Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has countered claims that PM 2.5 (fine, respirable particles) pollution in Delhi is higher than in Beijing.

New Delhi: Residents of Sukhdev Vihar and other parts of Okhla met the environment minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, requesting him to shut down the controversial Okhla waste to energy plant that has alle

NewDelhi: Delhi’s air quality is indeed very poor but not as poor as Beijing’s, claim scientists.

Delhi government’s environment department has reservations about the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) draft regional plan 2021.

Fog Hours Have More Than Doubled

New Delhi: Days are becoming colder in the month of January in the capital in recent decades and pollution could be playing a role in forcing the trend, warn experts. In terms of day temperatures, January this year is in line to be the coldest in a decade and third coldest since 1947. It will also be the fifth consecutive year when Delhi’s average maximum temperature in January has remained below the normal of 20.8 degrees Celsius.

NEW DELHI: The Green Chemistry Network Centre (GCNC) of Delhi University has claimed to have developed a solution for chromium pollution from tanneries.

Bad Enough To Harm The Weak As Well As Healthy People

New Delhi: Over January 14-16, air pollution levels in Delhi reached a level that’s linked to “emergency conditions” for health. Air quality in Delhi reached a “critical” level—i.e. on January 14, 15 and 16 the air was extremely polluted at almost all locations monitored by System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research run by the ministry of earth sciences. “Critical” air quality impacts everyone, not just the vulnerable.

An immediate, uniform implementation of Bharat Stage (BS) IV norms and of BS V norms by 2020 across the country can improve air quality and health of city dwellers, a recent The Energy and Resource

Delhi Pollution Control Committee has issued a show cause notice to the Okhla waste-to-energy plant for violating the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act.

Critics have called CM Arvind Kejriwal’s power subsidy “populist” and “economically unsound”. But there may be some good in what seems like his government’s hurried announcements.