New Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database (update 2016) of the WHO released today shows Delhi has arrested and improved air quality since the last database published in 2014 – a drop of 20 per cent
Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board has directed the brick kiln industry to change technology from natural draft to induced draft within 90 days.
CSE challenges the misleading number game of the industry to underplay vehicular pollution
Takes on motivated and half-baked science
Date: April 19 - 20, 2016 Time: 9:00 - 6:00 pm Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Arvind Kejriwal and Sunita Narain discuss issues relevant to Delhi and its air pollution at a public meeting organised by CSE
Sunita Narain Director General of Centre for Science and Environment talks about the strategies that developing country cities can adopt to clean air pollution in their cities at the International Conclave on the Right to Clean Air organised by Centre for Science and
A joint initiative of Centre for Science and Environment, India and National Environment Management Authority, Kenya Nairobi, March 15, 2016 (9.30 am – 5.00 pm)
But CSE questions the design of the tax sop for affordable housing; no hard money for bus transport; and claims of highest ever allocation to MNREGA
Venue: Conference room, Lytton Hotel, 14 & 14/1, Sudder Street (near Indian Museum), Kolkata Date: January 30, 2016 (Saturday) Time: 9.30 am – 2.00 pm
Venue: Conference room, Lytton Hotel, 14 & 14/1, Sudder Street (near Indian Museum), Kolkata Date: January 30, 2016 (Saturday) Time: 9.30 am – 2.00 pm
Trucks are a major contributor to air pollution and fuel guzzling with serious public health and climate change consequences. Rapid growth in the economy and trade is continuously expanding roadbased freight traffic, bringing more and more trucks on roads.
Despite the misgivings regarding use of low-taxed diesel in the luxury segment, as many as 27 per cent of all displayed car/SUV models in Auto Expo were in the bracket of 2000 cc engines diesel that is banned in the NCR
CSE says car companies cannot be allowed to hide behind such misleading claims when the technology in India is lagging and there are raging concerns around toxic diesel emissions even in advanced markets today. No car company can get away by making such remarks in any other country
In 2016, Delhi experienced one of its worst Diwali smog episodes in manyyears. Several factors converged to create the dirty haze that enveloped the capital region with the onset of winter.
Kolkata is in the grip of rising air pollution and multi-pollutant crisis. Official ambient air quality monitoring has shown 61 per cent increase in particulate matter in just four years (2010 to 2013). The levels exceed standards by 2.7 times. NO2 levels exceed by close to two times