{"id":1518,"date":"2024-07-15T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2024-07-13T13:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:36:59","slug":"shutting-down-coal-powered-power-plants-has-multiple-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/shutting-down-coal-powered-power-plants-has-multiple-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutting Down Coal-Powered Power Plants Has Multiple Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As coal-powered power plants shut down at an ever-increasing speed across the nation, the problem arises of what to do with the lands they occupied.\u00a0\u00a0 Michigan might have the ideal answer:\u00a0 Turn them into greenways, parks, wildlife habitats and clean energy sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Power Plants to Parklands Is Turning Michigan\u2019s Retired Coal Plants Into Community Hubs of Solace, Wildlife and Solar Energy<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/power-plants-parklands-michigan-coal-conservation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/power-plants-parklands-michigan-coal-conservation.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780316426497\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As coal-powered power plants shut down at an ever-increasing speed across the nation, the problem arises of what to do with the lands they occupied.\u00a0\u00a0 Michigan might have the ideal answer:\u00a0 Turn them into greenways, parks, wildlife habitats and clean energy sites. Power Plants to Parklands Is Turning Michigan\u2019s Retired Coal Plants Into Community Hubs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/shutting-down-coal-powered-power-plants-has-multiple-benefits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Shutting Down Coal-Powered Power Plants Has Multiple Benefits&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}