{"id":503693,"date":"2022-07-07T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T03:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=503693"},"modified":"2022-07-07T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:19:37","slug":"eu-lawmakers-back-natural-gas-nuclear-energy-as-sustainable-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-lawmakers-back-natural-gas-nuclear-energy-as-sustainable-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmakers back natural gas, nuclear energy as sustainable activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to include natural gas and nuclear in the bloc&#8217;s list of sustainable activities.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission earlier this year made the controversial proposal as part of its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as greenwashing.<\/p>\n<p>EU legislators rejected an objection to the proposal in a 328-278 vote.<\/p>\n<p>The green labeling system from the European Commission, the EU&#8217;s executive arm, defines what qualifies as an investment in sustainable energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to include natural gas and nuclear in the bloc&#8217;s list of sustainable activities. The European Commission earlier this year made the controversial proposal as part of its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as greenwashing. EU legislators rejected an objection to the proposal in a 328-278 vote. The green labeling system from the European Commission, the EU&#8217;s executive arm, defines what qualifies as an investment in sustainable energy.<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503693","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=503693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}