Air Quality and Public Health

CSE's Press Release: Dialogue on Air Pollution and our health

• Doctors warn: We need to act fast to breathe easy

• Noted doctors, health researchers and air quality regulators met in the capital today to warn that cities may wake up to more wheeze and other ailments if health concerns are not heeded for air pollution control.

Dialogue on Air Pollution and our health: Photos

Briefing Note: Dialogue Air Pollution and Our Health

August 31, 2011
 
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Centre for Science and Environment joined hands with Indian Council for Medical Research and Indian Medical Association to organize a dialogue with the noted doctors – (respiratory physicians, cardiologists, pediatricians, oncologists), the air quality regulators, and health experts to track the newer concerns over health risks of polluted air.

CSE’s international conference on parking reforms

Call for a parking strategy for better management that can control traffic chaos as well as dampen parking demand and car usage

Press Note: CSE analyses recently released six-city study on air pollution sources from environment ministry, finds flaws in it

Says auto industry misusing the study to derail tighter emissions standards and encourage polluting diesel cars

Workshop on Toxic Air and Our Health: Dialogue with Doctors

Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi

Dhaka CNG workshop photos

Winter pollution is back with a difference. City now faces the threat of multiple pollutants going up together

• Not only are the tiny particles choking us, nitrogen dioxide levels have worsened; daily peaks of carbon monoxide are unacceptable, ozone pollution has persisted through the winter months. This has emerged from the official public information system on daily air pollution and monitoring. Some of these pollutants come predominantly from vehicles.

Tracking Winter Pollution in Delhi 2010

Time to breath easy is over, air pollution is reaching critical levels again this winter. CSE has reviewed the daily air quality data generated by the Central Pollution Control Board and others.
(Air pollution facts. pdf)

Press Release: Formula to tax diesel cars ineffective, says CSE

Digs holes in Kirit Parikh panel’s report