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When Worlds Collide #119: Long way to lowering Lanka’s Deadly Diesel Hazard
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 29 August 2014 Progress is slow and incremental. Those who take all-or-nothing positions often end up with…nothing. So let’s hail Sri Lanka’s leading petroleum distributor introducing a … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Biofuels, Business & Commerce, Communicating Development, Energy Conservation, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Public policy, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged air quality, Air Resource Management Center (AirMAC), Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, ‘Lanka Super Diesel 4 Star’, cancer, carcinogen, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), diesel subsidy, diesel sulphur content, Dr Sunil Chandrasiri, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), National Environmental Act, PM10, Professor Oliver Ileperuma, Sri Lanka air pollution, sulphur dioxide, super diesel, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organisation (WHO)
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