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LNG's Climate Impact: A Cleaner Alternative Or Hidden Emitter?
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has positioned itself as a "transition" fuel to replace highly polluting coal. While LNG burns cleaner than coal, its climate impact is darkened by energy-intensive production and frequent leaks from gas fields.
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Opinion: The Truth Behind Claims India Is World's Third-Largest Polluter
The big, global push to paint India as a climate bugbear has started taking shape. All fingers are pointing at India, criticisms are growing on New Delhi's energy policy and how it is apparently not in sync with global standards.
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Delhi's Air Quality Deteriorates, Authorities Enforce Ban on Coal Usage
This action comes as part of the government's pollution control plan known as the 'Graded Response Action Plan' (GRAP) which is implemented in Delhi-NCR to combat air pollution during the winter season.
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Delhi Factories On Coal, Other Polluting Fuels To Be Closed From Jan 1
The Centre's air quality panel on Wednesday said industries using unapproved fuels, including coal, in Delhi-NCR will be closed down straightaway from January 1 and heavy fines will be imposed on them.
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"No Diesel Generators, Increase Parking Fees": Air Quality Panel On Delhi
Use of diesel generators in Delhi must stop (except for emergencies), parking fees must increase by three-four times, and burning of coal and firewood cannot be allowed at hotels and open-air eateries, the Central Pollution Control Board said today.
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Beijing Shuts Roads, Playgrounds Amid Heavy Smog After China Coal Spike
Highways and school playgrounds in Beijing were closed Friday due to heavy pollution, as China ramps up coal production and faces scrutiny of its environmental record at make-or-break international climate talks.
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Centre Tweaks Policy To Use Biomass Pellets In Coal-Fired Power Plants
The power ministry has set a revised policy to use biomass pellets in coal-burning thermal power plants, encouraging use of agricultural waste that is otherwise burnt by farmers, causing air pollution.
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Coal Power Plant Pollution Could Lead To More Premature Deaths In 6 Cities, Finds Study
A recent study shows that the number of premature deaths due to coal-fired thermal power plant pollution has increased by 60 per cent in cities including Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi/NCT and Bengaluru.
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Air Quality Panel Asks 11 Thermal Plants Near Delhi To Co-Fire Biomass Pellets
Centre's air quality commission has directed 11 thermal power plants within 300-km radius of Delhi to co-fire biomass pellets with coal, saying this can utilise millions of tonnes of biomass, address issue of stubble burning and reduce air pollution
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EVs Produce Fewer Greenhouse Gases As Gasoline Vehicles: Study
The ICCT study has done a global comparison of the life cycle of greenhouse gas emissions of a combustion engine and electric vehicles.
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Coal Combustion Responsible For Almost 1 Lakh Deaths In India: Report
As hopes of a COVID-19 vaccine grow in the closing weeks of 2020, the Lancet medical journal has drawn attention to what Bill Gates and others say could be worse than the pandemic - climate change.
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"#SaveMollem, No to Coal": Why Goa Is Up In Arms And On The Streets
Goa is on the boil over three infrastructure projects - the expansion of a railway track and highway, and a new power line - that residents of the state believe will harm its pristine forests and pollute its picturesque towns with coal dust
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2 Dead, 4 Missing After Ash Leak From Reliance Power Plant In Madhya Pradesh
Two villagers have died and four are missingafter a breach in an artificial pond that stores toxic residue from a coal power plant run by Reliance Power in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli on Friday evening.
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Finance Commission Likely To Reject Rs 800 Billion Package To Cut Air Pollution: Report
India's Finance Commission has told the power ministry that its proposal to award utilities 835 billion rupees in incentives to install equipment to curb emissions is "unviable," a senior official at the ministry told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Over 5 Lakh People Died Due To Air pollution In 2016 In India: Report
More than five lakh people died prematurely in India in 2016 due to dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution and over 97,000 of the them died after being exposed to pollutants from coal burning, a new report revealed on Thursday.
