{"id":1211,"date":"2014-06-27T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2014-06-27T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T19:58:13","slug":"oppd-plans-to-retire-coal-fired-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/27\/oppd-plans-to-retire-coal-fired-units\/","title":{"rendered":"OPPD plans to retire coal-fired units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Omaha World-Herald<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coal-fired power plants in Nebraska and Iowa are adapting to tightened clean-air rules.\u00a0Some are shutting down. Others are installing pollution controls or refueling with natural gas. Still others are holding off on major decisions until a new rule limiting carbon dioxide emissions is made final.<\/p>\n<p>The Omaha Public Power District, for its part, isn\u2019t waiting.\u00a0Thursday, the OPPD board approved a 20-year generation plan that will retire three coal-burning units at the North Omaha Station in 2016, offsetting the loss of power generation with new and expanded efficiency programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/news\/metro\/oppd-plots-to-retire-all-north-omaha-station-s-coal\/article_2218822c-f7d0-11e3-a070-0017a43b2370.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha World-Herald: Coal-fired power plants in Nebraska and Iowa are adapting to tightened clean-air rules.\u00a0Some are shutting down. Others are installing pollution controls or refueling with natural gas. Still others are holding off on major decisions until a new rule limiting carbon dioxide emissions is made final. The Omaha Public Power District, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/27\/oppd-plans-to-retire-coal-fired-units\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OPPD plans to retire coal-fired units<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[10,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}