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</p><p>"Time" hails environmentalist Sunita Narain, Bhure Lal as "Climate Crusaders"<br></p><p><br></p><p>
New York, Mar 27 (ANI): International magazine Time has praised
environmentalists Sunita Narain and Bhure Lal for their consistent
effort to reduce the amount of air pollution in Delhi in their latest
edition.</p><p>
In a report titled" The Climate Crusaders",Times wrote: "Sunita Narain
and Bhure Lal led to build the world's cleanest public-transport
network", and then adds; "Narain and Lal don't claim to have slowed
global warming. But their efforts have attracted requests for advice
from as far away as Kenya and Indonesia".</p><p>
Sunita Narain, Director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and
Bhure Lal, former bureaucrat and Chairman of the Environment Pollution
(Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) have been credited with
removing the highly polluting diesel buses from Delhi's public
transport system and replacing them with clean CNG buses.</p><p>
Times in their latest cover story on global warming have also referred
the duo as "pollution fighters" and has highlighted the trials and
tribulations faced by them in order to relieve "Delhi from choking".</p><p>
The magazine in its report writes about the July 1998 order of Supreme
Court on a lawsuit filed by Sunita Narain that was objected to by the
bus owners and oil companies, most of them getting support from
ministers. It then adds that the Committee formed on the Court's order
and headed by Lal along with Narain "fought back and by December 2002
the last diesel bus had left Delhi, and 10,000 taxis, 12,000 buses and
80,000 rickshaws were powered by CNG".</p><p>
"Although air pollution in Delhi has stabilized, the fight for clean
air is far from won", Times write and quotes Narain as saying "Delhi
leapfrogged".</p><p>
Narain, a recipient of many national and international awards, was
awarded with Stockholm Water Prize and Padma Shri by the Government of
India last year.</p><p>
Narain and Lal share spaces with Fred Krupp the noted environmentalist
whose effort to have a trading system to control carbon dioxide
emission, along with China's Li Zheng, 35 years old writer and
supporter of the Keep Winter Cool campaign Auden Schendler and Rev. Jim
Ball of U.S. who led the unique "What Would Jesus Drive?" campaign in
2002 against gas-guzzling cars. (ANI)</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>------------------------------------------------------<br>Sujit Patwardhan<br><a href="mailto:sujit@vsnl.com">sujit@vsnl.com</a><br><a href="mailto:sujitjp@gmail.com">
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