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Date: 13th
April, 2000 |
After the
Delhi government’s disastrous efforts at meeting the July 1998 Supreme Court
directive, it wants to wriggle out of its own mess by trying to get diesel with 0.05 per
cent sulphur content accepted as clean fuel. Any such dilution of the Court order on clean
fuel would defeat the purpose of reducing risk to public health. more>> |
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Date: 12th
April, 2000 |
Centre
for Science and Environment condemns the new schedule proposed by the automobile industry
to phase in tighter emission norms for vehicles in the next ten years. What has been
ostensibly presented as a "proactive" agenda by the Society of Indian Automobile
Manufacturers (SIAM), essentially seems like an attempt to preclude the possibility of
getting caught unawares by Court rulings slapping tight deadlines on them. more>> |
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Date: 31st March,
2000 |
"Shut
your shop, we cannot put the citizens at risk" tells the Supreme Court to DTC as they
fail to meet the deadline to convert all buses over 8-years old to CNG. The Chief Justice
bench in the Supreme Court rejects Delhi Transport Corporation’s plea for extension
of the deadline to convert 8 year old buses to CNG by March 31, 2000. more>> |
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Date: 3rd
February, 2000 |
Global
warming vs urban smog: The Centre for Science and Environment is shocked by the
`expert’ views reported in the media that question the move to replace diesel with
CNG, in the name of global warming. This is an attempt to divert attention from the more
immediate problem of particulate pollution, which kills 1 person per hour in Delhi.
more>> |
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Date: 13th
January, 2000 |
“We
shall overcome” claims Delhi CM. Addressing visitors to the CSE exhibition on air
pollution at the Auto Expo at Pragati Maidan, Delhi’s chief minister expressed
optimism that the problem would be solved more>> |
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Date: 12th
October, 1999 |
Centre
for Science and Environment lauds Delhi government’s decision to ban registration of
diesel taxis in the capital from January 2000 to control toxic particulate pollution in
the capital. more>> |
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Date: 4th October,
1999 |
Challenges
in Air Pollution Management and the Role of WHO Public Lecture by Dr Dietrich Schwela
(WHO, Geneva) more>> |
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Date: 9th
September, 1999 |
"If
small particulaau4_090999.htmte pollution level in California ever reached the same levels
as in Delhi today, Californian environmental authorities would have declared
emergency" informed Dr Shankar Prasad, the community health adviser, California Air
Resources Board, while noting the alarming particulate levels in Delhi in a public lecture
organised by the Centre for Science and Environment in the capital today.
more>> |
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Date: 3rd
September, 1999 |
| IOCs move to supply 0.05 per
cent sulphur much before the deadline in Delhi comes as a slap in the face of the ministry
of petroleum and natural gas which has obstinately maintained that it would not be
possible to lower sulphur content in diesel any further in the near future. Market forces
have finally pushed the oil industry to meet the demand for cleaner fuel. more>> |
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Date: 3rd July,
1999 |
Merchants
of menace: Our health is at the mercy of transnational carmakers (TNCs).
And the Merchants of Menace—the top brass in these companies—don’t give a
damn. Well aware that tiny particles from diesel exhausts kill thousands in Indian cities,
TNCs—from Toyota and Ford to Mercedes—are bent upon introducing diesel cars that
will add to the death count more>> |
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