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LNG's Climate Impact: A Cleaner Alternative Or Hidden Emitter?
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has positioned itself as a "transition" fuel to replace highly polluting coal. While LNG burns cleaner than coal, its climate impact is darkened by energy-intensive production and frequent leaks from gas fields.
-
Opinion: The Truth Behind Claims India Is World's Third-Largest Polluter
The big, global push to paint India as a climate bugbear has started taking shape. All fingers are pointing at India, criticisms are growing on New Delhi's energy policy and how it is apparently not in sync with global standards.
-
Delhi's Air Quality Deteriorates, Authorities Enforce Ban on Coal Usage
This action comes as part of the government's pollution control plan known as the 'Graded Response Action Plan' (GRAP) which is implemented in Delhi-NCR to combat air pollution during the winter season.
-
Delhi Factories On Coal, Other Polluting Fuels To Be Closed From Jan 1
The Centre's air quality panel on Wednesday said industries using unapproved fuels, including coal, in Delhi-NCR will be closed down straightaway from January 1 and heavy fines will be imposed on them.
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"No Diesel Generators, Increase Parking Fees": Air Quality Panel On Delhi
Use of diesel generators in Delhi must stop (except for emergencies), parking fees must increase by three-four times, and burning of coal and firewood cannot be allowed at hotels and open-air eateries, the Central Pollution Control Board said today.
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Beijing Shuts Roads, Playgrounds Amid Heavy Smog After China Coal Spike
Highways and school playgrounds in Beijing were closed Friday due to heavy pollution, as China ramps up coal production and faces scrutiny of its environmental record at make-or-break international climate talks.
-
Centre Tweaks Policy To Use Biomass Pellets In Coal-Fired Power Plants
The power ministry has set a revised policy to use biomass pellets in coal-burning thermal power plants, encouraging use of agricultural waste that is otherwise burnt by farmers, causing air pollution.
-
Coal Power Plant Pollution Could Lead To More Premature Deaths In 6 Cities, Finds Study
A recent study shows that the number of premature deaths due to coal-fired thermal power plant pollution has increased by 60 per cent in cities including Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi/NCT and Bengaluru.
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Air Quality Panel Asks 11 Thermal Plants Near Delhi To Co-Fire Biomass Pellets
Centre's air quality commission has directed 11 thermal power plants within 300-km radius of Delhi to co-fire biomass pellets with coal, saying this can utilise millions of tonnes of biomass, address issue of stubble burning and reduce air pollution
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EVs Produce Fewer Greenhouse Gases As Gasoline Vehicles: Study
The ICCT study has done a global comparison of the life cycle of greenhouse gas emissions of a combustion engine and electric vehicles.
-
Coal Combustion Responsible For Almost 1 Lakh Deaths In India: Report
As hopes of a COVID-19 vaccine grow in the closing weeks of 2020, the Lancet medical journal has drawn attention to what Bill Gates and others say could be worse than the pandemic - climate change.
-
"#SaveMollem, No to Coal": Why Goa Is Up In Arms And On The Streets
Goa is on the boil over three infrastructure projects - the expansion of a railway track and highway, and a new power line - that residents of the state believe will harm its pristine forests and pollute its picturesque towns with coal dust
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2 Dead, 4 Missing After Ash Leak From Reliance Power Plant In Madhya Pradesh
Two villagers have died and four are missingafter a breach in an artificial pond that stores toxic residue from a coal power plant run by Reliance Power in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli on Friday evening.
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Finance Commission Likely To Reject Rs 800 Billion Package To Cut Air Pollution: Report
India's Finance Commission has told the power ministry that its proposal to award utilities 835 billion rupees in incentives to install equipment to curb emissions is "unviable," a senior official at the ministry told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Over 5 Lakh People Died Due To Air pollution In 2016 In India: Report
More than five lakh people died prematurely in India in 2016 due to dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution and over 97,000 of the them died after being exposed to pollutants from coal burning, a new report revealed on Thursday.
