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The Indian Airpocalypse
How many times must civil society organisations, residents and children, pay a visit to the Environment Ministry of India until something is actually “done” about the air pollution crisis? As a country, we’ve already seen more than a million deaths as a result of outdoor air pollution and it has even cost our economy. Today,…
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Lucknow Unites to Fight Back Air Pollution in the City and the State
A report released by Greenpeace India earlier this week, on Monday, points to the scary and abnormally high levels of air pollution in UP. Lucknow | 3 February 2018: Environment protection…
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Three Years of Ecological Agriculture Has Changed Kedia Forever
As I write about a small village called Kedia in the Jamui district of Bihar, and some of its very significant achievements, I cannot tell you how thrilled I am…
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The Perils of Throw-Away Economy
I cannot help picturing the PET bottle I ungraciously bought in 2017 which is going to pollute the planet for the next 500 years.
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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 pollution, the government has finally stated in the parliament that they have formulated a national clean air programme to tackle air pollution.
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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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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…