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MSRDC goes green, will roll out 250 CNG buses
Roana Maria Costa I TNN

The Ministry of Environment has set itself a challenging task of introducing Euro-II emission standards for petrol driven vehicles from July this year and for diesel driven automobiles from July 2012.

Minor metal lithium is set to charge ahead to become the top material for batteries and vital for electric transport, but supplying any spike in demand could be fraught with difficulties.

Bolivia, a poor but resource-rich country governed for the past three years by leftist Evo Morales, has about 50 percent of the world's lithium deposits at about 5.4 million tonnes.

A US-French joint venture plans to build North America's first lithium-ion battery cell plant as part of a belated drive by the US public and private sectors to close the competitive gap with Asian electric-car technology.

By Humphery Hawksley, BBC News
The project tracked the change of air quality in 51 American cities since the 1980s.

It has taken a quarter of a century, but US researchers say their work has finally enabled them to determine to what extent city air pollution impacts on average life expectancy.

The project tracked the change of air quality in 51 American cities since the 1980s.

The Ministry of Environment has set itself a challenging task of introducing Euro-II emission standards for petrol driven vehicles from July this year and for diesel driven automobiles from July 2012.

Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (Punjab-EPA) has served notices on the owners of 10 brick kilns located in the environs of New Islamabad International Airport, Fateh Jang, and 15 stone crush machines installed on the periphery of Khanpur Dam for causing serious environmental pollution.

The risk for rheumatoid arthritis is not large

Japan's latest burst of economic stimulus spending is aimed at promoting energy-efficient products made by recession-hit exporters, but analysts say it is unlikely to help the world's fifth-biggest polluter cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Danny Goodman & Surajeet Das Gupta / New Delhi April 13, 2009, 0:51 IST

Maruti Suzuki, India

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