Now thermal power plants recovering waste heat need no green clearance

The MoEF&CC relaxed the EIA norms to benefit industries employing Waste Heat Recovery Boilers without any auxiliary fuel

Panel suggests measures to tackle crisis in stressed thermal power projects

Report flags erratic coal supply, institutional challenges; suggests closing old thermal power units

Past their prime

Around 20 per cent of India's coal-based power plants have completed their life. It is time these highly inefficient and polluting units were shut

Algae with a taste for carbon dioxide

NTPC considering pilot project in Visakhapatnam

And justice for all

A stay order issued in public interest by a court must outweigh the public interest of completing a project in time

Most NCR thermal power plants exceed MOEFCC emission norms, adding to region’s pollution problem

Recent CSE analysis found just two of 11 plants have SO2 control measures, just one compliant with standards

Playing hooky

Maharashtra government is none too keen to talk on Enron

Cap the trade

Are we equipped to meet 2022 deadline on emission standards?

Almost seven years since the notification, not even 7 per cent of India’s coal capacity meets the standards issued by the MoEF&CC

Clean power from coal

Giving coal a 'good scrub' by using small calcium oxide crystals might greatly reduce the pollution caused by coal-based power stations

Environment ministry amendment gives coal thermal power stations full licence to pollute: CSE

The modified notification favours operation of old inefficient coal power stations, which can continue to run indefinitely on paying a nominal …

PAKISTAN

POOR SCORING

Right to know

Stay Order

Bangla Power

Power to pollute

More power will mean more pollution, say participants at a recently-held seminar in Lucknow

ORDER RESERVED

A nod to private power

Down with protests

Is the Indian government silencing protests against the Enron power project?

Abusing PILs

The Supreme Court makes the petitioner in a public interest litigation accountable

Polls take their toll

Going to seed

No smiling matter

Pollution export