{"id":615034,"date":"2023-11-04T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=615034"},"modified":"2023-11-04T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T11:13:11","slug":"maha-pollution-control-board-asks-tata-power-to-halve-particulate-matter-emissions-at-plant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maha-pollution-control-board-asks-tata-power-to-halve-particulate-matter-emissions-at-plant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maha Pollution Control Board asks Tata Power to halve particulate matter emissions at plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Power on Friday said the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has requested it to halve the particulate matter emissions from its generating unit here to help curb pollution. &#8220;MPCB has asked Tata Power to explore the feasibility of reducing the particulate matter from the stack from the present permissible 100 Mg\/Nm3 to a more benign 50 Mg\/Nm3,&#8221; a spokesperson for the power utility said.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Power said Thursday&#8217;s news reports about it being asked to halve production to help reduce pollution are &#8220;factually incorrect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mumbai is witnessing very high air pollution despite its inherent advantage of being a coastal city.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have blamed the infrastructure and construction building activity and poor enforcement of regulations designed to curb pollution for the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Power on Friday said the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has requested it to halve the particulate matter emissions from its generating unit here to help curb pollution. &#8220;MPCB has asked Tata Power to explore the feasibility of reducing the particulate matter from the stack from the present permissible 100 Mg\/Nm3 to a more benign 50 Mg\/Nm3,&#8221; a spokesperson for the power utility said. Tata Power said Thursday&#8217;s news reports about it being asked to halve production to help reduce pollution are &#8220;factually incorrect&#8221;. Mumbai is witnessing very high air pollution despite its inherent advantage of being a coastal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615034","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}