The Odisha government on Saturday decided to close down the sponge iron plants failing to install electro-static precipitators (ESP) to stop pollution by end of June, said forest and environment minister Debi Prasad Mishra.
He said of the 107 sponge iron plants in the state, so far thirty percent of the units are creating pollution and have failed to replace their existing gas cleaning plants to
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/polluting-sponge-iron-units-be-closed-june-30
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/pragtivadi-bhubaneswar
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/orissa
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pollution
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/state-pollution-control-board-spcb
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fly-ash
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/thermal-power-plants
