To clean up Delhi's air, the Supreme Court ruled in July 1998 that all public transport should move away from diesel and towards compressed natural gas CNG By March 31, 2001. But the Union government and the Delhi state government have done nothing apar

Vikrams are out, electric vehicles are in. Still, the Nepal government s decision to import minibuses could put their clean air campaign back to square one

A 12-day training workshop for mechanics of two-stroke autorickshaws have resulted in widespread protest from the people and environmentalists in Bangladesh. The primary reason for the uproar against

The Supreme Court in its order of 4.10.1999 called for suggestions regarding emissions control from two-wheelers and three-wheelers. The EPCA, in its earlier report of August, 1999, has made a brief recommendation that on scooters, which are high emitters of particulate, suggesting that the norms be tightened further, and the next set of standards announced early.

Highly-polluting, diesel-operated three-wheelers, popularly known as Vikrams, will be banished from the roads of Kathmandu from

People in Nepal wage a war against polluting diesel three wheelers

What does the phase out of commercial vehicles mean to the drivers of autorickshaws and taxis that have gone off the road?

full of gas: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL), New Delhi, has developed a technology for converting liquid natural gas into value-added liquefied petroleum gas. Following this breakthrough,

With elections round the corner, the Delhi government has gone back on its decision to phase out 15 year old commercial vehicles

Pollution control with a human face means that to save the jobs of a few thousand people, the health of over ten million people should be put at risk

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