Business Standard: New Delhi: Friday, June 09, 2017.
Disregarding
new environment regulations, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has given
more than 300 thermal power plants two to five-year reprieve from adhering to
the strict air pollution standards that come into force this year. The CEA has
set in place a roadmap for the plants to install essential pollution abatement
technology earliest by 2020 instead of doing so by end 2017. The new
environmental regulations requiring the installation of this technology kick in
from December 2017 for all existing thermal power plants. For the stressed
thermal power sector this implies a.....