CSE responds to Chhattisgarh government’s criticism
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  Web dossiers
Diesel: Is India heading to a public health catastrophe?
Water: Industry pays a pittance for the water it wastes
Drip irrigation: Innovating with sustainable irrigation
CSE: Books store

Anil Agarwal Reader book cover Anil Agarwal Reader
A decade of incisive commentary on environment-development issues.

Available in three volumes, puts together the weekly essays/opinion pieces written by eminent environmentalist and journalist Anil Agarwal between 1991 and 2001.

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Analyses the strategies adopted to clean up the Yamuna, one of India's holiest and dirtiest rivers.

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 Action alert

The interceptor planAction alert: Delhi's interceptor sewer project

Is the Delhi government's Rs 1,950-crore project to lay 'interceptor' sewers to clean the river Yamuna just more money down the drain?
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Sunita Narain on climate change
At the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting in Georgetown, Guyana
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Press releases
July 21, 2008
Fuel economy standards for cars a step in the right direction: CSE
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June 05, 2008
Fuel price hike without measures to check oil guzzling is meaningless: CSE
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June 02, 2008
CSE's analysis of Automotive Research Association of India's CO2 emissions data points to increased oil guzzling from newer personal cars at a time when oil prices are skyrocketing
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arrowCarbon dioxide emissions from    vehicles increasing (.pdf)

arrowAvert the great guzzle (.pdf)
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May 21, 2008
Commuters – including car owners – support the BRT overwhelmingly: finds random survey by CSE and Delhi Greens
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The perception survey: Bus rapid transit system (BRT) [pdf]
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May 07, 2008
Nargis not just a natural disaster, but a human-made disaster because of climate change
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April 25, 2008

To contain Delhi’s growing air pollution and congestion, BRT is a step in the right direction -- says Bhure Lal of the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) and Sunita Narain, director, CSE
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April 08, 2008
Vishakhapatnam
Rich Lands, Poor People -- Is Sustainable Mining Possible?

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March 28, 2008
Jharkhand governor releases CSE’s study on mining
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[February06 2008]
Clean air before the Games: will Delhi go the Beijing way?
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January 28, 2008
Goa mining an ecological disaster; state needs stronger regulations to manage mining in the backyard of people’s homes, farms and forests, says latest CSE study
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