{"id":72968,"date":"2025-07-21T09:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/21\/china-coal-industry-clean-energy-shift"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:26:49","slug":"caught-between-a-fossil-fuel-past-and-a-green-future-chinas-coal-miners-chart-an-uncertain-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72968","title":{"rendered":"Caught between a fossil fuel past and a green future, China\u2019s coal miners chart an uncertain path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world\u2019s largest greenhouse gas emitter shifts to cleaner energy, some families fear being left behind<\/p>\n<p>Gazing over the remains of his home, Wang Bingbing surveys a decades-old jujube tree flowering through the rubble, and the yard where he and his wife once raised pigs, now a pile of crumbled brick.<\/p>\n<p>In the valley below, a sprawling coalmine is the source of their dislocation: years of digging heightened the risk of landslides, forcing Wang and his family out. To prevent the family from returning, local authorities later demolished their home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/21\/china-coal-industry-clean-energy-shift\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world\u2019s largest greenhouse gas emitter shifts to cleaner energy, some families fear being left behindGazing over the remains of his home, Wang Bingbing surveys a decades-old jujube tree flowering through the rubble, and the yard where he and his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,589,493,65,492,564,659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-renewable-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72968\/revisions\/72969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}