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bul_red.gif (868 bytes) June 23, 2005
Neurotoxic petrol additive MMT: Finally banished more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) April. 01, 2005
Do not make Indians guinea pigs to test MMT: the deadly fuel more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) October 01, 2004
Lax state govts derail implementation of upgraded vehicle pollution control norms more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) July 28, 2004
Environment cess on diesel cars, hike in diesel sales tax a giant step towards clean air in Delhi   more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) July 22, 2004
Environment cess on diesel cars, hike in diesel sales tax a giant step towards clean air in Delhi: CSE more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) June. 25, 2004
Citizens’ missive to Delhi’s chief minister on the govt. backtracking from decision to increase sales tax on diesel more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) March 30, 2004
Need for a technological leapfrog in Asia for clean air more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) March 29, 2004
LEAPFROG FACTOR: International conference on vehicular pollution management in Asian cities more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Jan. 23, 2004
Following CSE's statement of concern, Supreme Court demands strategy from Delhi Govt. to tackle vehicular congestion more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date 22nd Jan. 2004
PEDDLING DEVIL'S CAR more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date 24th Nov. 2003
SUPREME COURT TAKES NOTE OF CSE REPORT ON FUEL ADULTERATION more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date 13th Nov. 2003
THE DEADLY CRIME & SCIENCE OF FUEL ADULTERATION IN INDIA more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date 06th Oct. 2003
CSE REJECTS NATIONAL AUTO FUEL POLICY more...
Says it is too little, too late
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date 24th Nov. 2003
SUPREME COURT TAKES NOTE OF CSE REPORT ON FUEL ADULTERATION more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date 13th Nov. 2003
THE DEADLY CRIME & SCIENCE OF FUEL ADULTERATION IN INDIA more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 05th Sept 2003: NEW DELHI
PUC CHARADE: DIESEL POLLUTERS EXCUSED FROM REVISED NORMS
But CSE welcomes the decision that will allow state governments to set even tighter emissions control standards more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 08th April 2003: NEW DELHI
Open letter to B C Khanduri, Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 17th JAN 2003: NEW DELHI
California Air Resources Board: A rare example of good governance more...
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:     4th OCT 2002:
The Delhi government has been testing vehicle emissions for over ten years now. But there are serious flaws in the current PUC programme, as has been noted by two international experts who were in the capital, on invitation from CSE, recently. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:     16th July, 2002
A CSE study shows that the Supreme Court ruling on trucks and goods vehicles will make a dramatic impact on particulate pollution levels in the Capital. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:     6th June, 2002
CSE invites international experts to assess CNG safety issues and concern and chart out a road map for effective enforcement of safety standards and inspection system more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:     29th April, 2002
The minister of petroleum and natural gas, Mr Ram Naik, first attempts to scuttle peoples' right to clean air by denying supply of compressed natural gas (CNG) to private vehicles. His next move is to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling by passing an Ordinance. Both efforts fall on their faces. Now his final salvo is to demolish CNG's price advantage over diesel - nothing less than a short fuse to catastrophe as it translates into dirty air and increasing health costs for people. Delhi's destiny stands destroyed. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:    19th April, 2002
Centre for Science and Environment condemns repeated threat from IGL to increase prices of CNG, which is inciting Delhi government to hike bus fares and destroy consumer interest in the CNG strategy. At a time when the Congress led state government in Delhi has shown interest in implementing the CNG order and has even rolled back the proposed sales tax hike, it is grossly unfair on part of the NDA led Central government to continue to push IGL to jack up CNG prices. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:    17th April, 2002
: It has just come to the notice of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) that an email message is in wide circulation from a portal called dhamakapataka@morningindia.com maligning CSE and misrepresenting the facts of its campaign on CNG. It is a dangerous misinformation campaign. Since this message seems to have a wide outreach, we are keen to set the picture right. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:    10th April, 2002
