• Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2014

Decentralised renewable energy is the solution to India's energy poverty

Union minister for new and renewable energy, Farooq Abdullah, releases CSE’s Citizen’s Report on State of Renewable Energy

• Media Resource Centre

CSE welcomes National Green Tribunal order shutting down all steel foundries in Jasodharpur Industrial Area (Uttarakhand) that are working without a consent from the State Pollution Control Board

• The Jasodharpur Industrial Area, near Kotdwar in Uttarakhand, has many foundries operating without the consent of the Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB).

• Media Resource Centre

Who is the one not playing by the rules - India or the US?

• US complains again to World Trade Organization about India ‘restricting US companies from doing business in India’

• Mining and Environment

CSE criticises the United Progressive Alliance government's move to let the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill lapse

The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (MMDR) Bill 2011 was tabled in Parliament in December, 2011 – it will lapse if not passed 

• Global Industry

South Asia convention on Coastal Management

Representatives from South Asian countries came together to discuss issues related to regulating and managing coastal development, protecting coastal habitats and climate change

• Food and Toxins

Unregulated and unlawful

Presence of heavy metals in cosmetics – a CSE study release

• Habitat

BRIEFING NOTE: CSE's Regional Dialogue on Sustainable Building

Bhubaneswar, December 13, 2013

• Media Resource Centre

Stop weakening the environmental clearance process: says CSE to government

New assessment by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) finds large number of clearances still being given by the ministry of environment to industrial projects

• Habitat

Waste to Resource: Briefing note CSE warns cities are choking on and because of their own construction and demolition (C&D) waste with serious environmental consequences

• Media Briefing Workshops

PRESS INVITE: Regional Dialogue on Sustainable ('green') Building Bhubaneswar December-13-2013

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), and Bhubaneswar Development Authority invites you to Regional Dialogue on Sustainable (‘green’) Building Bhubaneswar, December 13, 2013 Our aspiration for higher standards of living is accompanied by an ever-increasing gap between energy demand and supply. Plagued with the highest distribution and transmission losses in the world, buildings (domestic and commercial) in India consume an enormous 33 per cent energy.

• COP19/Warsaw

CSE organises unique 'Climate Talkies' poster exhibition in Warsaw alongside CoP19

Only exhibition of its kind during the present CoP. Looks at 20 years of climate change negotiations through a cinematic prism

• Media Resource Centre

CSE director general Sunita Narain discharged from hospital today

Hit-and-run vehicle not yet identified

• Pesticides in soft drinks

Responding to recent Supreme Court order on soft drinks, CSE says the country's food regulatory body should test packaged and processed food, including soft drinks, periodically for pesticides

New Delhi, October 24, 2013: The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in the case of chemical additives in soft drinks is opportune, says Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

• Climate Change

India should not shy away from discussing HFCs under Montreal Protocol, says CSE

 It should take the lead in setting terms and conditions for any agreement on HFCs