There is finally some respite for cycle rickshaws from the Delhi High Court. Recently the chief justice bench while hearing a petition on lifting of ban on cycle rickshaws on the main arteries of Delhi asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to submit an action plan for cycle rickshaws in the city.

With a large number of Indian cities embarking on natural gas vehicle programme it is essential that the elements of these programmes are well defined for maximum environmental and public health gains. It is important that the lessons are drawn from the well established programmes in the region to chart the future course.

Early December, the chairman of Tata group, Sri Ratan Tata unveiled a water filter called

Air pollution levels in the erstwhile Manchester of the East, Kanpur is on the rise, says an analysis of recent air quality data by New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment.

Full text of the CSE Press Release available at
http://www.cseindia.org/AboutUs/press_releases/press-20091217.htm

Air pollution levels in the erstwhile Manchester of the East, Kanpur is on the rise, says an analysis of recent air quality data by New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment.

Full text of the CSE Press Release available at
http://www.cseindia.org/AboutUs/press_releases/press-20091217.htm

Efforts to reduce air pollution in Kanpur are in danger of being wasted, as pollution levels are once again creeping up in the city: says a latest analysis of recent air quality data done by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi-based research and advocacy organisation.

A new proposal from AOSIS Alternative to the Danish Proposal and the BASIC draft. The Association of Small Island States (AOSIS) released a new, overarching proposal for fulfilling the mandates of the Bali Action Plan, and setting legally binding targets for developed countries post-2012.

This fact sheet contains major legal cases concerning Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

CSE analysis of the leaked so-called "Danish proposal" to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Says that this would commit countries to very little other than continued negotiations, and would drop most of the key principles of the Kyoto Protocol.

On December 3, 1984, toxic poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL's) pesticide plant in Bhopal. The gas leak triggered a disaster that is now widely