Dirty fuel
CSE's Clean Air campaigners ANUMITA ROYCHOWDHURY and CHIRAG SHAH expose the dirty, intelligent and systematic business of fuel adulteration:…
Secretive tribunals, hidden damages
Canadian academic Gus Van Harten is well known for his efforts to reform the global investment treaty regime through his research papers, …
India’s many investment treaties make it vulnerable
Senior international lawyer Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, who heads the investment programme of the International Institute on Sustainable …
Burn water!
A college dropout from a south Indian village, has produced a form of crude, low-sulphur 'petroleum' by mixing water and some herbs, shown that …
Spreading the fire
The mandarins of the Indian science establishment have begun pushing the process of making the 'wonder-fuel' from water and herbs to its logical …
Row over ruling
A WTO ruling raps the US for its unfair trade practices and the failure to stick to environmental rules on clean fuel standard
Playing dirty
There is an urgent need for a post APM fuel policy if we want to address environmental concerns
No lead in Lanka
Sri Lanka is set to curb atmospheric lead pollution by introducing lead-free petrol for its cars
India's 20% ethanol-petrol blending target advanced to 2025
Currently, 8.5% of ethanol is blended with petrol in India
Cashing in on green consumers
Britain and USA have followed hard on the heels of the German eco-angel, but, unfortunately, most such schemes continue to remain "green froth".
One step back
Under pressure from the industry, the Australian government relaxes petrol and diesel emission standards
Clean call
Let the Bhure Lal Committee decide on what qualifies to be a clean fuel, says the Supreme Court
NaMo budget on transport and pollution: Green expectations - Dashed hopes
NDAÔÇÖs maiden budget upholds and supports UPAII blunders to protect the automobile industry while ignoring the perils of …
India researchers make petrol from plastic
The Indian Institute of Petroleum has developed a technology that uses a combination of catalysts to produce high-quality diesel and petrol
Can Nigeria kill the fuel subsidy?
With nearly 5,000% increase in expenditure on petrol import subsidy, IMF and World Bank call for funds for education and health sectors
UK paid £43 billion in green taxes in 2013
The figure was the highest ever for the country, with the majority of the environmental taxes paid by the commercial sector
Lead the way out
Many cities of the world reel under severe lead pollution as they continue using heavily leaded petrol. The case for the phasing-out of lead is …
Russia-Ukraine war to have ‘ripple effects’ on India’s fuel prices: Experts
India should take this as a market signal and channel investments into electric vehicles and green hydrogen, which are substitutes for oil and gas,…
Why electric is better
A comparative study between an internal combustion engine and an electric powertrain shows why electric vehicles are the future
Vehicular fumes escalate deaths and illness: New global study
Diesel vehicles responsible for nearly half the world's premature deaths. Delhi ranks sixth
Bharat Stage VI: India leapfrogs today and it is no Fool’s day
Despite the pall of gloom around COVID-19, there is reason to cheer that India has become the only country to leapfrog directly to Bharat Stage …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 22, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
PM at India Energy Week launch: Ethanol blending allowed up to 20% in petrol
Domestically produced ethanol has been identified as an opportunity to reduce oil imports, in an effort to achieve energy independence
Whose responsibility is it anyway?
Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 15, 2023)