The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released a notice regarding Measures to Reduce Methane Emissions. As per India’s third Biennial Update Report, India’s methane emissions in 2016 (excluding LULUCF) were 409 million tone CO2e of which, 73.96% was from Agriculture sector, 14.46% from Waste sector, 10.62% from Energy sector and 0.96% was…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released the notification on genset. The notification is applicable for all fuels and the power category slabs were revised to five from three. As per the general conditions of this notification, Genset engines and Gensets with the old standards can be supplied only till 30th June…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released Environment (Protection) Fourth Amendment Rules 2023. These new rules are for the addition of the new condition in Schedule I. The rule stated that In the Environment (Protection) Rules 1986, in schedule I, in the entries against serial number 88, in item “C. the General…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released Environment (Protection) Third Amendment Rules 2023. These new rules are for the revision of emission standards of particulate matter (PM) and SO2 for Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC) units. In the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, in Schedule-l, after serial number 116 in which these standards are…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules 2023. These new rules are for the revision of emission standards of particulate matter (PM) for industrial boilers. In the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, in Schedule-l,- (a) for serial number 70 in which these standards are mentioned is substituted by the…
MoEFCC releases a categorized list of power plants based on their proximity to populated areas in accordance with their April 2021 notification. This categorized list of power plants has been provided below. A task force was appointed for the categorization of 596 power plants based in India. The coal-based power plants have been divided into…