{"id":408724,"date":"2021-04-03T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T04:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408724"},"modified":"2021-04-03T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T04:44:38","slug":"india-pushes-back-deadline-for-coal-fired-utilities-to-adopt-new-emission-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-pushes-back-deadline-for-coal-fired-utilities-to-adopt-new-emission-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"India pushes back deadline for coal-fired utilities to adopt new emission norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The environment ministry has extended timelines for coal-based power plants to comply with emission norms by three to five years, and fixed penalties for non-compliance as against the earlier mandate of closure.<\/p>\n<p>Under the previous timeline, all coal-based power plants were to be in compliance by December 2022 or face closure. Giving in to demands by the power ministry, the environment ministry has also set a very low penalty rate for non-compliance. Environmentalists said the rate of penalties will neither serve as a deterrent nor provide the funds for taking remedial action to deal with the impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environment ministry has extended timelines for coal-based power plants to comply with emission norms by three to five years, and fixed penalties for non-compliance as against the earlier mandate of closure. Under the previous timeline, all coal-based power plants were to be in compliance by December 2022 or face closure. Giving in to demands by the power ministry, the environment ministry has also set a very low penalty rate for non-compliance. Environmentalists said the rate of penalties will neither serve as a deterrent nor provide the funds for taking remedial action to deal with the impacts.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408724","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=408724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}