{"id":408807,"date":"2021-04-03T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T05:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408807"},"modified":"2021-04-03T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T05:28:20","slug":"environment-ministry-sets-new-deadlines-for-thermal-power-plants-to-meet-emission-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/environment-ministry-sets-new-deadlines-for-thermal-power-plants-to-meet-emission-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Ministry sets new deadlines for thermal power plants to meet emission norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The union environment ministry has extended timelines for complying emission norms by coal-based power plants 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 union environment ministry has extended timelines for complying emission norms by coal-based power plants 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-408807","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\/408807","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=408807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}