{"id":3378,"date":"2020-05-29T14:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh-2020\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2020-05-29T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:32:42","slug":"two-pa-colleges-hit-carbon-neutrality-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/two-pa-colleges-hit-carbon-neutrality-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Two PA Colleges Hit Carbon Neutrality Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"by-date\"><span class=\"submitted\"><span class=\"submitted-label\">By<\/span> <span class=\"name\">Rachel McDevitt | WITF<\/span><\/span> <i class=\"bullet\">\u2022<\/i> <span class=\"pub-date\">May 4, 2020. 90.5 WESA.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Two Pennsylvania colleges are now carbon-neutral \u2014 joining only a handful of other schools with the same achievement nationwide.\u00a0Allegheny College in northwestern Pennsylvania and Dickinson College in central Pennsylvania hit their goals this month.\u00a0In 2008, each college was generating nearly 19,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases.\u00a0To reach net-zero, they relied on a mix of energy efficiency measures, renewable energy projects, and purchasing credits to offset what they still emit.\u00a0\u00a0Pennsylvania is the fifth largest carbon emitter in the United States at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/state\/rankings\/?sid=PA#series\/226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">215 million metric tons as of 2017.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesa.fm\/post\/two-pa-colleges-hit-carbon-neutrality-goals#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Article HERE<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo caption\/credit:\u00a0 The Dickinson College Campus in Carlisle, Cumberland County.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-meta\">\n<div class=\"attribution\"><span class=\"credit\">Kate Landis<\/span> \/ <span class=\"agency\">PA Post<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rachel McDevitt | WITF \u2022 May 4, 2020. 90.5 WESA. Two Pennsylvania colleges are now carbon-neutral \u2014 joining only<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleanpower","category-greenhouse","category-pa_pgh_news","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}