India’s Supreme Court just scrapped over 200 coal mining licences. This includes almost all licences issued in the past 17 years!
The court was horrified by the corruption it found. Mining companies and government officials were working together to make themselves rich at everyone’s expense. And we all paid the price too: coal is the world’s number one source of climate-wrecking CO2.
This is great news for the people of Mahan, fighting to save their forest from a giant coal mine. Essar, the mining company that wants to destroy the forest, will have to give up or apply for a new licence.
More than 90,000 of us signed the petition to save Mahan Forest.
This isn’t just a body blow to the coal industry. It’s an opportunity for India to choose renewables over coal, bringing clean power to the 300 million people still without electricity.
