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[h=1]Why India will do nothing about killer 'diesel'[/h]Every time we pointed out the overwhelming evidence of diesel's toxicity, we were brushed aside, says Sunita Narain.
The Volkswagen diesel car scam is of no consequence to us.
India's diesel vehicle industry is so powerful that even this expose of the cover-up of diesel emissions is like water off a duck's back to them.
They should be renamed Teflon Diesel. They will ride it out, literally, even if it means we choke and die from deadly emissions of their vehicles.
My experience with the diesel vehicle industry teaches me this. It was in the mid-1990s, when the air in Delhi was black with smog, that we at the Centre for Science and Environment began work on controlling air pollution.
Scientific information was trickling in that diesel emissions were much more toxic than previously understood.
Read more at: http://www.rediff.com/business/repo...l-do-nothing-about-killer-diesel/20151026.htm
The Volkswagen diesel car scam is of no consequence to us.
India's diesel vehicle industry is so powerful that even this expose of the cover-up of diesel emissions is like water off a duck's back to them.
They should be renamed Teflon Diesel. They will ride it out, literally, even if it means we choke and die from deadly emissions of their vehicles.
My experience with the diesel vehicle industry teaches me this. It was in the mid-1990s, when the air in Delhi was black with smog, that we at the Centre for Science and Environment began work on controlling air pollution.
Scientific information was trickling in that diesel emissions were much more toxic than previously understood.
Read more at: http://www.rediff.com/business/repo...l-do-nothing-about-killer-diesel/20151026.htm