Pollution levels plummet as diesel buses go off roads
  • There is a dramatic decline in pollution levels on the fifth day of the bus strike.
  • According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) level nosedived from 189 microgramme per cum yesterday to 148 microgramme per cum today. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:    8th April, 2002
Do not let a handful of bus operators hold the city to ransom and compromise the health of millions in this city. It is time to implement the Court order and not divert attention by whipping up public ire for misguided political gains more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:      6th April, 2002
Centre for Science and Environment welcomes the recent Supreme Court ruling from the three-judge bench headed by Justice BN Kirpal as momentous and innovative. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:      12th March, 2002
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) recently undertook an independent inspection of fuel adulteration in the National Capital Territory of Delhi and National Capital Region following a mandate from the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) under the Supreme Court order of November 22, 2002. This report was released by CSE in a press conference held in the Capital today. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:      1st March,  2002
Who are you fooling?
Sinha's fraudulent concern for public health and the environment stand exposed as he goes on to deliberately undermine the Supreme Court's attempts to clean up Delhi's air. Just as his concern for lack of rural employment fails to go beyond the usual dose of words and meaningless sops more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:        28th Feb  2002
CSE's comments on the Union budget.
ATTENTION:
Mr Finance Minister, you have once again shown how committed you are to carry on with the slow murder of millions. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:       8th Jan  2002
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) rejects the interim report of the Mashelkar committee on auto fuel policy saying it is weak and visionless. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:       22nd Nov 2001
Dear Chief Minister, daring to go behind bars by defying CNG orders won't help. The issue is not that of CNG but air pollution and people dying from it in Delhi. If you do not want to take responsibility then resign. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:      15th Nov  2001
Ram Naik, Union minister for petroleum and natural gas, is stooping to hit where it hurts most. Deny gas to owners of private CNG cars by raising the bogey of `no gas’ and threat them with price hike to shaken consumer confidence in the CNG market. He is of course silent on whether he is also depriving and penalising the industry claimants. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:      12th Oct  2001
Centre for Science and Environment is incensed at the recent announcement from the Delhi transport minister Parvez Hashmi that the new CNG bus operators would not be allowed to ply as state carriage buses but only on a limited scale as contract carriage buses. The banality of official argument is astounding. Hashmi has not been able to figure out how to dole out route permits to the new breed of bus operators who have purchased new CNG buses. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:     11th Oct  2001
Centre for Science and Environment is shocked at the recent incidents of bus fires - consecutively four episodes within a short span of three months, and the silent government. Obsessed only with the desire to discredit CNG technology the official agencies forgot to do their own bit.Except for the standard promise of setting up yet another committee to investigate the matter, they have no plans to enforce safety compliance standards and establish accountability. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:     28th Aug 2001
Centre for Science and Environment denounces BJP national vice president Madan Lal Khurana, for trying to cover up for the dismal track record and incompetence of his party, ruling at the Centre, in implementing the Supreme Court’s order on CNG. He is misleading both transporters and public alike by demanding status quo. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:     22nd Aug 2001
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has criticised the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for its proposed amendments to the existing emissions norms for CNG and LPG vehicles. These are inadequate to address the flaws in the current regulations and still do not recognise that cleaner fuels like CNG can meet much tighter standards which can also ensure better quality control in conversion and manufacturing of buses to make the vehicles safer. Worse, a safety inspection system for CNG vehicles is still not in place. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:     20th Aug 2001

