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India’s Efforts to Tackle Air Pollution – Mere Tokenism
Thermal power plants are one of the major causes of air pollution in the country, especially in the Indo Gangetic Plain region (IGP). In December 2015, the Indian Government came out with a strict emission notification to control emissions from thermal power plants. According to the rules, all power plants are required to install emission…
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India’s Efforts to Tackle Air Pollution – Mere Tokenism
According to the rules, all power plants are required to install emission control equipments by the end of 2017. Reports indicate that, most power plants are yet to take the basic steps towards compliance
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Breathing car exhaust is my daily dose of nutrition!
Nobody is going to tell you this, unless by nutrition they mean deprivation. But there is nourishment in store in what I’m going to share with you today.
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Love for “Nanna Maraa” on Valentine’s Day
Greenpeace India and Jhatka, along with more than a hundred residents and volunteers, turned up on Valentine’s Day for a passionate evening among the trees on Jayamahal Road in Bengaluru.
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India’s Burning Issue
Waste burning is the most inadvisable first choice of waste disposal practice and yet, backyard waste burning and open waste burning near landfills are sights too familiar for an Indian.
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Smothered in Smog
Air pollution has become the biggest environmental concern globally. It has rapidly taken over the space once occupied by issues of poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water.
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Airpocalypse – Assessment of Air Pollution in Indian Cities
This report shows that deadly air pollution is not a problem restricted to Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) or even to India’s metros.
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Not just Delhi, air in most Indian cities hazardous – Greenpeace India report
Damning information obtained by Greenpeace India through online reports and Right to Information applications from State Pollution Control Boards across India, shows that none of the Indian cities comply with standards prescribed by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
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People Power Wins
A new year has begun. And many promises have been made. Only time will tell if they will be kept or broken. But our health, our forests, and our oceans, cannot wait. As we continue to campaign for our planet, one thing is certain – people power wins!
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED mustard is not needed
The proposal to allow cultivation of the genetically modified (GM) oilseed mustard DMH-11 doesn’t take into account recent advances with either conventional breeding production of hybrid varieties.