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As India struggles to breathe, over 300 coal power plants are violating air pollution laws and MoEFCC does nothing.
As of December 7, more than 300 coal power plants across the country are still violating the emission standard norms that were given by the MoEFCC back in 2015. These norms were to come into effect by the 7th of December 2017. But despite being given two years to implement these norms, the Ministry of…
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With Less Than 24 Hours to Go, Citizen Activists Say “Enough Is Enough”
Two years ago, coal power plants were given new emission norms to follow. The deadline has come. Tomorrow, on the 7th of December 2017, all power plants must have complied with the norms.
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Greenpeace India demands Regional Action Plan to control air pollution in Uttar Pradesh
Cities of Uttar Pradesh are none-too-better-off than Delhi when it comes to alarming levels of air pollution from Ghaziabad to Varanasi
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Boom and Bust 2017 – Tracking the global coal plant pipeline
A Greenpeace report explaining how construction is currently frozen in over 100 locations in China and India.
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India’s Efforts to Tackle Air Pollution – Mere Tokenism
Thermal power plants are one of the major causes of air pollution in the country, especially in the Indo Gangetic Plain region (IGP). In December 2015, the Indian Government came out with a strict emission notification to control emissions from thermal power plants. According to the rules, all power plants are required to install emission…
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India’s Efforts to Tackle Air Pollution – Mere Tokenism
According to the rules, all power plants are required to install emission control equipments by the end of 2017. Reports indicate that, most power plants are yet to take the basic steps towards compliance
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Not just Delhi, air in most Indian cities hazardous – Greenpeace India report
Damning information obtained by Greenpeace India through online reports and Right to Information applications from State Pollution Control Boards across India, shows that none of the Indian cities comply with standards prescribed by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
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Coal and dirty development in China & India leads to 1.6 million extra air pollution deaths a year
Millions around the world are dying from polluted air, but as countries get richer they usually clean up their air.
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Join Greenpeace India for a Clean Air Nation
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.” If Swami Vivekananda was still around, he might have repeated those famous words to get us to deal with air pollution. Delhi has been choking on toxic air, and alarmed residents want solutions. Our leaders and officials have started scrambling around to find quick remedies.…
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Out Of Sight – How coal burning advances India’s Air Pollution Crisis
This study emphasises on the urgent need to comply with the thermal power plant emission standards announced in December 2015.