New Emission Norms for Coal-Fired Power Plants
According to the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based non-profit, 61 percent of coal-fired power plants near cities with populations of more than a million people that must fulfil pollution regulations by December 2022 would miss their deadlines.
About Emission Norms
- In 2015, the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) established new emission standards and set a deadline for meeting them.
- India had originally set a deadline of 2017 for thermal power plants to meet emissions regulations by installing Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) units, which reduce hazardous sulphur dioxide emissions.
- Later, this was altered to multiple deadlines for ....
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