Donald Trump stopped pollution monitoring from American embassies.

Last updated:March 05, 2025, 22:16 IST

Donald Trump has stopped monitoring pollution from US embassies. Due to this, live tracking of air quality has stopped worldwide including Delhi. Budget deduction is the reason for this.

Monitoring programs closed due to budget deduction.

Donald Trump has taken a lot of decisions after becoming the President of America, which has caused turmoil all over the world. Now the Trump administration has stopped monitoring pollution through its embassies throughout the world including India, America. In Delhi too, live tracking of pollution was being done from the US embassy, ​​but now it has been closed. The people of Delhi can understand it well.

Live tracking of pollution from American embassies was quite accurate. Due to this, Indians living in the whole world, especially America, used to get information about their city. Although the America had made this facility for its citizens, but Donald Trump has stopped giving the budget for it, describing it as useless expenses. After this, the State Department, citing “lack of budget”, said that it is ending the data broadcast of the air quality monitoring program. A spokesman for the State Department said, “Due to the budget cut, we have to stop this facility.” We cannot release more such figures further. The old data will remain on the site of the environment protection agency, but the live data was closed on Tuesday and will remain closed until the funds are restored.

When China becomes embarrassed
America has been sharing this data since 2008. But recently, China had a sensor on it. He had said that America is trying to spy through this. In 2014, when Obama went to attend a Shikhar conference, the data of the US embassy was shared on an app, which showed that the figure that China is issuing and the figure is issuing America, there is a lot of difference in the figure that is issuing America. It was found that China was trying to hide pollution figures. This was a lot of embarrassment of China.

What effect on India
The policy data from the US embassy was also used for Delhi. Because the Air Quality Index in Delhi is very poor. Especially in the month of January, the situation is very serious. The data received from here uses the entire world agencies and says that the situation is serious due to pollution in India and especially in Delhi. Now Trump has stopped this, then the data will not come out and the agencies will have to rely on the data of the Government of India.