Sooty image

Moneymakers

Breathe metal

COAL TROUBLE

Green proposal

Curbs and pitfalls

Environment ministry panel exempts public hearing for companies seeking coal mine expansion

Doing away with public hearing will seriously undermine the EIA notification in letter and spirit

Ash-less coal

An Indian scientist has developed a process to refine low-grade coal to prevent its residue of fly ash

As clean as coal

India dithers on cleaner coal technologies. But it has the technology to help the thermal power sector clean up its act

NTPC records 148% growth in coal production from its mines compared to April last year: Power ministry

NTPC recorded 23.2 million tonnes of coal production last financial year (FY) 2023 against 14.02 million tonnes of FY 2022  

Coal-run power plants cause 23,000 premature deaths in EU; Asia under scanner

Pollution triggered nearly 12,000 new cases of chronic bronchitis and over half-a-million asthma attacks in children in 2013

Green coal: Can it tackle twin challenges of reducing emission, waste management?

NTPC has recently opened a green coal manufacturing plant in Varanasi; plants are planned in Madurai and Bhopal as well

The cause and the effect

Photography>> Fossil Fuel • China

Made in India

Technology uses indigenous coal to make activated carbon

Occupational hazard

Coal mining grounded

INDONESIA

Deja vu

Coal based thermal power plants come back to haunt villages in Udupi district, Karnataka

Deception, thy name is...

Petrol from coal

New liquefying technique works for high-grade coal,

South Asia

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 18, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 11, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Incentives needed for cleaner energy from thermal power sources

The Electricity Act, 2003 needs to address the issue of incentivising adoption of cleaner fuels to generate power

10 killed in mine collapse in Jharkhand

Just two days after the state observed the 40th year of India's worst mining tragedy in Chasnala, a coal mine in Lalmatia collapsed trapping more …