{"id":28351,"date":"2018-10-24T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28351"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:28:39","slug":"sc-lashes-out-at-centre-on-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-lashes-out-at-centre-on-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"SC lashes out at Centre on pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/sc-lashes-out-at-centre-on-pollution\/article24436016.ece\">SC lashes out at Centre on pollution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Supreme Court lashed out at the Union Ministry of Environment on pollution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The Supreme Court\u2019s Bench was hearing the issue of ban on import of petcoke .<\/p>\n<p>3. Petcoke is a toxic fuel used in hazardous industries.<\/p>\n<p>4. The court has been urging the government to move forward towards a nationwide ban on the use of petcoke and furnace oil to power up industries to fight pollution.<\/p>\n<p>5. The court last year ordered a ban on the industrial use of petcoke and furnace oil in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan.<\/p>\n<p>6. The ban on use came after an EPCA Report, including the ban on sale, distribution and use in the NCR. Their use is already prohibited in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>7. Petcoke is imported from countries like the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n<p>8. However, these countries have already stopped using them after due consideration of its harmful effects on human and environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC lashes out at Centre on pollution News: The Supreme Court lashed out at the Union Ministry of Environment on pollution. Important facts: 2. The Supreme Court\u2019s Bench was hearing the issue of ban on import of petcoke . 3. Petcoke is a toxic fuel used in hazardous industries. 4. The court has been urging&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-lashes-out-at-centre-on-pollution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC lashes out at Centre on pollution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703500044},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}