{"id":405320,"date":"2021-03-17T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=405320"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:31:34","slug":"the-worlds-three-biggest-coal-users-get-ready-to-burn-even-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/the-worlds-three-biggest-coal-users-get-ready-to-burn-even-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s three biggest coal users get ready to burn even more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s three biggest consumers of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, are getting ready to boost usage so much that it\u2019ll almost be as if the pandemic-induced drop in emissions never happened.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. power plants are going to consume 16% more coal this year than in 2020, and then another 3% in 2022, the Energy Information Administration said last week. China and India, which together account for almost two-thirds of demand, have no plans to cut back in the near term.<\/p>\n<p>This means higher emissions, a setback for climate action ahead of international talks this year intended to raise the level of ambition from commitments under the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s three biggest consumers of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, are getting ready to boost usage so much that it\u2019ll almost be as if the pandemic-induced drop in emissions never happened. U.S. power plants are going to consume 16% more coal this year than in 2020, and then another 3% in 2022, the Energy Information Administration said last week. China and India, which together account for almost two-thirds of demand, have no plans to cut back in the near term. This means higher emissions, a setback for climate action ahead of international talks this year intended to raise the [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405320","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=405320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}