CSE

Toxic trucks: Need urgent action before winter

Toxic trucks: Need urgent action before winter - presentation by Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi on October 6, 2015.

Author(s): Centre for Science and Environment

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Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Delhi, Heavy Duty Vehicle, CSE, Bharat Stage IV

Air Pollution

New CSE survey and study debunks official numbers of trucks entering Delhi

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released its new report and survey on truck entry into Delhi that adds enormous pollution to Delhi’s air. This challenges the data reported by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

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Air Pollution, Delhi, Heavy Duty Vehicle, CSE, Bharat Stage IV, Vehicular Pollution

Air Pollution

EPCA report on strategies to reduce air pollution from trucks entering and leaving Delhi

The Hon’ble Supreme Court has been concerned about the pollution of trucks entering and leaving Delhi for the past decade. In its order of December 6, 2001, the Hon’bleSupreme Court had banned entry of non-destined commercial transit traffic effective from January 15, 2002.

Publication Date:

01/10/2015

Source: Environment Pollution(Prevention and Control) Authority for NCR (EPCA)

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Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Delhi, Heavy Duty Vehicle, Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), CSE

Air Pollution

Revealed: How successive Delhi governments IGNORED funds meant to curb pollution, as Capital's air became the dirtiest in the world

Successive Delhi governments have not been serious about improving the notoriously bad quality of air that people breathe in the national capital.

Publication Date:

29/06/2015

Source: Daily Mail (United Kingdom)

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Air Pollution, Delhi, CSE, RSPM (PM 10), Air Act 1981, Vehicular Pollution, Public Transport, Diesel, WHO, Congestion

Air Pollution

Child health fears at the most polluted spot in the world's most polluted city

Delhi’s appalling pollution has prompted fears that millions of youngsters will suffer serious health problems later in life

Publication Date:

25/06/2015

Source: Guardian (UK)

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Air Pollution, Health Effects, Delhi, Child Health, India, CSE, Meerut (D), WHO, Respiratory Diseases

Health

Nestle Noodle Crisis Shows Long Road for India’s Food Safety

VK Pandey’s team in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, randomly picked about a dozen packs of Nestle’s Maggi instant noodles for a series of tests.

Publication Date:

09/06/2015

Source: Washington Post

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Food Safety, Food Contamination, CSE, Lead, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal, Singapore, Health Effects

Air Pollution

Capital faces health risks from 'very high' ozone levels... and once again cars are to blame

The sudden boom in diesel cars and trucks in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) has escalated the level of ozone gas in the air.

Publication Date:

01/06/2015

Source: Daily Mail (United Kingdom)

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Air Pollution, Delhi, CSE, Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide, Air Quality Monitoring, Health Effects, India, PM 2.5

Air Pollution

Capital chokes as diesel debate goes on: Government wary of banning polluting vehicles despite NGT's order

The Capital continues to choke even six months after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered a ban on all petrol and diesel vehicles over 15 years of age in Delhi-NCR.

Publication Date:

27/05/2015

Source: Daily Mail (United Kingdom)

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