65 percent of coal-fired power plants in India may not meet environmental norms by the deadline year of 2022
2022 is going to be their deadline for meeting environmental norms, but a new and updated assessment by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) finds that a very large number of coal-fired power plants in India continue to be completely lax and laid back when it comes to getting ready to meet the deadline. “In fact, at the rate that they are going,” says Nivit Kumar Yadav, senior programme manager of CSE’s industrial pollution team, “65 per cent of them may not be able to comply even by this extended deadline.”Way back in December 2015, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) had notified emission norms for four pollutants in the coal-based thermal power sector — particulate matter (PM), sulphur dioxide (SO2).....