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Delhi govt plans 20 centres to monitor PM 2.5 and PM 10

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 28, 2016

Authorities in the national capital plan to have around 20 monitoring stations that will exclusively measure the levels of ultrafine particulates PM 2.5 and PM 10, the dominant pollutants in...

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PEC to create pollution profile of Chandigarh city

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 25, 2016

PEC University of Technology will develop air and sound quality friendly route recommendation system for the city. The university has bagged a research project entitled 'City Probe: A city-scale...

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Central Pollution Control Board readies action plan to fight bad air

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 23, 2016

After being rapped for not adopting any emergency smog control measure, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is preparing an action plan that will be submitted to the Supreme Court on...

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Beijing to ban polluting cars during smog alerts

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 23, 2016

Beijing will next year ban highly polluting old cars from being driven whenever air quality alerts are issued in the city or neighbouring regions, the city's environmental protection bureau said...

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'Significant' level of stubble burning in Haryana, Punjab: Government

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 22, 2016

There was "significant" level of stubble burning this year in Punjab and Haryana, however, there is no "conclusive" study to suggest that it "always" impacts quality of air in Delhi, Rajya Sabha...

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Kerala to get advanced air quality monitoring systems

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 11, 2016

Kerala will get four new state-of-the-art real-time ambient air quality monitoring systems (AAQMS) by the end of this financial year. While Thiruvananthapuram has an AAQMS with less parameters,...

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Need stringent enforcement of emergency measures for pollution control: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 7, 2016

Lauding the Delhi government's announcement of taking emergency steps to tackle the severe air pollution, a green body on Sunday said these will need strict enforcement and vehicle restraint...

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UK, Indian scientists investigating air-pollution causes

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 4, 2016

British and Indian scientists are working to understand the sources, causes and effects of pollution after fireworks during Diwali and Guy Fawkes’ night sharply reduced visibility in the two...

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Subject Tags: air pollution , Research

Action plan for New Delhi for Air pollution

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 3, 2016

The Delhi government on Tuesday announced an action plan to deal with the severe pollution this winter. This includes a crackdown on construction sites violating norms, reviving the Swachch...

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Delhi Pollution Levels Soar, Centre Summons 5 Northern States

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 1, 2016

After a nearly 21-fold increase in pollution levels here on Diwali, the Centre summoned governments of Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh over enforcing ban on stubble burning...

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Subject Tags: air pollution , CPCB