Russia-Ukraine war to have ‘ripple effects’ on India’s fuel prices: Experts

India should take this as a market signal and channel investments into electric vehicles and green hydrogen, which are substitutes for oil and gas,…

Bharat Stage VI: India leapfrogs today and it is no Fool’s day  

Despite the pall of gloom around COVID-19, there is reason to cheer that India has become the only country to leapfrog directly to Bharat Stage …

Vehicular fumes escalate deaths and illness: New global study

Diesel vehicles responsible for nearly half the world's premature deaths. Delhi ranks sixth

Why electric is better

A comparative study between an internal combustion engine and an electric powertrain shows why electric vehicles are the future

Remove the perverse incentive

Budget should make diesel cars pay for subidised fuel, pollution

Nothing to smile about!

Yashwant Sinha pleases the industry by playing a rude joke on the environment

Oil price hike: quick-fix measures wont work

Polar potential

Africa’s energy poverty: Grid expansion, stronger financing, balancing renewable ambitions with gas solution for Nigeria

Nigerians unable to afford clean energy as prices soar and demand remains unmet

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 22, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

PM at India Energy Week launch: Ethanol blending allowed up to 20% in petrol

Domestically produced ethanol has been identified as an opportunity to reduce oil imports, in an effort to achieve energy independence

Whose responsibility is it anyway?

Two years after the Supreme Court directed the setting up of two independent fuel testing centres in Delhi, one is yet to be commissioned

Cancer in Kolkata air

Bihar plans all-CNG commercial car fleet for Patna

Vehicle owners wary of cost factor, lack of filling stations

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 15, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal    

Gas distress

Patrolling pollution

Tamil Nadu becomes the first state to punish polluting petrol stations

Science vs economics of cess on diesel

Walk the talk on carbon tax, Mr Finance Minister

Is this carbon tax, imposed on the carbon content of fuel, doing what it should—reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are responsible for …

Electrifying offshore platforms targets a tiny fraction of the oil industry’s emissions

Configuration & location of some of the older installations mean that electrification will prove to be prohibitively expensive

Exxon scientists accurately forecast climate change back in the 1970s – what if we had listened to them and acted then?

Climatic collapse — as we understand it in our world today — could have largely been avoided perhaps

Target to halve global fuel consumption by 2030 is stalling: IEA report

Fuel consumption should fall 4.3 per cent per year on average from 2019 to 2030, to halve fuel consumption of new light-duty vehicles

BSIV muddle in stimulus package for auto-industry

Why Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's stimulus package for auto sector states the obvious that BSIV vehicles registered before BSVI roll out …

Cosmetic concern

Correcting distortions