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Air Pollution

 The dumber number game

I met an eminent economist last week. He quoted another eminent economist cum columnist, and asked me if it was true that apples had higher pesticide residues than Coke or Pepsi. Before I could

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14/11/2003
Sunita Narain
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Pesticides, Food Contamination, Soft Drinks, Health Effects, Pesticide Residues, Toxicology, Legislation
Air Pollution

 2001 onwards

A systematically careless government

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Air Pollution, Fuel Quality, Diesel, Petrol, Fuel Adulteration, Kerosene, Transport, Auto Industry, Petrochemical Industry, Auto Technology, Supreme Court, Delhi, Haryana, Statistics
Air Pollution

 Root cause

Adulteration is an effect of warped pricing

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Air Pollution

 New Hampshire battles against oil giants

New Hampshire has become the first state in the US to take on oil giants such as ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco over widespread contamination of its surface water and groundwater due to gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether MTBE . The state has sue

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14/11/2003
Vivek Chattopadhyay
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Oil Pollution, Air Pollution, Drinking Water, MTBE, Legislation, United States Of America (US), India
Air Pollution

 Bytes

gm on the platter: The US government has recently issued a notice to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for failing to comply with safety laws when it allowed offsprings of animals used

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Air Pollution, Pesticides, Pest Control, Asthma, Cancer, Children, Child Health, Occupational Health, Electronics Industry, Genetic Engineering, Research, Media, Legislation, Iran, United States Of America (US), California
Air Pollution

 Dirty fuel

CSE s Clean Air campaigners ANUMITA ROYCHOWDHURY and CHIRAG SHAH expose the dirty, intelligent and systematic business of fuel adulteration:

The problem: Oil companies refuse to take ultimate responsibility for the quality of the fuel the

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Water Pollution

 In Short

unearthed: Thought to be extinct, the lizard Barkudia insularis has been sighted in Orissa's Chilika lagoon after more than 85 years. Ajit Kumar Patnaik, chief executive officer of the Chilika

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Pollution Control, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Chilka, Drinking Water, Nuclear Power, Fast Breeders, Reptiles, Technology, India, Orissa (Odisha), Tamil Nadu, Extinct Species
Air Pollution

Interim progress report on particulate pollution control strategy in critically polluted cities

In response to the direction issued by the Hon

Publication Date: 
01/11/2003
Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority
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Vehicular Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Urban Air Quality, SPM, Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), Thermal Power Plants, India, Hyderabad (T), Ahmedabad (T), Faridabad (T), Bangalore (T), Chennai (T), Kanpur (T), Lucknow (T), Air Quality and Health
Air Pollution

 Irrigation Management

A traditional water manager's prime duty is equitable water distribution and resolution of disputes. Their decisions are binding

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30/10/2003
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Air Pollution

 Yielding to pressure

Going against the grain of a September 9 federal appeals court directive, Brazil has allowed farmers to grow genetically modified (gm) soya bean this year. In the process, the country has temporarily

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30/10/2003
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Soyabean, GM Crops, Genetic Engineering, Government Of India (GOI), Brazil

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