Tehran, Sept 14, IRNA - Iran is required to generate 5,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energies by 2015 as stipulated in the Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2010-15). Yousef Rashidi, a director of the Department of Environment, added that the country currently generates up to 350 MW of renewable energy, which is unsatisfactory. Energy ...

TEHRAN August 30 (Shana)--A senior official of the Department of the Environment (DOE) has said that the gasoline distributed in Tehran contains less than one-percent benzene. Yousef Rashidi said the DOE analyzes gasoline distribution in big cities including Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj and Arak every three months to gauge their polluting rate. The latest ...

TEHRAN August 25 (Shana)--A senior official at Irans Department of the Environment has said that the highly pollutant benzene is widely used in gasoline production in Tehran. Yousef Rashidi said pyrolytic gasoline contains 50 percent benzene which is largely present in Tehrans air. Evaporation of fuel containing aromatics and benzene, combustion ...

Many high-polluting industrial businesses have been working night shifts to get around environmental standards set by the Department of the Environment. The head of the Iranian Centre for Climate and Weather says such businesses have been on the Environment Departments blacklist for a long time for trying to avoid scrutiny by operating on national ...

TEHRAN, May 25 (MAY) The head of Department of Environment National Climate Center has said aromatic compounds added to gasoline are sources of airborne particles. Dr. Yousef Rashidi, once the managing director of Tehran Weather Control Company, told Mehr News that the Company had issued necessary caveats to the oil ministry about the carcinogenic ...