• Media Resource Centre

J&K floods a grim reminder of increasing climate change impact in India: CSE

Climate models predict that India will be hit more and more by extreme rainfall events

• Food and Toxins

CSE dispels recent myths perpetuated by Indian poultry industry on use of antibiotics in chicken

Reveals that poultry industry is misleading the public by saying that residues found in Indian chicken are lower than the EU standards. 

• Food and Toxins

CSE's recommendations to control antibiotic use in poultry industry gets support from the medical fraternity

The food authority also begins to act

• Climate Change

As Paris meeting on Montreal Protocol draws to a close today, deadlock on HFCs continues

Date:  July 18, 2014

• Renewable Energy

Mini-grids can be a solution to the dire energy access problem in Bihar

• New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) discussed the role mini-grid has to play to eradicate energy poverty in the country, at a  workshop on ‘“Sustainable Mini-Grid for Energy Access” in Patna

• Renewable Energy

Distributed generation or mini-grids are the solution to India's power woes in the rural sector, says CSE

New Delhi-based think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) discussed the role mini-grids have to play to eradicate energy poverty in the country and proposed a model to ensure at least 12 hours of electricity to every household per day at a workshop on “Sustainable Mini-Grid for Energy Access” in Delhi

• Renewable Energy

Mini-grids can be a viable source of power for India's energy poor

New Delhi based think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) discussed the role mini-grids have to play to eradicate energy poverty in the country and proposed a model to ensure at least 12 hours of electricity to every household per day at a workshop on “Sustainable Mini-Grid for Energy Access” in Pune

• 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

• Rural RWH

State level workshop on 'Mainstreaming Rainwater Harvesting' at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Rajya Gramya Vikas Sansthan (SIRDUP), Bakshi Ka Talab, Lucknow

• 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

• Water Management

Regional Workshop on "Energy and Resource Efficiency in Urban Water Management" in Guwahati, Assam on February 28, 2013

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• 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