{"id":411775,"date":"2021-04-24T08:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T02:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411775"},"modified":"2021-04-24T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T03:14:34","slug":"getting-real-about-coal-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/getting-real-about-coal-and-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting real about coal and climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChange is coming, whether we seek it or not.\u201d So declares a remarkable document titled \u201cPreserving Coal Country,\u201d released Monday by the United Mine Workers of America, in which the union \u2014 which at its peak represented half a million workers \u2014 accepts the reality that coal isn\u2019t coming back. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, it argues, the goal should be \u201ca true energy transition that will enhance opportunities for miners, their families and their communities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to see this kind of realism. Remember, back in 2016 Donald Trump promised that he would restore coal to its former greatness, reopening shuttered mines \u2014 and voters in coal country believed him. Many of them probably still imagine that something like that is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChange is coming, whether we seek it or not.\u201d So declares a remarkable document titled \u201cPreserving Coal Country,\u201d released Monday by the United Mine Workers of America, in which the union \u2014 which at its peak represented half a million workers \u2014 accepts the reality that coal isn\u2019t coming back. Instead, it argues, the goal should be \u201ca true energy transition that will enhance opportunities for miners, their families and their communities.\u201d It\u2019s good to see this kind of realism. Remember, back in 2016 Donald Trump promised that he would restore coal to its former greatness, reopening shuttered mines \u2014 [&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":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411775","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=411775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}