Sept. 09, 1999
"If small particulate pollution level in California ever reached the same levels as in Delhi today, Californian environmental authorities would have declared emergency, shutting all emission sources in the city and taking vehicles off the road," informed Dr Shankar Prasad, the community health adviser, California Air Resources Board, while noting the alarming difference in the levels of particulate levels in California and Delhi in a public lecture organised by the Centre for Science and Environment in the capital today

Sept. 03, 1999
IOCs move to supply 0.05 per cent sulphur much before the deadline in Delhi comes as a slap in the face of the ministry of petroleum and natural gas which has obstinately maintained that it would not be possible to lower sulphur content in diesel any further in the near future. Market forces have finally pushed the oil industry to meet the demand for cleaner fuel.

July 18, 1999
THE GREENEST PAPER MILL IN INDIA
Centre for Science and Environment releases the results of its Green Rating Project on the Pulp and Paper Industry

July 03, 1999
MERCHANTS OF MENACE
Our health is at the mercy of transnational carmakers (TNCs). And the Merchants of Menace—the top brass in these companies—don’t give a damn. Well aware that tiny particles from diesel exhausts kill thousands in Indian cities, TNCs—from Toyota and Ford to Mercedes—are bent upon introducing diesel cars that will add to the death count

June 05, 1999
SICK OF AIR POLLUTION?
Cancer, asthma, bronchitis, sinus and a host of other respiratory disorders are the diseases of urban India, which cost the country Rs 4,550 crores annually. Prevention is definitely better than cure under the circumstances, doctors advice Delhi’s chief minister, in a statement released in a CSE meeting

May 13, 1999
Centre for Science and Environment expresses displeasure at the way in which the Government of  India has pleaded in the Supreme Court today to protect the business interests of the automobile industry in complete disregard of public health concerns. Even more damaging has been the abdication of responsibility by the Government to certify Euro norm compliance to the vehicle manufacturers.

May 04, 1999
ENVIRONMENTALISTS THREATENED WITH RS 100 CRORE LEGAL SUIT BY TELCO FOR THEIR CAMPAIGN AGAINST PRIVATE DIESEL CARS. THEY TELL TELCO NOT TO THREATEN BUT TO TAKE THEM TO COURT

April 30, 1999
Centre for Science and Environment expresses deep appreciation of the Supreme Court’s move to restrict the car sales and for making compliance with more stringent emission norms conditional for selling cars in Delhi

April 23, 1999
GOVERNMENT, LEGAL SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE
"It is a myth to believe that the government always works for the benefit of theRajinder Singh, from the Alwar-based NGO Tarun Bharat Sangh, said at a workshop on public participation in environmental decision making. The two-day workshop was organised by the Centre for Science and Environment, in collaboration with the Washington-based Environmental Law Institute

Feb. 20, 1999
GREEN LEADERS
In the first-ever effort of its kind in India, Centre for Science and Environment conducted a survey among environmentalists and Down To Earth (DTE) readers to find out how "green" the country’s chief ministers are. dte carried a readers’ survey in September 1998. There were 335 responses. In addition, 237 environmentalists rated the chief ministers of their respective states

Jan. 14, 1999
WILL WE DIE LIKE THE VULTURES?
At a public meeting organised by Centre for Science and Environment today, Asad Rahmani, director of the Bombay Natural History Society, put forward research confirming that vulture populations in India were on a drastic decline

Jan. 4, 1999
KILLERS AT LARGE
Vultures are dying in India. And Down To Earth, India's leading science and environment fortnightly, reports high levels of pesticides in the carrion of buffaloes, the main food source of the vultures, in its latest issue (dated January 15, 1999; Vol 7, No 16)