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Thursday, August 28, 2025
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Topic: Fossil fuels

‘Higher capacity turbines, strengthening infra’ — how India can meet its wind energy targets

India is set to scrap e-reverse auction process for wind, which many felt led to 'unhealthy competition'. Experts say it’s 1 of many steps needed to rejuvenate stagnating sector.

Cigarette ads were banned decades ago. Let’s do the same for fossil fuels

You might say that a flight to a sunny beach in Mexico won't put the lives of others at risk. But there's a collective action problem here.

Fossil fuel subsidy 9 times higher than for clean energy, says study on India’s net-zero goal

Study by think tanks International Institute for Sustainable Development and Council on Energy, Environment and Water released 31 May.

Power outage risks increase as India’s coal stockpiles plunge to 3-year low

Heavy rains in mining regions are worsening coal supply crisis. The dwindling supplies also come at a time when electricity consumption has been strong due to revival in economic activity.

How Netherlands plans to move to zero-emission deliveries by 2025

The Netherlands government is giving delivery firms cash help to buy or lease electric vehicles.

Businessman writes ‘practical playbook’ for affordable shift to ‘Fossil Free’ world

Written by Sumant Sinha & published by HarperCollins India, 'Fossil Free' will be released on 12 November on ThePrint's SoftCover.

Capitalism caused the current climate crisis, it must also be the solution

Perhaps instead of trying to make the climate subservient to the needs of expanding gross domestic product, we need to cut our economic coat according to our atmospheric cloth.

The world has a methane emissions problem and it’s worse than what scientists thought

New research suggests fossil-fuel production may be responsible for much more atmospheric methane than scientists previously thought.

Air pollution costs world $8 billion a day, Greenpeace says

India bears one of the highest economic costs of pollution at an estimated $150 billion every year. China and US are impacted more at $900 billion and $600 billion respectively.

India is coal’s brightest star but it’s facing a burning question

Coal-fired power has long failed in terms of health & climate impacts, but now its raw economics are collapsing too. Even the govt can’t keep it going for long.

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.