{"id":570010,"date":"2023-04-17T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570010"},"modified":"2023-04-17T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T05:12:10","slug":"despite-lpg-piped-gas-coverage-15-of-sulphur-co-in-mumbais-air-due-to-kerosene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-lpg-piped-gas-coverage-15-of-sulphur-co-in-mumbais-air-due-to-kerosene\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite LPG &amp; piped gas coverage, 15% of sulphur, CO in Mumbai&#8217;s air due to kerosene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Even though the state is inching close to a kerosene-free status, the existing supply of the combustible oil is far from meeting the Centre&#8217;s directive of bringing down the sulphur content from 2.5% (2,500 parts per million) to 0.10% (100 parts per million), a reduction of 96%. As a result, up to 15% of the sulphur and carbon monoxide load in Mumbai&#8217;s air is due to domestic burning &#8211; mainly kerosene used in slums and surrounding rural areas &#8211; forcing Mumbaikars to breathe the poisonous gas.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been almost four years since the central environment ministry&#8217;s notification directed petroleum companies to bring down sulphur content in kerosene. However, only a miniscule quota of kerosene alloted to the army has been converted to the expected sulphur standards, say activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Even though the state is inching close to a kerosene-free status, the existing supply of the combustible oil is far from meeting the Centre&#8217;s directive of bringing down the sulphur content from 2.5% (2,500 parts per million) to 0.10% (100 parts per million), a reduction of 96%. As a result, up to 15% of the sulphur and carbon monoxide load in Mumbai&#8217;s air is due to domestic burning &#8211; mainly kerosene used in slums and surrounding rural areas &#8211; forcing Mumbaikars to breathe the poisonous gas. It&#8217;s been almost four years since the central environment ministry&#8217;s notification directed petroleum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570010","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}