As told to Parliament (March 13, 2023): 19% PM2.5 emissions in Indo-Gangetic Plains come from households

Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Chandigarh and Delhi emit 437 gigagrams PM2.5 per year through household cooking 

Natural highways

The aviation sector is struggling for survival, while roadways and railways are bleeding the treasury dry. Inland navigation is economical and …

SC refuses to extend pollution norms deadline for power producers

The association of power producers sought extension to deadline for meeting pollution norms to 2024 from 2022

Solar mission: 1,500 MW worth projects to be allocated under bundling scheme

Bundling, wherein solar and thermal power were sold as a bundle, was credited with the reduction of tariff rates for solar power in Phase I of …

Concentrated solar power projects may get second extension

Lack of experience in handling new technologies and dearth of funds have been cited as reasons for delay in commissioning projects

Jharkhand police opens fire on people protesting NTPC project; one killed

Pagar village residents were protesting start of work on mining and power project in spite of gram sabha decision not to part with land

India didn’t need to let power producers emit more of deadly oxides of nitrogen; here’s why

Limiting NOx emission at 300 mg / Nm3 is doable, claims Finnish state-owned Fortum Oyj; Environment ministry relaxed norms to 450 mg / Nm3 in October

Experts flag dilution of NOx emission limit for coal-fired power stations

The SC on July 8 relaxed limits for coal-fired power stations commissioned between December 2003 and 2016 — to 450 mg / Nm3 from 300&…

Full bank guarantees of three solar companies encashed

The companies missed the last deadline of March 9 to commission solar power plants under national solar mission

Long march against coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh

The project in collaboration with India is next door to the ecologically sensitive Sundarbans

New guidelines for national solar mission power projects

Reverse bidding retained, small changes like use of domestic content raises technology concerns

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 20-24, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week

The truth about solar mission

For the Government of India the first phase of the national solar mission has been a grand success. It not only managed to attract industry to …

NTPC Dadri to adopt advanced boiler technology to reduce NOx emissions

Close monitoring of the technology’s performance is necessary to ensure compliance, says the Centre for Science and Environment

Protests resume at Loharinag Pala

As government decides to restart Bhagirathi project

Public hearing says no to NTPC

Mouda expansion project faces people’s ire

Struggle for existence

NTPC gets shock treatment

Volte-face

Can carbon capture be new hope for mitigating CO2 emissions?

NTPC Vindhyachal implements carbon capture technology

Power play

There is growing opposition to the setting up of a power plant in Madhya Pradesh

Shut and opened

Ganga's moment

NTPC dam rattles local elections

Officials subverted elections to the forest council that opposed dam, allege villagers

Too little to share

Kerala's paddy farmers resent water disbursal to NTPC plant