‘When The World Was Banning TFA, We Were Promoting Vanaspati’
Pushback from the industry and a weak regulator has allowed deadly industrial trans fats to continue in the Indian food chain, says Amit Khurana of the CSE
Pushback from the industry and a weak regulator has allowed deadly industrial trans fats to continue in the Indian food chain, says Amit Khurana of the CSE
The pandemic has ebbed, but only in our mind’s attention space, and this is extremely unfortunate. The virus is ravaging now and has spread across the country. It has gone beyond big cities to remote towns and villages, where there is not even a semblance of health care, forget ventilators. Now is when the impact is worse — people who have the infection are doubly, no, triply hit and hurt, devastated. They have no option but to go back to work. They cannot afford a lockdown.
New Delhi, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) The government of the capital of India sanctioned the Electrical Vehicles Policy, which aims to make a quarter of all new vehicle registrations in this city batteryoperated by 2024, the media reported today.
Transport minister Kailash Gahlot said revising the road tax and levying a congestion fee are means devised by experts and officials to provide the funds required to push the demand for electric vehicles in the city by offering a variety of incentives.
NEW DELHI: Environment experts Friday welcomed the Delhi government notifying its Electric Vehicle Policy, but said implementation will be the key and suggested installing sufficient number of charging stations for it to become successful.
Environment experts Friday welcomed the Delhi government notifying its Electric Vehicle Policy, but said implementation will be the key and suggested installing sufficient number of charging stations for it to become successful. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday launched ''Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy'' under which his government will waive registration fee and road tax, and provide incentive of up to Rs 1.5 lakh for new electric cars in the national capital. Environment expert Vimlendu Jha said, “As a policy, electric vehicles sound very clean. But until and unless the supply of electricity is non-coal and non-thermal, it does not make much of a difference.”
For the past few months, there has been a public outcry over the draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2020. Activists, environmental groups, biologists and students have claimed that the notification is “anti-people”, “anti-environment” and “pro-industries”.
Delhi traffic police control room records show that from May 20 — when public transport and public movement resumed in the city after restrictions were eased — to August 5, at least 15 arterial stretches have seen an increase in vehicular traffic.
NEW DELHI: The Public Works Department built cycle tracks across the city, only to see them taken over by shops and motorised two-wheelers. The Covid lockdown, however, heralded the return of bicycles on the road, to some extent because of the absence public transport. After the capital opened up, Delhiites are still pedalling on short-distance trips, leaving traffic experts to believe that this is the ideal time to induct bicycles and electric vehicles into the public transport system.
With just a couple of months left before farmers in Punjab and Haryana start burning crop stubble, both the states have submitted an action plan and a status report to Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) detailing how they plan to provide incentives and raise awareness to curb th problem.
NEW DELHI - Ms Arasmani Devi, 36, plucks out a needle from a used injection with her bare hands, before throwing its plastic barrel and plunger into a sack of potentially recyclable items. Her 40-year-old husband Akhilesh Paswan works next to her at a recycling yard in Noida, a suburb near Delhi.
Reversing policies aimed to eliminate single-use plastics will do us more harm than good On one of his usual walks collecting plastic trash in Chennai, B. Gowtham recently noticed a goat wearing a discarded face mask. “It’s sad,” he says, adding
In a sharp rebuttal to a full-page advertorial published in the daily “Business Standard” (July 29), more than 160 academics, activists and NGOs, many of them working in the environmental field, have said that the content the advertorial by the all-India pesticides and chemical fertilizer industry body, Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), is “malafide as it seeks to promote harmful agricultural practices detrimental to public interest.”
Mansoor Khan and his wife Latifa Bibi have been collecting scraps of plastic and other items at an enormous landfill site on the outskirts of New Delhi for nearly 20 years.
CHENNAI: An online environmental survey, conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment, evoked tremendous response as it witnessed participation of over 47,000 students from 28 states with Delhi being on the top with 8,000 participants, said a press release issued by the CSE on Monday.