{"id":270125,"date":"2019-04-22T05:57:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T05:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=270125"},"modified":"2019-04-22T05:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T05:57:51","slug":"cutting-household-fuel-use-may-save-2-7-lakh-lives-annually-in-india-iit-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cutting-household-fuel-use-may-save-2-7-lakh-lives-annually-in-india-iit-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting household fuel use may save 2.7 lakh lives annually in India: IIT Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India could make a major dent in air pollution and save about 270,000 lives a year by curbing emissions from dirty household fuels such as wood, dung, coal and kerosene, according to a study led by researchers from IIT Delhi.Eliminating emissions from these sources &#8212; without any changes to industrial or vehicle emissions &#8212; would bring the average outdoor air pollution levels below the country&#8217;s air quality standard, the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows. <\/p>\n<p>Mitigating the use of household fuels could also reduce air pollution-related deaths in the country by about 13 per cent, which is equivalent to saving about 270,000 lives a year, said researchers, including Sagnik Dey of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India could make a major dent in air pollution and save about 270,000 lives a year by curbing emissions from dirty household fuels such as wood, dung, coal and kerosene, according to a study led by researchers from IIT Delhi.Eliminating emissions from these sources &#8212; without any changes to industrial or vehicle emissions &#8212; would bring the average outdoor air pollution levels below the country&#8217;s air quality standard, the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows. Mitigating the use of household fuels could also reduce air pollution-related deaths in the country by about 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}