{"id":499,"date":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/press\/499\/lifting-europes-dark-cloud\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:41:31","slug":"lifting-europes-dark-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/publikatsiya\/499\/lifting-europes-dark-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifting Europe\u2019s Dark Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How cutting coal saves lives<\/h2>\n<div class=\"leader\">\n\tEffective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with \u2018permission to pollute\u2019 above limits set in EU law.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>These are the findings of a new report \u201c<strong>Lifting Europe\u2019s Dark Cloud: How cutting coal saves lives<\/strong>\u201d published today by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, WWF and Sandbag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLifting Europe\u2019s Dark Cloud\u201d shows how improving environmental performance at European coal power stations could save 20,000 lives every year. By setting and enforcing pollution limits in line with the best industry-recognized, tried-and-tested techniques,<strong> the annual number of premature deaths caused by burning coal could be reduced from 22,900 to 2,600 deaths<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The report also finds that current legislation is failing to deliver its intended health benefits because special exceptions have been granted that allow for emissions over the agreed \u2018safety net\u2019 levels. At the time of publication, <strong>more than half of the coal power plants in Europe have \u2018permission to pollute\u2019 beyond the limits set in the Industrial Emissions Directive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/4f110c95-4f110c95-lifting-europes-dark-cloud.pdf\">The full text of the report can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/02cf2d7e-02cf2d7e-bulgaria_danni.pdf\">Data for Bulgaria can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with \u2018permission to pollute\u2019 above limits set in EU law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":440,"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-499","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\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}