Dear Mr State Finance Minister, it is time for your lessons in pollution tax. Nowhere in the world environmentally cleaner products are taxed high to put them at a disadvantage vis a vis the polluting ones. more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:    11th Aug 2001
Due to the obstructionist stance taken by the Union ministry for petroleum and natural gas, Indraprastha Gas Ltd has failed miserably to meet the target of setting up all the 80 CNG stations mandated by the Supreme Court, and has also slipped up in meeting its commitment to convert all the daughter stations to `daughter-booster' stations by August, 2001, to maintain uniform pressure to lower the filling time. The long queues in the Capital are a testimony to this. And unless the Ministry pulls up its socks they could last a long time. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:   9th Aug 2001
Just as the deadline for converting all public passenger transport to CNG by September 30, 2001, is coming closer, for once everyone else is turning around to implement the Supreme Court order, but the Union minister for petroleum and natural gas, Ram Naik, in charge of gas supply in the country, is not interested in dealing with long queues for CNG by augmenting its supply. more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:  31st March, 2001

Former Finance Minister and Member of Parliament, Dr Manmohan Singh presented the Down To Earth Green Scientist Award 2001 to Mr VINOD PRAKASH SHARMA, consultant with the World Health Organisation and former head of the Malaria Research Centre, here today. more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date:  30th March, 2001

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said today that talk about low sulphur diesel is an effort to sabotage Supreme Court orders on compressed natural gas (CNG).This is a clear effort to create confusion and to delay implementation of the order, says CSE director Sunita Narain. What is appalling is the half- baked research and misinformation being thrown around by the so-called reputed research organisation, Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) to support their claim, she added. more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 26th March, 2001

Centre for Science and Environment welcomes the Supreme Court verdict that extension of the deadline for conversion of buses to CNG should come with personal accountability of the Delhi government. The Principle Secretary Transport Department of Delhi, Ashok Pradhan will be personally responsible for the implementation of the Court order by September 30, 2001. more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 12th Jan 2001

Centre for Science and Environment is deeply disturbed by what now seems to be an organised whisper campaign raging in the capital to scare people about CNG. "CNG causes cancer" is the buzz-word whenever you decide to probe while riding a CNG auto. This will have to be culled outright as this is the most significant step taken so far to control killer particles in the city. The Delhi government must immediately issue public notices denying these rumours and inform people about the environmental and health benefits of CNG. more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 14th Dec 2000

Mr. Transport Minister if you think that just by telling the Court that CNG technology is `unproven’ you can save diesel business and public money and still enjoy public support then think again. If you want to squander public money to promote diesel buses then you will be responsible for at least an extra one death per day in Delhi due to particulate pollution over the next 10 years. more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 5th Dec 2000

Centre for Science and Environment condemns the automobile industry for not taking the responsibility for the emission performance of the vehicles on road for the duration of their useful life. Knowing very well that even the new vehicles are failing the on-road emission tests, the industry conveniently turns a nelson eye towards the problem of manufacturing defects in vehicles causing high emissions on road.  more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 6th Nov 2000

31 paise extra is mere pittance to pay against Rs 2-3 lakhs that is spent on an average on cancer treatment per person in Delhi. Benzene is one of the most lethal carcinogens in Delhi’s air and according to the WHO there is no safe level for benzene.  more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 22nd Sept 2000

After debating over two years on a suitable action plan to curb Delhi’s air pollution all that the Delhi government plans to do is train its gun on old two- wheelers to help automobile industry make more money. If the government cannot take composite and proactive steps, let it abdicate its authority to the judiciary once and for all in the matters of pollution control. more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 10th Aug 2000
CSE accuses DTC of fooling people about having chanced upon a technique of reducing particulate emissions from diesel buses substantially that may render moving to CNG unnecessary. DTC is bent upon diverting public attention from CNG by initiating a pilot project on diesel buses instead of focussing on the implementation of the Supreme Court order on CNG just 8 months before the deadline expires.  more>>
bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 9th August, 2000

CSE demands that the use of MTBE be banned in India as an additive to petrol. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has strongly protested to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) about the proposal to add Methyl Tertiery Butyl Ether as an oxygenate to petrol to reduce carbon monoxide emissions. more>>

bul_red.gif (868 bytes) Date: 18th July, 2000
The Centre for Science and Environment accuses the Delhi government of trying to sabotage Supreme Court orders to move diesel buses to CNG to reduce the high levels of particulate pollution in Delhi which kills more than 10,000 people every year in Delhi. The Delhi government, influenced by the diesel lobby, is citing selective literature from USA to argue that moving to CNG is difficult.     more>>


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