{"id":155723,"date":"2010-01-08T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/republican-sen-lindsey-graham-defects-to-climate-change-activist-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-08T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T16:05:00","slug":"republican-senator-lindsey-graham-defects-to-climate-change-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/155723","title":{"rendered":"Republican Senator Lindsey Graham Defects To Climate Change Activist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b47563900000000001c8171\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AP Lindsey Graham\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Climate change has found the unlikeliest of friends in Republican senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, who has called for more federal control over greenhouse gas pollution, <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/01\/08\/conservative-republican-a-strong-climate-change-activist\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cleantechnica%2Fcom+%28CleanTechnica%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">CleanTechnica reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech on Tuesday, Graham expressed support for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-obama-will-promise-to-radically-cut-carbon-emissions-2009-11\">legislation to crack down on carbon dioxide pollution<\/a>, which he believes will bolster the U.S. economy and simultaneously reduce our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stunner-oil-execs-dont-believe-the-us-gets-off-foreign-oil-anytime-soon-2009-5\">dependence on foreign oil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Graham has come under fire from his more conservative collegaues for his surprising position on the matter, but apparently is not backing down.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about a switch hitter for the green team!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/republican-sen-lindsey-graham-defects-to-climate-change-activist-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/26\/us\/politics\/26climate.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">Obama Will Promise To Radically Cut Carbon Emissions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stunner-oil-execs-dont-believe-the-us-gets-off-foreign-oil-anytime-soon-2009-5\">Stunner: Oil Execs Don&#8217;t Believe The U.S. Gets Off Foreign Oil Anytime Soon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KLnzcC7LD9Z9KNHzCBiaLL1sgpc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KLnzcC7LD9Z9KNHzCBiaLL1sgpc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KLnzcC7LD9Z9KNHzCBiaLL1sgpc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KLnzcC7LD9Z9KNHzCBiaLL1sgpc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=WQ16Choy7AI:dMEK9KX4cEo:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=WQ16Choy7AI:dMEK9KX4cEo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=WQ16Choy7AI:dMEK9KX4cEo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=WQ16Choy7AI:dMEK9KX4cEo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=WQ16Choy7AI:dMEK9KX4cEo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=WQ16Choy7AI:dMEK9KX4cEo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=WQ16Choy7AI:dMEK9KX4cEo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=WQ16Choy7AI:dMEK9KX4cEo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/WQ16Choy7AI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change has found the unlikeliest of friends in Republican senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, who has called for more federal control over greenhouse gas pollution, CleanTechnica reports. In a speech on Tuesday, Graham expressed support for legislation to crack down on carbon dioxide pollution, which he believes will bolster the U.S. economy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}