The head of Irans Department of the Environment has announced serious concern over the release of untreated city and town sewage into rivers in some parts of the country, referring to it as an environmental catastrophe. In a report in the Sharvand Daily on Monday October 6, Massoumeh Ebtekar said the Department of the Environment is firmly pursuing ...

Irans Head of Department of the Environment has announced that gasoline produced by petrochemical plants have been completely banned across the country. IRNA reports that Massoumeh Ebtekar said in a speech in Qom on Monday September 22 that petrochemical gasoline, which the former administration referred to as self-sufficient gasoline, has been completely ...

The distribution of clean gasoline has helped control air pollution in four large Iranian cities, including the capital, Tehran, says the director of the countrys department of the environment. Masoumeh Ebtekar, an Iranian vice president, said on Thursday that the country had begun distributing clean gasoline in the metropolitan cities of Tehran, ...

The Sabz Chia Association, an environmental protection group in Marivan, has been awarded Irans National Environment Prize. The Cultural Heritage website reports that Sabz Chia has been chosen for its continued efforts to replenish forests and fight against the poaching of wildlife. On Saturday May 31, the prize was awarded by President Hassan ...