{"id":472638,"date":"2010-03-25T19:13:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/?p=25464"},"modified":"2010-03-25T19:13:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T23:13:24","slug":"united-kingdom%e2%80%99s-co2-emissions-fell-9-8-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472638","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom\u2019s CO2 Emissions Fell 9.8% in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25463\" title=\"UK_Emissions_Fall_2009_Redcar_Steelworks\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/UK_Emissions_Fall_2009_Redcar_Steelworks-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"UK_Emissions_Fall_2009_Redcar_Steelworks\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010March25:<\/strong> CO2 emissions in the United Kingdom fell 9.8% in 2009, according to the UK&#8217;s Department for Energy and Climate Change. A decrease in energy consumption due to the recession was the primary reason for the change. The switch from coal to nuclear to generate electricity also helped lower CO2 emissions, according to the department (Guardian.co.uk, 2010).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong>Guardian.co.uk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/mar\/25\/uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-drop\" >http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/mar\/25\/uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-drop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Description: <\/strong>The Corus Steelworks in Redcar, from across the River Tees, UK. Photo by Ralph Gant, 2008Sept29. Image Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Redcar_Steelworks.jpg\" >http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Redcar_Steelworks.jpg<\/a> Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic\u00a0 license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010March25: CO2 emissions in the United Kingdom fell 9.8% in 2009, according to the UK&#8217;s Department for Energy and Climate Change. A decrease in energy consumption due to the recession was the primary reason for the change. The switch from coal to nuclear to generate electricity also helped lower CO2 emissions, according to the department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}