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| 1980s || The issue of air and water pollution in Delhi enters the Supreme Court's agenda in the late decade, and periodic statements and orders are issued from the bench.<ref name="Environmentalism">{{cite book |last1=Bauer |first1=Joanne R |title=Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments: Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=4G5sBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=%22pollution%22+%22delhi%22+%22in+july%22+%221980..2019%22&source=bl&ots=wj80RtlT_-&sig=ACfU3U0LMYBphSCEP7yFPIs4nmiCA_O2fQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3ku_hvY_iAhVHF7kGHeIyCiUQ6AEwAHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22pollution%22%20%22delhi%22%20%22in%20july%22%20%221980..2019%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 2000s 1990s || Delhi reaches among the world's worst urban air quality. Air pollution's heavy impacts on human health, including infant mortality and asthma, leads to sustained efforts for improvement by Indian civil society.<ref name="Delhi air quality">{{cite web |title=Delhi air quality |url=http://wwf.panda.org/?204661/Delhi-air-quality |website=panda.org |accessdate=9 May 2019}}</ref> Several small and medium-size industries are relocated from Delhi as a measure to control pollution.<ref>{{cite web |title=Delhi lacks long-term plan to check industrial pollution |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/delhi-lacks-plan-to-check-industrial-pollution/story-XvnVL4h3w1ki2mdhFb9fuK.html |website=hindustantimes.com |accessdate=10 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2010s || "Over the last two years, Delhi’s pollution levels were high enough to affect the respiratory and cardiac systems of even healthy people. The health impacts of this pollution may be experienced even during “light physical activity”, as IndiaSpend reported on June 15, 2018."<ref name="Despite government’s emergency pollution plan, Delhi once again breathed deadly air through winter"/>
