{"id":12261,"date":"2012-02-12T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=12261"},"modified":"2012-02-12T12:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:05:19","slug":"silverstein-lights-out-for-some-coal-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/02\/silverstein-lights-out-for-some-coal-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverstein: Lights Out for Some Coal Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Politically, it is a win-win for the government if it uses natural gas to produce power here while quietly selling coal elsewhere.&#8221;<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Ken Silverstein writes at Forbes.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First there were six. Now there\u2019s three more. What\u2019s going on in the coal-fired utility business? FirstEnergy of Ohio plans to close by September those 9 units, which supply as much as 13 percent of the company\u2019s electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Some call it an Environmental Protection Agency onslaught. Others call it for what it is \u2014 environmental improvements that are long overdue. Indeed, utilities are now forced to choose whether to retrofit or to retire their old coal plants that do not have modern pollution controls. It\u2019s expensive to go back and fix those that are as old as 50, or ones that have outlived their expected days on this earth&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kensilverstein\/2012\/02\/12\/lights-out-for-some-coal-plants\/\">Read the entire commentary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Politically, it is a win-win for the government if it uses natural gas to produce power here while quietly selling coal elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-3bL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}