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Timeline of pollution in Delhi

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| 2015 || December || {{w|Air pollution}} || Study shows that Delhi loses 80 lives to air pollution every day, or approximately 10,000 to 30,000 annual deaths in the city.<ref name="Delhi loses 80 lives to air pollution every day, says study">{{cite web |title=Delhi loses 80 lives to air pollution every day, says study |url=https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/delhi-loses-80-lives-to-air-pollution-every-day-says-study-50222 |website=downtoearth.org.in |accessdate=8 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Air pollution kills 30,000 in Delhi every year |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/air-pollution-kills-30k-in-delhi-every-year/story-8V6MbjDh6JC2PifATbSutO.html |website=hindustantimes.com |accessdate=8 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || End of the year || {{w|Air pollution}} || Severe air pollution in Delhi [[w:National Capital Region (India)|National Capital Region]] leads to a number of Suppreme Court rulings, one banning the sale of diesel cars in the area with engine displacements greater than 2.0 L from January 1 to 1 April 2016.<ref name="Energy Law in India">{{cite book |last1=Naseem |first1=Mohammad |last2=Naseem |first2=Saman |title=Energy Law in India |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=QI2WDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT134&lpg=PT134&dq=%22pollution%22+%22delhi%22+%22in+april%22+%222000..2019%22&source=bl&ots=HBm3yGPNa-&sig=ACfU3U0cevPUsyw24VQTLXHDqUweCN4Qfw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje17PEuY_iAhVzK7kGHZbnCjgQ6AEwA3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22pollution%22%20%22delhi%22%20%22in%20april%22%20%222000..2019%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 2016 || November || {{w|Air pollution}} || {{w|Air pollution}} in Delhi reaches 16 times above safe levels, and the Delhi government declares an emergency.<ref name="Despite government’s emergency pollution plan, Delhi once again breathed deadly air through winter">{{cite web |title=Despite government’s emergency pollution plan, Delhi once again breathed deadly air through winter |url=https://scroll.in/article/909935/despite-governments-emergency-pollution-plan-delhi-once-again-breathed-deadly-air-through-winter |website=scroll.in |accessdate=8 May 2019}}</ref>
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