{"id":378700,"date":"2020-10-16T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T03:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378700"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:22:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T03:52:01","slug":"gopal-rai-urges-epca-cpcb-to-shut-11-coal-fired-power-plants-near-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gopal-rai-urges-epca-cpcb-to-shut-11-coal-fired-power-plants-near-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gopal Rai urges EPCA, CPCB to shut 11 coal-fired power plants near Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday urged the Central Pollution Control Board and a Supreme Court-mandated pollution control authority to shut the 11 coal-fired power plants operating within 300 kilometres of Delhi within a week. <\/p>\n<p>He said the Delhi government has been making all efforts to bring pollution levels down, &#8220;but we become helpless when pollution from neighbouring states affects the city&#8217;s air quality&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>A layer of haze hung over Delhi and its neighbouring areas on Thursday and the air quality slipped to &#8220;very poor&#8221; levels. Delhi recorded an air quality index (AQI) of 312. The last time the air quality hit such a poor level was in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday urged the Central Pollution Control Board and a Supreme Court-mandated pollution control authority to shut the 11 coal-fired power plants operating within 300 kilometres of Delhi within a week. He said the Delhi government has been making all efforts to bring pollution levels down, &#8220;but we become helpless when pollution from neighbouring states affects the city&#8217;s air quality&#8221;. A layer of haze hung over Delhi and its neighbouring areas on Thursday and the air quality slipped to &#8220;very poor&#8221; levels. Delhi recorded an air quality index (AQI) of 312. The last time the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378700","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}