{"id":447027,"date":"2021-11-02T09:22:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447027"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:28:13","slug":"once-a-leading-polluter-the-uk-is-now-trying-to-lead-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/once-a-leading-polluter-the-uk-is-now-trying-to-lead-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Once a leading polluter, the UK is now trying to lead on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Britain prepares to host a landmark climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, this week, the milestones of its own evolution to a more climate-friendly economy are on vivid display along the railroad line from London to Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Near Gainsborough, a river town 150 miles north of the capital, one of Britain\u2019s last coal-fired power plants still spews carbon dioxide and other gases into the air. Another 150 miles north, off the coast of the seaside port of Blyth, the slender blades of five turbines in an offshore wind farm turn lazily in the breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Britain prepares to host a landmark climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, this week, the milestones of its own evolution to a more climate-friendly economy are on vivid display along the railroad line from London to Scotland. Near Gainsborough, a river town 150 miles north of the capital, one of Britain\u2019s last coal-fired power plants still spews carbon dioxide and other gases into the air. Another 150 miles north, off the coast of the seaside port of Blyth, the slender blades of five turbines in an offshore wind farm turn lazily in the breeze.<\/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-447027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447027","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=447027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}