Reining in polluting power plants: Delhi air not getting clean anytime soon

India wants more electricity and needs more power plants to get it, but the government is not enforcing the pollution standards it needs to on these plants.

The result is that north India’s air is becoming more toxic with little hope for improvement unless the government cracks down on polluting power plants and enforces a variety of other pollution-control measures.

India’s sulphur dioxide (SO₂) emissions–due to burning of coal–increased 50% while China’s emissions fell 75% since 2007, according to a study by the University of