IN December 2016, India’s apex environmental body Environment Pollution
Control Authority (EPCA) released a 14-page study about the ill-effects of
Furnace Oil (FO or HFO) and petcoke on the air quality of NCR region, entitled
“Mandating acceptable fuel to be used in NCR for air pollution control”. The
EPCA body comprises of members from civil services, academia, industry and NGO
representatives, among them being Sunita Narayan, Director General Centre of
Science and Environment (CSE), India’s leading environmental NGO that made the
highly publicised findings of pesticide residues in popular aerated drinks.
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