{"id":150420,"date":"2023-12-02T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150420"},"modified":"2023-12-02T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T19:07:05","slug":"john-kerry-declares-accelerated-coal-phase-out-to-build-stronger-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150420","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry declares accelerated coal phase-out to build stronger economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Al-Gore-Another-Global-Warming-Denier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-150421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Al-Gore-Another-Global-Warming-Denier-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Al-Gore-Another-Global-Warming-Denier-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Al-Gore-Another-Global-Warming-Denier-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Al-Gore-Another-Global-Warming-Denier-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Al-Gore-Another-Global-Warming-Denier.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Kerry is at the COP28 climate change meeting at Dubai. Joe Biden had already stated that coal plants would be phased out. While at the summit, Kerry declared that the US will work to accelerate the phasing out of coal. He said that this would help with building stronger economies. Additionally, Kerry declared that the US will join the Powering Past Coal Alliance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kerry said America was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a pact of nearly 60 countries that have promised to accelerate the phasing out of coal-fired power stations, except the very few that have carbon capture and storage.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry said the action forms part of America&#8217;s plan to limit global warming to 1.5 Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>As of October, just under 20% of the U.S. electricity is powered by coal, according to the Department of Energy. The amount of coal burned in the United States last year was less than half what it was in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Last month President Biden said that coal plants &#8220;all across America&#8221; will be shut down, to be replaced with wind and solar.<\/p>\n<p>A move to close down coal plants in the U.S. is already underway as federal clean energy tax credits and regulations make it harder for operators to compete economically.<\/p>\n<p>A report by the nonpartisan Institute for Energy Economics and Finance Analysis found that 173 coal plants are set to close by 2030 and another 54 by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Brandon Shores coal power plant located outside of Baltimore, is expected to be deactivated in June 2025 as part of a settlement between the plant&#8217;s operator and the left-wing eco group Sierra Club. The plant has a capacity of 1,295 megawatts, enough to power more than a million homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News provides the rest of the story, and images, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/us-commits-shutting-down-coal-plants-cop28\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry is at the COP28 climate change meeting at Dubai. Joe Biden had already stated &hellip; <a title=\"John Kerry declares accelerated coal phase-out to build stronger economies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150420\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Kerry declares accelerated coal phase-out to build stronger economies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}