{"id":3630,"date":"2026-07-07T09:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:13:43","slug":"overloaded-coal-fired-power-plants-in-eastern-europe-exacerbate-cross-border-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/overloaded-coal-fired-power-plants-in-eastern-europe-exacerbate-cross-border-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Overloaded Coal-Fired Power Plants in Eastern Europe Exacerbate Cross-Border Air Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Persistent extreme heat across Europe has driven a surge in residential air conditioning demand, causing a sharp rise in electricity consumption for cooling. This, in turn, has led to a rebound in carbon emissions as coal-fired power generation has increased. With hydropower and nuclear power output constrained, a large number of aging coal-fired power plants in Eastern Europe\u2014many of which have been in service for decades\u2014have been forced to operate at full capacity to ensure a reliable power supply. As a result, their desulfurization and denitrification equipment has been operating under prolonged overload, leading to a decline in pollutant treatment efficiency. The continuous emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from power plants have spread across borders via atmospheric circulation, forming ground-level ozone under conditions of high temperatures and strong sunlight. At the same time, this has significantly increased the likelihood of regional acid rain, leading to a simultaneous worsening of air pollution across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persistent extreme heat across Europe has driven a surge in residential air conditioning demand, causing a sharp rise in electricity consumption for cooling. This, in turn, has led to a rebound in carbon emissions as coal-fired power generation has increased. With hydropower and nuclear power output constrained, a large number of aging coal-fired power plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-survival"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}