{"id":439,"date":"2014-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/press\/439\/the-suffocating-grip-of-coal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:42:48","slug":"the-suffocating-grip-of-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/publikatsiya\/439\/the-suffocating-grip-of-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suffocating Grip Of Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Report on the effects of coal burning on human health<\/h2>\n<div class=\"leader\">Coal-fired electricity generation:<br \/>(no) prospects<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Air pollution is a key cause of a number of diseases in Europe and Bulgaria. This report of Greenpeace Bulgaria on the impact of coal burning on human health demonstrates the close link between human health and the energy policy and strategy of Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p>Reliance on coal and new nuclear capacities on the part of the Bulgarian government is ill-advised from both<br \/>economicly and environmentally wise. Most importantly, it implies an unacceptably high price, measured in human health and human lives. As a result, thermal power plants benefit at the cost of human life and health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-grey-900-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/36e9990f-36e9990f-report_coal_en1.pdf\" style=\"background-color:#68dfde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the report &#8222;The Suffocating Grip of Coal&#8220;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large  caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2021\/03\/99404751-the-suffocating-grip-of-coal-en.jpg\" title=\"Cover of the report &quot;The Suffocating Grip of Coal&quot;, November 2013\" alt=\"Cover of the report &quot;The Suffocating Grip of Coal&quot;, November 2013\" class=\"wp-image-5729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2021\/03\/99404751-the-suffocating-grip-of-coal-en.jpg 643w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2021\/03\/99404751-the-suffocating-grip-of-coal-en-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2021\/03\/99404751-the-suffocating-grip-of-coal-en-240x340.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><figcaption>Cover of the report &#8222;The Suffocating Grip of Coal&#8220;, November 2013<div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 \u201e\u0413\u0440\u0438\u0439\u043d\u043f\u0438\u0439\u0441\u201c \u2013 \u0411\u044a\u043b\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0438\u044f<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air pollution is a key cause of a number of diseases in Europe and Bulgaria. This report of Greenpeace Bulgaria on the impact of coal burning on human health demonstrates the close link between human health and the energy policy and strategy of Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":5729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energia","tag-vuglishta","p4-page-type-publikatsiya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11736,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/11736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}