Coal-fired plants around New Delhi running despite missing emissions deadline


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  • Wednesday, 01 Jan 2020

FILE PHOTO: Buildings are engulfed in fog in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Coal-fired utilities around New Delhi were still operating on Wednesday despite threats from the Indian authorities to close them down if they had not installed equipment to cut emissions of sulphur oxides by the end of the year.

Three senior executives at companies operating power plants around New Delhi and facing an end-2019 deadline said they had not received direction on whether they could continue to run the plants having not installed the kit.

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