India pushes back deadline for coal-fired utilities to adopt new emission norms

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India has pushed back deadlines for coal-fired power plants to adopt new emission norms by up to three years, and allowed utilities that miss the new target to continue operating after paying a penalty, according to a government notice.

India had initially set a 2017 deadline for thermal power plants to install Flue Gas Desulphurization units that cut emissions of sulphur dioxides. But that was postponed to varying deadlines for different regions, ending in 2022.

Operators of coal-fired utilities including state-run NTPC Ltd and industry groups representing private companies such as Reliance Power and Adani Power have long been lobbying for dilution of the pollution standards, citing high compliance costs. A task force will be constituted by the Central Pollution Control Board to categorise plants in three categories “on the basis of their location to comply with the emission norms”, the environment ministry said in its order.

 

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Not only coal. All mining in India is detrimental. Bringing more amounts of pollutants onto earth. Ecological destruction with holes⭕ underneath. Double whacked. Causes Earthquake, air, water pollution. Recycling, reuse of minerals circulareconomy important. WHO UN wto

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