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Energy Drinks samples tested | Comments

CSE laboratory tests show energy drinks contain excess caffeine; their market grows without checks

Read full DTE story: Cap energy drinks
CSE’s Green Schools Awards, 2010-11 | Comments

Once again, rural, semi-urban and government schools corner most of the awards

These schools have taken up rainwater harvesting, use of public transport, waste management and conservation of energy
as long-term actions

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See also

Profiles of Some of the Schools

The Award  Winners – 2010-11

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India's Consent takes Endosulfan on the PIC List | Comments

Day 5: With no consensus reached on white asbestos, its back to square one. The only progress was India changing its stand and therefore one less country to convert in the next COP session.

CSE releases its report on profit sharing in mining | Comments

Mining companies must share profits with local communities: latest CSE report comes out in support of proposal to share 26 per cent net profits

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Politics pull down climate talks, emission ups | Comments

Possibility of a global treaty looks thin in Durban later this year

Will Bonn be as banal as Bangkok? | Comments

Mid-year climate negotiations kick-off in UNFCCC headquarters but there is too much on the plate to resolve

CSE review: Planning Commission's interim report on low carbon strategies for inclusive growth | Comments

A review of the 'Interim Report of the Expert Group on Low Carbon Strategies for Inclusive Growth' shows a lack of ambition and an absence of overarching strategy in the report.

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Press Releases

July 18, 2011
  • Centre for Science and Environment’s Pollution Monitoring Lab carries out tests on leading ‘energy’ drink brands like Red Bull and Cloud 9. Finds high levels of caffeine in 44 per cent of the samples
July 15, 2011

Once again, rural, semi-urban and government schools corner most of the awards

These schools have taken up rainwater harvesting, use of public transport, waste management and conservation of energy
as long-term actions

  • Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) Gobar Times national and state-level Green School Awards for 2010-11 announced and presented. This is the fifth year of the awards

July 8, 2011
  • Coal mining firms will now have to share 26 per cent of profits with local people

  • Important step towards inclusive growth, says CSE

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