{"id":361196,"date":"2020-07-04T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T06:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361196"},"modified":"2020-07-04T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T06:48:08","slug":"germany-is-first-major-economy-to-phase-out-coal-and-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germany-is-first-major-economy-to-phase-out-coal-and-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN: German lawmakers have finalized the country&#8217;s long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn&#8217;t ambitious enough and free marketeers criticize as a waste of taxpayers&#8217; money.<\/p>\n<p>Bills approved by both houses of parliament Friday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 and spending some 40 billion euros ($45 billion) to help affected regions cope with the transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN: German lawmakers have finalized the country&#8217;s long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn&#8217;t ambitious enough and free marketeers criticize as a waste of taxpayers&#8217; money. Bills approved by both houses of parliament Friday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038 and spending some 40 billion euros ($45 billion) to help affected regions cope with the transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-361196","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\/361196","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}