{"id":547,"date":"2016-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/press\/547\/europes-dark-cloud\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:42:17","slug":"europes-dark-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/publikatsiya\/547\/europes-dark-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s dark cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How coal-burning countries are making their neighbours sick<\/h2>\n<div class=\"leader\">\n\tCoal pollution and its health impacts travel far beyond borders, and a full coal phase-out in the EU would bring enormous benefits for all citizens across the continent. That is according to a new report published by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, the WWF European Policy Office and Sandbag.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The report, \u2018Europe\u2019s Dark Cloud: How coal-burning countries make their neighbors sick\u2019, analyses the health impacts from air pollution of all EU coal-fired power stations for which data is available (257 out of 280). It reveals that in 2013 their emissions were responsible for over &nbsp;22,900 premature deaths, tens of thousands of cases of ill-health from heart disease to bronchitis, and up to EUR 62.3 billion in health costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/083f912e-083f912e-dark-cloud-report.pdf\">The full text of the report can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-bulgaria-stateless\/2019\/03\/dbe8f3bf-dbe8f3bf-dark-cloud_national_sheets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A supplement to Europe\u2019s Dark Cloud report with data for EU coal power plants can be viewed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal pollution and its health impacts travel far beyond borders, and a full coal phase-out in the EU would bring enormous benefits for all citizens across the continent. That is according to a new report published by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, the WWF European Policy Office and Sandbag.<\/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-547","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\/547","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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/5590"}],"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=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/bulgaria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}