Improving air quality: Supreme Court asks UP, Haryana, Rajasthan to ban pet coke in factories
Source: Indian Express, New Delhi, Date: , 2017
Source: Indian Express, New Delhi, Oct 25, 2017:- THE SUPREME Court on Tuesday directed Uttar Pradesh,
Haryana and Rajasthan to ban the use of pet coke and furnace oil in industries,
failing which, the court said, it will be forced to ban these material from
November 1. In its order on May 2, the court had directed the Ministry of
Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
to fix sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxide standards for these industries. It had
said that standards should be fixed on or before June 30.The bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and
Deepak Gupta also fined the MoEF Rs 2 lakh for delay in drawing up pollution
emission standards for industries using pet coke and furnace oil in NCR.