{"id":466615,"date":"2022-02-07T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T03:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466615"},"modified":"2022-02-07T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T03:50:04","slug":"air-quality-panel-issues-fresh-directions-to-industries-in-ncr-to-switch-to-png","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-quality-panel-issues-fresh-directions-to-industries-in-ncr-to-switch-to-png\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality panel issues fresh directions to industries in NCR to switch to PNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has reiterated its push for industries in the National Capital Region (NCR) to switch to Piped Natural Gas (PNG) or biomass fuel.<\/p>\n<p>In an order issued recently, the CAQM said that industries in the NCR which have not shifted to PNG or biomass fuel, despite the availability of natural gas infrastructure and supply, are to switch over completely by September 30, \u201cfailing which such industries shall be closed down and not permitted to schedule operations thereafter.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Early in December, the commission had restricted operations of such industries not running on PNG or cleaner fuel to eight hours per day for five days a week, on account of deteriorating air quality in the NCR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has reiterated its push for industries in the National Capital Region (NCR) to switch to Piped Natural Gas (PNG) or biomass fuel. In an order issued recently, the CAQM said that industries in the NCR which have not shifted to PNG or biomass fuel, despite the availability of natural gas infrastructure and supply, are to switch over completely by September 30, \u201cfailing which such industries shall be closed down and not permitted to schedule operations thereafter.\u201d Early in December, the commission had restricted operations of such industries not running on PNG or cleaner [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466615","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=466615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}