Draft Tar-Balls Management Rules 2026

In April 2026, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) issued a draft notification introducing the Tar-Balls Management Rules, 2026, aimed at regulating the handling, storage, transport, and disposal of tar-ball waste arising from oil spills.

Key Provisions

  • Cover generation, collection, storage, transport, treatment, disposal, and repurposing of tar-balls.
  • Polluters must pay for spills and damage.
  • States to treat tar ball pollution as a disaster.
  • Multiple agencies share management responsibility.
  • Steering committee to oversee implementation.
  • High-energy tar balls usable as cement fuel.

What are Tar-Balls?

  • Tar-balls are small, dark, sticky, or hardened blobs of weathered crude oil found floating on the ocean ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Public Policy