CSE releases Body Burden 2015: State of India’s Health report on public health threats and their environmental linkages
CSE review has exposed the shocking fact that several state governments across the country are giving sops of extra free built up area to developers to get their buildings green rated without independent official oversight on their operations
Date: December 12, 2015
Diesel exhaust has already been branded as human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the WHO has shocked the world
December 10, 2015 As the Paris talk shift gear and move towards closure, a coalition led by the United States and European Union has emerged and talks are heading for an agreement even though contentious issues are unresolved and continue to simmer.
Draft Paris agreement text has been released
Date: December 9, 2015
Personal vehicles bearing odd and even registration numbers to ply on alternate days; Badarpur power plant to be shut down; Euro VI emissions standards mandatory from 2017; entry of trucks to be delayed
“It is shocking that at a time when killer pollution in Delhi demands strong restraints on car usage, our municipal agencies are pressing flawed laws to stop priced parking in commercial complexes and malls”: CSE’s Air Pollution Control team
Unregulated urbanisation and climate change-induced extreme weather are the reasons behind the crisis in Chennai: CSE
Says his speech has set the ground rules for Indian negotiators to work towards an ambitious and equitable deal
CSE brings you updates from the field as climate change talks get underway. Daily reports, analyses, videos, infographics, interviews, blogs, images…
CSE releases the results of its exposure air quality monitoring during Delhi marathon event today Finds unacceptable level of exposure to trapped pollutants typical of winter months Delhi needs a combination of long lasting reforms as well as a contingent plan to clean up its air
Says Bharat Stage IV standards, currently in force in a few cities, must be extended nation-wide immediately
National consultation concludes, recommendations to be shared with government; CSE report ‘Lived Anomaly’ released by noted agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan and, Siraj Husain, Agriculture Secretary, Government of India