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The MoEFCC Has Spoken: A National Clean Air Programme for India
Amid all the bad news on air quality, there is a ray of hope. After two years of incessant public demand for a comprehensive national action plan to tackle air…
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Greenpeace India welcomes MoEFCC move for National Clean Air Program; calls it as the “Important First Step” towards tackling air pollution
Greenpeace India welcomes the National Clean Air Program (NCAP)
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MoEFCC: For People Or For Thermal Power Plants
Is this too much to ask for? Has the health of our children become so unimportant that we have been ignoring their pleas for a bit of clean air to breathe?
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As India struggles to breathe, over 300 coal power plants are violating air pollution laws and MoEFCC does nothing.
As of December 7, more than 300 coal power plants across the country are still violating the emission standard norms that were given by the MoEFCC back in 2015. These norms were to come into effect by the 7th of December 2017. But despite being given two years to implement these norms, the Ministry of…
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With Less Than 24 Hours to Go, Citizen Activists Say “Enough Is Enough”
Two years ago, coal power plants were given new emission norms to follow. The deadline has come. Tomorrow, on the 7th of December 2017, all power plants must have complied with the norms.
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Witness 4.17
There has been a strategic shift towards renewables as the world realised the implications of climate change with increasing number of extreme weather events and 195 nations joined hands to…
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Greenpeace India demands Regional Action Plan to control air pollution in Uttar Pradesh
Cities of Uttar Pradesh are none-too-better-off than Delhi when it comes to alarming levels of air pollution from Ghaziabad to Varanasi
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Make Your Own Black Gold
Do you yearn for the fragrance of the forest or miss petrichor wafting through your window after the first rains? Well, here’s how you can make your own heaven. This…
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It’s Deadly, and It’s Blowing In the Wind
It takes more than just having breakfast to keep you healthy. If you didn't live in a countryside far away from the industries, then know this: The air you’re breathing is toxic air.
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Witness 3.17 Vol. 60
GB Shaw once said, “There is no sincerer love than the love of food,” and indeed he was true. Our actions and intentions are governed by this basic instinct of…
