Air Pollution

Smog Digest: January - February 2011

Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries. The months witnessed lots of action and developments on the vehicular pollution front in India.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Air Pollution, India, Health Effects, Vehicle Technology, Alternative Fuels, Biofuel, Vehicles, Transport, South Asia, Air Quality and Health
Energy

Ethanol shortage will not hit petrol doping

Gireesh Chandra Prasad
Sugar producers have contested the government

Publication Date: 
14/12/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ethanol, Alternative Fuels, Petrol
Energy

Use bio-fuels for better future: Scholar

Development should take place but keeping environment factor in mind, said Indian Institute of Science Professor Mohan Kumar inaugurating the seminar on

Publication Date: 
03/12/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Biofuel, Alternative Fuels, Waste To Energy, Biodegradable Waste, Karnataka, Indian Institute Of Science (IISC)
Energy

Ethanol shortage could scale down blending plan

Gireesh Chandra Prasad

The government may have to scale down its ambitious programme of doping petrol as availability of ethanol is far short of demand. Besides, another powerful user industry for ethanol

Publication Date: 
02/12/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ethanol, Alternative Fuels, Petrol
Air Pollution

BESTs biodiesel experiment fails due to fuel unavailability

The green experiment on the city

Publication Date: 
02/12/2010
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Public Transport, Biodiesel, Fuel Efficiency, Buses, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Alternative Fuels, Air Pollution
Energy

Ethanol has a special appeal for India

Kunal Bose / November 30, 2010, 0:05 IST

The other day the director general of Indian Sugar Mills Association Abinash Verma made an impassioned plea for the central government to announce the final price of ethanol to be procured by oil marketing companies (OMCs) for blending with petrol.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ethanol, Sugar Industry, Alternative Fuels
Energy

Make way for ethanol

In his news story "Is there a road ahead for cellulosic ethanol?" (Special section on Scaling up Alternative Energy, 13 August, p. 784), R. F. Service identifies factors contributing to fading enthusiasm for cellulosic ethanol and observes that policy-makers' decisions this year could shape the nascent U.S. biofuels industry for decades. It is critical at this time to distinguish the fundamental from the ephemeral and to base policy on the former rather than the latter. (Letters)

Publication Date: 
26/11/2010
Lee R. Lynd, Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
Science
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Tags:
Ethanol, Alternative Fuels, United States Of America (US), Biofuel, Land Use, Brazil
Energy

Biofuel potential in coastal districts will be tapped

Sardine oil, cashew apples, jackfruit are good source of bio-ethanol

Publication Date: 
16/11/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Biofuel, Alternative Fuels, Energy, Mangalore, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Waste To Energy
Climate Change

Climate game lets you decide Earths fate

London: Ever wondered how one person could save the planet from the effects of climate change?

Publication Date: 
02/11/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Green House Gases, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Alternative Fuels, London
Air Pollution

Study of the exhaust gases from different fuel based vehicles for carbonyls and methane emissions

Air Pollution is caused by a number of pollutants emanated from various sources. Under sound air pollution control strategy the detailed analysis and assessment of all the pollutants having detrimental effects on human health and environment is required.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2010
CPCB
Tags:
Fuel Cell Vehicles, Air Pollution, Health Effects, India, Two Wheelers, Three Wheelers, Light Duty Vehicle, Heavy Duty Vehicle, Vehicle Technology, CNG, Alternative Fuels

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