In a bid to promote bio-fuel run vehicles, the government issued a notification amending the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 to include dual-fuel vehicles for agricultural tractors and construction equipment vehicles.
Agriculture tractors, power tillers, construction equipment vehicles and combine harvesters can now be converted to run on bio-fuels.
According to the notification, dual-fuel with primary fuel as diesel and secondary fuel as CNG, Bio-CNG and LNG has been added in section 115 A of the Act.
According to the section, every agricultural tractor and construction equipment vehicle manufactured shall be maintained and used by its owner in such condition that visible and gaseous pollutants emitted by them comply with the standards prescribed in this rule.
Dec 03, 2018
Delhi's New Draft Policy on E-Vehicles
The Delhi government has put its new draft policy on electric vehicles which sets an ambitious target of electrifying 25% of all new vehicles registered by 2023 in public domain for suggestions. Electric vehicles can help because they have zero tailpipe emissions and can reduce the dangerous nitrogen-oxide and particulate matter in the air. They also offer quieter and smoother rides. The new draft policy's focus on electrifying two-wheelers, besides auto rickshaws, cabs, goods carriers and public buses, could address a big problem.
Nov 29, 2018
EU Aims to Be Climate Neutral by 2050
The European Union says it is aiming to become the first major economy to go climate neutral by 2050.
Under the plan, emissions of greenhouse gases after that date would have to be offset by planting trees or by burying the gases underground.
Scientists say that net-zero emissions by 2050 are needed to have a fighting chance of keeping global temperatures under 1.5C this century.
The EU says the move will also cut premature air pollution deaths by 40%.
Nov 21, 2018
Crater under Greenland Ice
An international team of researchers has discovered an impact crater of vast proportions hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in Greenland.
More than 19 miles wide and about 1,000 feet deep, the huge bowl-shaped depression is bigger than Washington, D.C., and one of the 25 biggest craters ever discovered on Earth. It's also the first crater to have been discovered under a continental ice sheet.
Oct 17, 2018
Shifting to 100% Wind Generation
Scottish Power has switched to 100% wind power, by selling off its last remaining gas power stations to Drax for more than £700m.
Iberdrola, Scottish Power's Spanish parent company, said the move was part of its strategy to tackle climate change and would free it up to invest in renewables and power grids in the UK.
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