Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 16, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
#HelpDelhiBreathe: Citizens' Collective Effort
The odd-even drive initiative may have ended, but Delhi's determination has not. On January 17, citizens came together to raise their voices …
Cooling Earth
Municipalities in the Netherlands are exerting pressure on the national government to reduce carbon dioxide emission by half by AD 2010
The value-addition of a clean-up
The Indian government will soo introduce measures to ease annual environmental statements to keep industry's nose as clean as humanly possible
Clean manufacturing, cleaner environment
Waste abatement measures can go a long way in controlling pollution and increasing efficiency, prove several surveys. Access to right technology …
Purifying the Ganga
"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India's civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru
Same problem, differing approaches
The government is roping in NGOs in the fight against pollution whereas industry is trying cleaner manufacturing processes
Net profits
Virtual shopping can not only cut down the number of cars on the roads, but reduce vehicular emissions as well
Better now than never
Two years after a Supreme Court order, the government sets up the first fuel testing lab in Noida
Rubber-stamp Authority
State environment regulatory bodies formed under the 2006 Environmental Impact Assessment notification have floundered. They have little …
Visible improvement in Delhi’s air quality, long way to go to achieve clean air: EPCA
EPCA’s report card says that the Delhi-NCR region must not lose the momentum in this fight to breathe clean air
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 1, 2020)
Use app to monitor COVID-19 biomedical waste, SC to civic bodies
The CPCB had come up with the app in May, following directions from the National Green Tribunal; it was not mandatory for municipal corporations …
Exposure to pollutants higher than ambient pollution in Delhi’s Anand Vihar: CSE
Delhi-based based Centre for Science and Environment has found that exposure level is three times more than background ambient air pollution …
Sensor-based air quality monitoring instruments left out of new certification scheme
The notification gives CSIR-NPL the authority to certify instruments but fails to address the certification of low-cost instruments
Gujarat launches India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution
Launched on World Environment Day, the programme is a market-based system where the government sets a cap on emissions and allows industries to …
Air pollution may lead to ban on private vehicles in Delhi
The CPCB has already recommended a ban on the movement of trucks and construction activity during the night given the public health emergency due …
Delhi's emergency action plan to tackle air pollution
The Supreme Court recently passed a graded action plan to tackle Delhi's air pollution woes. Down To Earth explains how it works
Air pollution: will the green cess concept work?
The country's apex court has paved the way for registration of diesel vehicles on payment of one-time environmental cess
Kirk Smith on new paradigm of exposure management
Kirk Smith, professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, talks about new paradigm of air pollution exposure …
Sunita Narain spells out the agenda for clean air in Delhi
Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain recommends measures for cleaning Delhi's air to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the International Conclave …
Odd-even experiment with private cars: Delhi CM appeals to people to make it successful
As of now, this experiment has been planned for 15 days and may be implemented again after a few months
Putting the brakes on emissions
To reduce emissions of ozone-depleting substances, a state government in Germany has hauled the reins on motorists rocketing down highways
Exhausting concerns
The automobile industry is worried about a proposed legislation that may soon make it mandatory for manufacturers to fit vehicles with catalytic …
Checking gold fever
Brazil develops a cheap device to increase gold yield and control mercury pollution in the devastated Amazon basin