Day: March 17, 2021

Mumbai had an annual average PM 2.5 concentration of 41.3 micrograms/cubic metre, which is nearly four times above the WHO limit, according to IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on concentration of Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5. In the last one year, there was improvement in the annual average of PM 2.5 …

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India could soon have a single law governing air, water and environment-related activities, one of the senior-most officials in the environment ministry said on Tuesday. The Union environment ministry plans to table a new environmental management law that will subsume the Air Act 1981, Water Act 1974, and the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 and serve …

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