The Supreme Court has directed the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan to ban the use of pet coke and furnace oil in the industries from November 1.
- A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta asked the three states to ban the use of these pollution causing materials.
- Supreme Court has imposed a fine of Rs2 lakh on union environment ministry for not finalising pollution emission standards for industries using petcoke and furnace oil in the national capital region (NCR)
- Petcoke is a final carbon-rich solid material that derives from oil refining.
- It is a type of the group of fuels referred to as cokes.
- Petcoke is the coke that is derived from a final cracking process–a thermo-based chemical engineering process that splits long-chain hydrocarbons of petroleum into shorter chains
