{"id":3084,"date":"2008-09-09T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2008-09-09T09:53:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T16:53:29","slug":"no-such-thing-as-clean-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/09\/09\/no-such-thing-as-clean-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"No Such Thing as &#8220;Clean Coal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_09_09_08\/2008_09_09_brune.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_09_09_08\/2008_09_09_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/2007-10-28_085651.jpg\" alt=\"Clean Coal\" \/>As Democrats and Republicans battle each other for votes, election-related propaganda is flowing at a high rate &#8211; from both sides. The economy, unemployment, and the price of gas are all high on the list of worries for every-day people. For many others, adding to that is the impact of hurricanes, more intense and more frequent as a result of global warming. In response, both parties are touting all sorts of panaceas from domestic oil drilling to so-called clean coal technology and green-collar jobs. Today we focus on clean coal in our on-going election coverage. Delegates at both major party conventions sported buttons, stickers, and T-shirts proclaiming the virtues of clean coal. Candidates and elected officials made frequent mentions in speeches. Billboards advertised clean coal with no explanation &#8211; just the term itself says it all. But what exactly is clean coal? Is it really clean? And are there other, better options that are rarely discussed? <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network, author of &#8220;Coming Clean: Breaking America&#8217;s Addiction to Oil and Coal&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program As Democrats and Republicans battle each other for votes, election-related propaganda is flowing at a high rate &#8211; from both sides. The economy, unemployment, and the price of gas are all high on the list of worries for every-day people. For many others, adding to that is the impact of hurricanes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}