{"id":200015,"date":"2010-01-19T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2010-01-19T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:56:29","slug":"lisa-murkowski-the-power-utilities%e2%80%99-woman-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/200015","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Murkowski, The Power Utilities\u2019 Woman in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 95px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/murkowski-85.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5661\" title=\"murkowski-85\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/murkowski-85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Murkowski<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Congress&#8217;s likely failure to pass a comprehensive climate change legislation this year is paving the way for a stricter and probably less corporate-friendly regulation regime to be\u00a0 administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/12\/epa-carbon-dioxide-greenhouse-gas-emissions-are-public-health-danger\/\" >Last month\u2019s landmark<\/a> announcement by EPA administrator Lisa Jackson that green house gas and CO2 emissions represent a public health danger, was a clear indication that her agency would not shy away from using its regulatory gauntlet to advance President Obama\u2019s climate change agenda, if the legislative route failed.<span id=\"more-5660\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, lobbyists for energy and power companies have been storming\u00a0Capitol Hill to ensure that the EPA stays put. One steady ally in that fight has been Senator\u00a0Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate\u2019s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Last year she submitted an amendment &#8212; partly drafted by industry lobbyists, according to the Washington Post &#8212; that would have blocked the EPA from regulating CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Murkowski has been rewarded for her timely advocacy. <a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/content\/digest.msp?id=2234&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29\" >According to data<\/a> compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, she received $157,000 from the nation\u2019s electric utilities last year and more than $244,000 since 2005, making her Congress\u2019s top recipient of campaign contributions from the power sector.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/wN7P1O7bRDs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Murkowski Congress&#8217;s likely failure to pass a comprehensive climate change legislation this year is paving the way for a stricter and probably less corporate-friendly regulation regime to be\u00a0 administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Last month\u2019s landmark announcement by EPA administrator Lisa Jackson that green house gas and CO2 emissions represent a public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200015","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\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}