{"id":3097,"date":"2014-12-16T14:15:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2014-12-16T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:15:42","slug":"newspapers-complicit-in-selling-phony-war-on-coal-desmogblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3097","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers Complicit In Selling Phony \u201cWar On Coal\u201d | DeSmogBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newspapers Complicit In Selling Phony \u201cWar On Coal\u201d | DeSmogBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S.<\/span>\u00a0newspapers are helping conservatives push their misleading \u201cwar on coal\u201d narrative, according to a new report.

There are a number of reasons why thetide has turned against the coal industry<\/a>around the globe. Mining and burning coal for energy poses huge risks for human health and the environment, for instance, mainly due to the vast amounts of air and water pollution created throughout coal\u2019s lifecycle.

Then of course there\u2019s the fact that coal is the single largest source of global warming pollution\u2014while coal-fired power represents only 39% of all electricity generated in the U.S,\u00a0according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA<\/span>)<\/a>, it is responsible for 75% of carbon emissions.

And of course the health of coal miners and the safety of mining operations is a cause for concern, as well. The\u00a0indictment of coal baron Don Blankenship<\/a>\u00a0is proof enough of that\u2014a\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0attorney recently pressed conspiracy charges against Blankenship for violating federal mine safety and health standards and impeding federal mine safety officials, among other offenses committed before and after the explosion at Massey Energy\u2019s\u00a0Upper Big Branch Mine in 2010<\/a>\u00a0that took the lives of 29 workers.
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Newspapers Complicit In Selling Phony \u201cWar On Coal\u201d | DeSmogBlog. U.S.\u00a0newspapers are helping conservatives push their misleading \u201cwar on coal\u201d narrative, according to a new report.There are a number of reasons why thetide has turned against the coal industryaround the globe. Mining and burning coal for energy poses huge risks for human health and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[369,512,1920,1961,1962],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-media","tag-us-media","tag-us-newspapers","tag-war-on-coal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}