{"id":15290,"date":"2023-02-03T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T07:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/?p=15290"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:25:12","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-central-pollution-control-board-we-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/story\/15290\/an-open-letter-to-the-central-pollution-control-board-we-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to the Central Pollution Control Board &#8211; We are back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-hydrate=\"planet4-blocks\/gallery\" data-attributes=\"{&quot;attributes&quot;:{&quot;gallery_block_style&quot;:0,&quot;gallery_block_title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;gallery_block_description&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;multiple_image&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;gallery_block_focus_points&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;image_data&quot;:[],&quot;images&quot;:[]}}\"><section class=\"block carousel-wrap is-style-slider\"><\/section><\/div>\n<p>It has been over nine months since Greenpeace India\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2023\/02\/9cd70886-follow-up-cpcb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open letter<\/a> to the Central Pollution Control Board seeking an urgent revision of India&#8217;s Air Quality Standards. Despite the demand having been backed by over 10,000 concerned citizens, there has neither been a response nor an update of any kind on the same. We write to you again, to remind you that the revision of our National Ambient Air Quality Standards(NAAQS) according to the updated World Health Organization (WHO) standards (2022) is critical in the fight against air pollution and is long overdue.<br><br>Read Greenpeace India\u2019s key recommendations to the Central Pollution Control Board to help control and mitigate the effects of air pollution in the country.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-cta\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2023\/02\/9cd70886-follow-up-cpcb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read Here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>\n.carousel-wrap .carousel-item {\n    height: 70vh !important;\n}\np{\ntext-align:justify\n}\n<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To,Dr Prashant GargavaMember SecretaryCentral Pollution Control Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":15293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,44],"tags":[],"p4-page-type":[16],"class_list":["post-15290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-greenpeace","p4-page-type-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15290"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19058,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions\/19058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15290"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=15290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}