Clean up or close down
Threatened with closure on grounds of pollution, Palam Potteries adopted a waste minimisation method that brought down its smoke emissions and …
Car manufacturers spurring battery research
The flywheel is one of the options US car makers have in the search for better batteries to run electric cars that will meet future emission …
Prodigal sons
Industry is wasting the environment. But the courts and the civil society will have none of it
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Instant quality check of rivers
Electronic sensors to monitor pollutants in Yamuna, Ganga
Lower the din
IIM-Lucknow analyzes pollution board
Manpower shortage, lack of coordination are main problems
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 17, 2020)
Delhi loses air pollution control race to Beijing: Centre for Science and Environment
Delhi faces the same challenge of cleaning up its air as Beijing, but lacks aggression and stringency of action needed to protect public health
Simply Put: Growing up in North India
Chhattisgarh green board to make access to emissions data more user-friendly
Last year, CSE had found that only 19 of 35 pollution control boards were displaying emissions data in the public domain
Gaurav Gogoi to table bill for changing air pollution law
Congress MP said updating 1981 legislation concerning air pollution was need of the hour
Officials unmoved by court order
ONGCignores green rules
Oil company did not restore abandoned well sites in Tripura
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 30, 2020)
Diwali this year caused more air pollution, but made less noise
Particulate matter exceeded standard almost ten times; NO2 and S02 levels also registered increase
Brick kilns shifting to cleaner technology, but progress is slow
An order by the Central Pollution Control Board in June asked brick kilns across India to shift to a cleaner and more efficient “induced …
The man who upheld our right to breathe time and again
Outgoing Chief Justice T S Thakur’s statements show his concern over the deteriorating air quality in the national capital
Punjab extends time for brick kiln conversion to September
Those operating kilns with older technology still have to pay a fine depending upon the capacity of kiln under the polluter pay principle
74% brick kilns in Delhi-NCR have not shifted to cleaner technology
Two-thirds of brick kilns in Delhi-NCR are unlikely to meet the deadline to upgrade to a cleaner firing technology
Implementation of this efficient pollution monitoring system caught in delays
Continuous Emission Monitoring System is a set of equipment that monitors and sends emission data to pollution control agencies every 15 minutes
How date palm seeds can remove toxins from the environment
Date seed oil could clean up polluted water and war-ravaged sites
Air pollution reduces life expectancy more than war, diseases: Study
Global air pollution shortened life expectancy by an average of three years
Greener and tougher
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