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An Overview of the Adverse Health Impacts of Chemicals Associated with Petrochemical Industries and Across the Life Span of Plastics. The petrochemical industry, once hailed as the harbinger of progress and innovation, now finds itself at the epicentre of critical global discourse. The petrochemical...

Energy General GPT (Global Plastics Treaty) Petrochemicals Plastics Publications

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April 1, 2024

Om Prakash Singh

Energy security or plastic profits?

Om Prakash Singh Fossil fuel and chemical industries’ interests are influencing India’s positions in various multilateral environmental and trade agreements related to climate, plastics, and chemicals. India announced a 20 per cent capacity expansion over the next five years, ostensibly to meet the ...

Coverage Energy General Oil and gas Plastics

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March 21, 2024

Dipanjan Sinha

Fish and Foul

Where have all the fish gone? Many reasons are ascribed to the low catch. But most blame it on the industries in the belt We have been here in Jhikurkhali for generations,” says Sheikh Asgar Ali, 43. He continues, “But now, we have had to quit the river.” It has been two years since Ali stopped taki...

Coverage Energy General Petrochemicals

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March 5, 2024

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

Neither New Nor Renewable

Analyzing why the MNRE should scrap the subsidy for waste-to-energy incineration plants. “Destructors”, “incinerators” and “waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration” all mean the same thing – indiscriminate burning of garbage! Having a history of about one and a half centuries, WTE incinerators have...

Energy General WTE(Waste to Energy)

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February 22, 2024

Fouziya Tehzeeb, Karthik Gunasekar, Benisha BM

Panipat Refinery: Powering Health and Environmental Catastrophe

“If our crops get damaged, and our cattle are failing to reproduce, one can easily imagine what this refinery must be doing to humans here”, said Satpal Singh, the ex-sarpanch of Singhpora village in Panipat. The Naptha cracker plant of Panipat refinery near Bal Jattan Village Almost al...

Energy General Oil and gas

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March 21, 2024

Fouziya Tehzeeb

Are the Laterite Plateaus of Ratnagiri auctioned for Refinery ‘Wastelands’?

William D’Souza, a 55-year old farmer from Kuthethur, Mangalore was busy mixing cattle feed when we arrived at his doorsteps. Around 25 km from the bustling city of Mangalore, Kuthethur is a lush green village with thick vegetation. On the way to William’s house the idyllic view gets blocked by the...

Energy General Oil and gas Petrochemicals

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February 14, 2024

Dipanjan Sinha

Dhapa: Plastic fumes from Kolkata’s largest landfill threaten locals’ lives

According to the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, the concentration of particulate matter at the Dhapa site is more than four times higher than it should be. “We are so used to getting throat and eye irritations that we have stopped caring. I just wash my eyes every few hours,” says Aneesh Molla...

Coverage Plastics Research Fellowships

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February 7, 2024

Jitendra Choubey

Perils of banking on fossil fuels

State Bank of India, Axis Bank and Bank of Baroda are the three banks from India that are open to doing business in coal. A new report shows that nine major Asian banks, including three of India, are open to doing business in coal – the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. These three banks are State Bank ...

Coal Coverage Energy

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January 23, 2024

CFA Admin

Experts & Activists Demand Immediate Decarbonisation of Energy Sector

Chennai, January 19, 2024: “The issue of energy and climate havoc are very complex and have been approached in a reductive way. That’s why we have not moved towards real solutions,” noted environmentalist and climate activist Dr. Vandana Shiva said in her keynote address at the 5th annual Energy Fin...

EFCI 2023 General Press Releases

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January 19, 2024

The Hindu

Nexus of energy and food is where the climate battle is currently, says Vandana Shiva

Speaking at the inaugural session of the 5th Energy Finance Conference in Chennai, she says agricultural systems that use more external energy will not be able to deal with the changing patterns of food production due to climate adversities. The issues of energy and climate change are individually c...

Coverage EFCI 2023 Energy

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TOXIC TRAITS

Energy security or plastic profits?

Fish and Foul

Neither New Nor Renewable

Panipat Refinery: Powering Health and Environmental Catastrophe

Are the Laterite Plateaus of Ratnagiri auctioned for Refinery ‘Wastelands’?

Dhapa: Plastic fumes from Kolkata’s largest landfill threaten locals’ lives

Perils of banking on fossil fuels

Experts & Activists Demand Immediate Decarbonisation of Energy Sector

Nexus of energy and food is where the climate battle is currently, says Vandana Shiva

TOXIC TRAITS

Energy security or plastic profits?

Fish and Foul

Neither New Nor Renewable

Panipat Refinery: Powering Health and Environmental Catastrophe

Are the Laterite Plateaus of Ratnagiri auctioned for Refinery ‘Wastelands’?

Dhapa: Plastic fumes from Kolkata’s largest landfill threaten locals’ lives

Perils of banking on fossil fuels

Experts & Activists Demand Immediate Decarbonisation of Energy Sector

Nexus of energy and food is where the climate battle is currently, says Vandana Shiva