On Burning Ground: The Human Cost
Of India’s Push to Produce More Coal

Yale e360
By Yale Environment 360Mar 15, 2016, 9:00 am31 pts
As part of India's modernization program, Prime Minister Narenda Modi has called for doubling the nation’s coal production by 2020. For the villages in the Jharia coalfield, which is frequently shrouded in smoke from underground fires, the government’s plans have only increased the pressures and dangers of…

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