Stubble burning crisis: Why thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR have been slow in adopting biomass co-firing

Only three plants have reported higher quantities of biomass co-firing since December 2022 till August 2023

Power plant resurrected

ASHES TO DUMP

BRAZIL

Lights out in Hong Kong to protest polluted air

Wealthiest oil producing countries must phase out oil and gas by 2034, poorest by 2050

The world will exhaust the carbon budget for 1.5°C warming in a decade at current rate of emissions

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 28, 2023)

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

Fly ash dyke breach in Singrauli points to a bigger problem of fly ash disposal

Two people have died as a result of the breach in the fly ash dyke of Reliance’s Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project in Singrauli

Public money being infused into new coal projects in India: Report

This comes at a time when private financers are increasing finding it hard to invest in the sector, it says

SC demands Centre’s response on implementation of emission norms for coal power plants

CSE's analysis has shown that the power sector is all set to avoid complying with the new emission norms

Doomed tomb

The future of the Taj Mahal is once again at stake because, the environment-versus-industry debate notwithstanding, pollution levels in Agra are …

MoEF&CC slows down wheels in motion for biomass co-firing in coal-based thermal power plants

Less than 1% coal replaced by biomass co-firing in Delhi-NCR, intense demand and supply gap, finds study by CSE

Energy in news on May 4

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Power problems

Gasping on flyash

Burgeoning flyash dumps in Kolaghat spread silicosis

Food for thought

INDIA

Messing around with regulations

The plot thickens

Winter haze caused by thermal plants, not biomass burning

Last resort

Petition filed against NPCL in Udupi

Growth might dry up

GDP growth is not a fool-proof measure against climate change

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 15, 2019)

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

In the Parliament on March 11, 2016

Here’s a round-up of today’s debates and reports on environmental and developmental issues

As deadly as thermal power

Newly flooded reservoirs, which store water for hydroelectric plants, sometimes generate large amounts of greenhouse gases, comparable to those …

As told to Parliament (March 23, 2022): Thermal plants coal stock at 39% of normative requirement

All that was discussed in the House through the day