Industries are the biggest polluter of the environment
Author: IANS
A recent study by three scientists on the adverse impact on air quality because of industrial emissions has cleared many long-standing misgivings. And, that includes the fact that industries are the biggest polluter of the environment. The authors discovered that other sources of air pollution like vehicle exhausts from burning of diesel, petrol and compressed natural gas, gases from thermal power plants, small scale industries including brick kilns, resuspended dust on the roads due to vehicle forest fires etc have been glossed over or not given their due importance. Half of India's SO2 emissions arise from thermal power plants and industrial activities add another third. Even agricultural activities produce two key pollutants namely ammonia (NH3) and nitrous oxide (N20) emissions