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Concern over poor air quality and traffic congestion in South Asian cities including Dhaka; action must gather momentum

• New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, and Work for a Better Bangladesh Trust organise a workshop in Dhaka on Air Quality and Sustainable Transportation Challenge in South Asian Cities

Adani project in Mundra has violated environmental norms, rules MoEF committee

Report provides incontrovertible evidence of destruction of mangroves, blocking of creeks and non-compliance of other clearance conditions

CSE’s Green Schools Awards, 2013: Schools awarded for innovating on rainwater harvesting, waste management etc. 11 Delhi schools feature in the list of winners

• Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) Gobar Times national and state-level Green Schools Awards for 2013 presented. Ramakant Goswami, Delhi’s minister for transport, election, law and labour, and the popular band Indian Ocean present the awards

CSE responds to pesticide industry advertisement published in the guise of public interest appeal in a major national daily.

Pesticide regulation is clearly about high stakes. The stakes concern our health and our bodies

Vice President Hamid Ansari expresses concern over scarce water resources as well as the stark inequity in access to water

He was speaking at Centre for Science and Environment’s Second Anil Agarwal Dialogue on water and wastewater management in cities, titled ‘Excreta Does Matter’

Regional Workshop on "Energy and Resource Efficiency in Urban Water Management” in Guwahati, Assam on February 28, 2013

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) organized a regional workshop on “Sustainable Water and Sanitation: Energy and Resource Efficiency in Urban Water Management” on February 28, 2013 at the NEDFi Conference Hall, Guwahati, Assam. The workshop was supported by Urban Development Department (UDD) and Guwahati Development Department (GDD), Government of Assam as the local partner state.

Paradigm shift in India’s health policy needed, say top officials speaking at CSE conference on Food Safety and Environmental Toxins

Policy should move from disease control to prevention, and focus more on water and sanitation, safe food and clean environment

CSE’s national conference on food safety and environmental toxins kicks off

Puts the limelight on lax regulations, weak enforcement

Air pollution is now the fifth largest killer in India, says newly released findings of Global Burden of Disease report

• Findings released by the scientists behind the study at a Dialogue Workshop organised by Centre for Science and Environment, Indian Council of Medical Research and US-based Health Effects Institute

CSE PRESS NOTE: Who is the one not playing by the rules – India or the US?

US charges that India’s National Solar Mission is discriminating against foreign solar companies