{"id":2911,"date":"2010-11-17T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2010-11-17T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:12:20","slug":"dirty-coal-clean-future-magazine-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=2911","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Coal, Clean Future &#8211; Magazine &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;The proposition that coal could constitute any kind of \u201chope\u201d or solution, or that a major environmentalist action plan could be called \u201cCoal Without Carbon,\u201d as one I will describe is indeed named\u2014this goes beyond seeming interestingly contrarian to seeming simply wrong. For the coal industry, the term \u201cclean coal\u201d is an advertising slogan; for many in the environmental movement, it is an insulting oxymoron. But two ideas that underlie the term are taken with complete seriousness by businesses, scientists, and government officials in China and America, and are the basis of the most extensive cooperation now under way between the countries on climate issues. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2010\/10\/dirty-coal-clean-future\/8307\/\">Dirty Coal, Clean Future &#8211; Magazine &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;The proposition that coal could constitute any kind of \u201chope\u201d or solution, or that a major environmentalist action plan could be called \u201cCoal Without Carbon,\u201d as one I will describe is indeed named\u2014this goes beyond seeming interestingly contrarian to seeming simply wrong. For the coal industry, the term \u201cclean coal\u201d is an advertising slogan; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}