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Pollution regulator threatens to shut 14 thermal plants over emission norms The pollution watchdog has asked thermal stations in six states to respond within 15 days why these plants should not be closed down Current Affairs :Taking a severe perspective on warm force stations’ inability to satisfy outflow guidelines, the Central Pollution Control Board (CBCB) has given admonitions to 14 plants across six conditions of the nation. In a notification dated January 31, a day prior to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman implied in her Budget 2020 discourse that coal-terminated force stations neglecting to fulfill guidelines may be closed down, the contamination guard dog has solicited the administrators from these 14 warm stations to react inside 15 days why they ought not be shut down. In her Budget discourse on February 1, Sitharaman had said in Parliament: “For the warm force plants which are old and whose carbon emanation levels are high, we suggest that utilities running...