An alarming pattern of state-sanctioned violence associated with the country’s transition to low-carbon and fossil fuel energy sources is discovered in a recent investigation of India’s energy industry by Mukul Kumar. His study, published in Climate and Development, thoroughly examines 121 energy projects, 64 of which are coal-based and 57 of which are hydropower-based. It finds that a large percentage of the hydropower projects (40.3%) and more than half of the coal projects (51.5%) are plagued by violent incidents, arrests, and mass mobilization. Kumar, an assistant professor of urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Irvine, presents … Continue reading 51.5% Coal Projects Marred by Violence: India’s Energy Transition in Spotlight