{"id":579453,"date":"2023-05-26T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=579453"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T06:14:33","slug":"indias-workers-are-trapped-in-a-vicious-cycle-of-coal-and-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-workers-are-trapped-in-a-vicious-cycle-of-coal-and-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s workers are trapped in a vicious cycle of coal and heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing by vast, ash-colored coalfields, miner Rabi Behera expressed few doubts about the job at hand. To cope with increasingly brutal temperatures, India has to keep its power grid standing\u2014 and for now that means digging up ever expanding quantities of the dirtiest fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to survive without electricity during the summer,\u201d he said, giant trucks rumbling past in clouds of black dust. \u201cOur production target is raised every year. Every year we\u2019re producing more coal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, this year has been less blistering than 2022, when temperatures in New Delhi climbed past 49C (120F), but February still broke records, April saw lethal conditions and forecasters issued warnings for this month, when pre-monsoon heat tends to peak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing by vast, ash-colored coalfields, miner Rabi Behera expressed few doubts about the job at hand. To cope with increasingly brutal temperatures, India has to keep its power grid standing\u2014 and for now that means digging up ever expanding quantities of the dirtiest fossil fuel. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to survive without electricity during the summer,\u201d he said, giant trucks rumbling past in clouds of black dust. \u201cOur production target is raised every year. Every year we\u2019re producing more coal.\u201d So far, this year has been less blistering than 2022, when temperatures in New Delhi climbed past 49C (120F), but February still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}