Local resources can meet India's rural needs

The use of kerosene for lighting and biomass for cooking is predominant throughout rural India. And since provision of grid electricity to rural …

Fuelling a crisis

A recent, innocuous check-and-tally exercise by the Delhi administration unearthed a giant racket diverting to the transport sector heavily-…

Fuelling a crisis

A recent, innocuous check-and-tally exercise by the Delhi administration unearthed a giant racket diverting to the transport sector heavily-…

Dirty fuel

CSE's Clean Air campaigners ANUMITA ROYCHOWDHURY and CHIRAG SHAH expose the dirty, intelligent and systematic business of fuel adulteration:…

The energy divide

Chronic power deprivation in some districts raises serious policy issues

New business for new renewables

Cash transfers do not benefit

Jitendra visited three districts in Rajasthan to meet people who are supposed beneficiaries of UPA government’s much-touted Direct Benefit …

Kerosene slips through greasy palms

Authorities tread on slippery ground trying to resolve the fuel crisis in Mysore

Prime Minister’s Logic

Root cause

Adulteration is an effect of warped pricing

2001 onwards

A systematically careless government

Fuel for sorrow

Norms, at last

India has emission standards for domestic power generators

Cooking on toxic fumes

Burning biomass causes TB

South Asia

Kerosene consumption through PDS registers sharp increase

Consumption of PDS rice and wheat, too, increase

WHO sets emissions standards for reducing indoor air pollution

4.3 million global premature deaths around each year attributed to illnesses caused by household air pollution

Transition failure

With an eye on the 2014 general election, the UPA government is expanding its ambitious Direct Benefit Transfer programme that promises welfare …

The poor and the environment: lessons from energy crisis

Darkness before light

Down To Earth visited Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh and found that despite electrification, households continue to depend on kerosene and …

Simply Put: Zero emission house