{"id":64134,"date":"2024-05-17T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/targeting-indias-most-harmful-power-plants-could-slash-mortality"},"modified":"2024-05-17T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T05:00:28","slug":"targeting-indias-most-harmful-power-plants-could-slash-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64134","title":{"rendered":"Targeting India\u2019s most harmful power plants could slash mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds about a quarter of health burden comes from power stations that generate just 3% of country\u2019s electricity<\/p>\n<p>India struggles with some of the worst air pollution in the world. Now scientists have worked out which of the country\u2019s power plants are the worst in pollution terms, narrowing it down to 30 units which are responsible for about a quarter of the mortality burden.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity generation accounts for nearly three-quarters of India\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/iea.blob.core.windows.net\/assets\/a72a7ffa-c5f2-4ed8-a2bf-eb035931d95c\/Coal_2023.pdf\">enormous coal <\/a>use. But despite <a href=\"https:\/\/cpcb.nic.in\/displaypdf.php?id=SW5kdXN0cnktU3BlY2lmaWMtU3RhbmRhcmRzL0VmZmx1ZW50L1RQUC5wZGY=\">regulations set in 2015<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/apr\/19\/clean-up-indian-coal-fired-power-plants-could-saved-lives\">less than 5%<\/a> of India\u2019s power plants have modern systems to <a href=\"https:\/\/cea.nic.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/tprm\/2021\/08\/A_review_report_on_new_SO2_norms.pdf\">clean up air pollutants<\/a> including sulphur and mercury.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/targeting-indias-most-harmful-power-plants-could-slash-mortality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds about a quarter of health burden comes from power stations that generate just 3% of country\u2019s electricityIndia struggles with some of the worst air pollution in the world. Now scientists have worked out which of the country\u2019s power plants a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,589,493,65,492,62,466,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-india","category-pollution","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64135,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64134\/revisions\/64135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}