{"id":660917,"date":"2026-05-30T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660917"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:47:55","slug":"india-to-mandate-isobutanol-diesel-blending-this-year-to-cut-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-mandate-isobutanol-diesel-blending-this-year-to-cut-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"India to mandate isobutanol-diesel blending this year to cut emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India may soon mandate blending isobutanol with diesel and issue new rules for truck-trailers to boost energy security and cut carbon emissions. Speaking at a CII summit on Friday, V. Umashankar, secretary at the ministry of road transport and highways, said the blending mandate is being taken very seriously and is expected to roll out later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBharat Petroleum is already undertaking strategic research for isobutanol blending with diesel. And the results are very encouraging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India may soon mandate blending isobutanol with diesel and issue new rules for truck-trailers to boost energy security and cut carbon emissions. Speaking at a CII summit on Friday, V. Umashankar, secretary at the ministry of road transport and highways, said the blending mandate is being taken very seriously and is expected to roll out later this year. \u201cBharat Petroleum is already undertaking strategic research for isobutanol blending with diesel. And the results are very encouraging.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660917","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=660917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660920,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660917\/revisions\/660920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}