{"id":993236,"date":"2021-11-10T08:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=993236"},"modified":"2021-11-10T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:14:02","slug":"john-kerry-u-s-wont-have-coal-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kerry-u-s-wont-have-coal-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry: U.S. \u2018Won\u2019t Have Coal\u2019 by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-kerry-u-s-wont-have-coal-by-2030%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=993236&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">John Kerry, President Joe Biden\u2019s climate envoy, said there would be no coal in the United States by the end of the decade at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2030 in the United States, we won\u2019t have coal,\u201d Kerry&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-11-09\/u-s-won-t-have-coal-by-2030-john-kerry-predicts-in-glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in an interview with Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Kerry is the first Biden official to publicly comment on the administration\u2019s environmental policy since the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that contained numerous sections&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/3684\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dedicated<\/a>&nbsp;to climate change passed Congress. His aspiration to rid the country of its coal by 2030 aligns with Biden\u2019s deadlines for lowering greenhouse gasses by the same year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18646482\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/wi\/afp\/07\/us-special-envoy-john-kerry-30-veteran-of-climate-geopolitics-he-counted-initiatives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18646482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/us-special-envoy-john-kerry-30-veteran-of-climate-geopolitics-he-counted-initiatives-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"658\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry delivers a speech on stage during a meeting, as part of the World Leaders\u2019 Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 2, 2021. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite these goals, Axios&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/john-kerry-cop26-coal-biden-manchin-3d3e6389-ca20-48f8-b716-72da394e8ff0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201cthe U.S. did not join last week to a pledge, signed by more than 40 countries, to phase out coal-fired power plants in the 2030s and 2040s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA), coal <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/energyexplained\/coal\/use-of-coal.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accounted<\/a> for ten percent&nbsp;of our nation\u2019s total energy consumption in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry went on to say, \u201cwe\u2019re saying we are going to be carbon-free in the power sector by 2035.\u201d \u201cI think that\u2019s leadership. I think that\u2019s indicative of what we can do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry, President Joe Biden\u2019s climate envoy, said there would be no coal in the United States by the end of the decade at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}