New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) releases Excreta Matters, its 71-city study of how Indian urban centres manage their water and sewage.
Most junk foods contain very high levels of trans fats, salts and sugar – which inevitably lead to severe ill health and diseases like obesity and diabetes CSE lab tests 16 major brands of foods relished by people, particularly the young: Maggi and Top Ramen noodles, MacDonald’s foods, KFC’s fried chicken and Haldiram’s Aloo Bhujia, among others
Punjab and Haryana High Court restrains Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) from giving licenses to builders unless they give an affidavit that they will not use groundwater
CSE report on water-sewage management of Gurgaon says the city may soon be hit by the twin trauma of no water and overflowing sewage
Nearly every day this summer, both particulate matter and ozone levels have exceeded standards. These pollutants can snuff life out of cities On top of that, carbon dioxide emissions from cars have added to the warming in and around the city
Patna, May 25, 2012: Patna suffers from a problem of plenty – of water and sewage. It depends on the Ganga and groundwater for drinking.
CSE slams petrol price hike as “mindless” as it does not narrow the price gap with diesel This is leading to gross misuse of diesel by rich car owners and massive revenue losses to the government The government should either ban use of diesel in cars or increase price of diesel and tax on diesel cars
A latest study by CSE’s Pollution Monitoring Lab finds antibiotic contamination in honey; investigations by Down To Earth points to double standards in regulations as foreign brands sold in India also have contamination
New Delhi, September 18, 2010: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has come out with a strong rebuttal of claims made by Capilano, the Australian honey producing firm, which has rejected the tests on honey conducted by CSE’s Pollution Monitoring Lab.
CSE releases findings on parking in Sarojini Nagar and the lessons from it Says without a clear strategy, expensive parking structures can neither reduce parking chaos nor parking demand
Supports the tax hike on big cars and SUVs But says budget is incomplete, as it has failed to take steps to stop misuse of diesel fuel subsidy by cars
Two-day Anil Agarwal Dialogue on Green Clearances kicks off in Delhi with 150 participants from NGOs across India
Says this is a ploy to avoid higher taxation on diesel cars
Wants public hearings to be made a part of the decision-making process Reforms needed in the green clearance process, agrees government. Calls for decentralising clearance and monitoring