Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 7, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
CNG bus market
If it is laid down that diesel is a bad fuel on environmental grounds, TELCO's interests in the diesel car market would suffer. Hence it is …
Deadlines to break
The September 30 deadline to convert all buses to CNG is likely to be botched up if the Delhi government is not quick on its feet
Environment to the defence
Ironically, Indian scooter manufacturers keep the Chinese at bay using strict emission norms. With WTO rules in place, domestic emission norms …
Freewheel
Who wants to buy a scooter that's priced as high as a limousine? The auto industry can choose to make costly changes to the conventional …
Gassing around
The bogey of price hike and non-availability of gas might delay action to implement the court order on CNG conversion
Playing dirty
There is an urgent need for a post APM fuel policy if we want to address environmental concerns
Sabotage
The inside story of how the Union government, experts and automakers have conspired to compromise Delhi's public health and to sabotage the …
Driven by the market
There is more to profit from alternative fuel technologies than meeting emission norms with conventional fuels. But is the industry listening?
CNG Verdict: A Legal Debate
No matter how one looks at the Supreme Court's April 5 ruling on air pollution in Delhi, it is undoubtedly a milestone in Indian judicial history.…
Directive dumps diesel
As Mumbai High Court delivers its final verdict, CNG is set to replace diesel in taxis and three-wheelers plying in the city
Clean call
Let the Bhure Lal Committee decide on what qualifies to be a clean fuel, says the Supreme Court
The Sherlock principle
When there is only one option left, it is the right answer: this was the Supreme Court's logic in the CNG order
Little chance of Kolkata getting CNG soon; land acquisition hiccups halt supply
The land acquisition process for the pipeline in West Bengal is slow, says GAIL, the Union government’s nodal agency for supplying CNG
Why shouldn't we tax CNG?
The Union revenue secretary, S Narayan , has no clue as to how fiscal instruments are designed to balance revenue priorities and secure a clean …
Contemptuous moves
Do Arundhati Roy and M L Khurana understand what they are doing by undermining yet another institution of our democracy?
Making polluters pay
Proposal to tax polluting vehicles in Andhra Pradesh even as petroleum ministry refuses it natural gas
Just passed!
The Indian automobile industry gets a rude shock: its pedestrian performance makes winners look like losers
Yet another pretense
CNG technology is not proven, says the Delhi government to avoid implementing the Supreme Court order
Budget 2015: Suresh Prabhu promises green, clean Indian Railways
With measures to boost solar power generation and water conservation, budget has been termed “futuristic and technology-driven”
Time To Introspect
Policymakers must put public health above everything else to chart the future. Consumers must demand change so that industry can be forced to …
"We have to reduce the exposure of people to diesel exhaust"
Daniel Greenbaum , president and the chief executive officer of the US-based Health Effects Institute, has done pioneering work on the health …
EPCA has recommended ban on diesel vehicles in Delhi: environment minister tells Parliament
Benefits of CNG transition are not visible due to growth in diesel vehicles, says recent report by Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) …
At full throttle
A voluntary effort to promote alternative fuel vehicles in the US goes into overdriveby Chandrachur Ghose
Dead end for diesel buses
Polluting public transport vehicles sent packing as apex court refuses to extend green makeover deadline