{"id":242269,"date":"2010-01-28T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75070"},"modified":"2010-01-28T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:56:57","slug":"graham-keeps-environmental-activists-on-their-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242269","title":{"rendered":"Graham Keeps Environmental Activists on Their Toes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) got green activists all excited by <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/71912\/climate-2\">backing cap-and-trade legislation<\/a>, even <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/73412\/in-the-face-of-censure-graham-doubles-down-on-cap-and-trade\">in the face of sharp criticism<\/a> from fellow conservatives. Then he <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75057\/environmentalists-remind-graham-the-climate-bill-is-already-industry-friendly\">let them down<\/a> when he <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74953\/does-grahams-backtrack-spell-the-end-of-cap-and-trade\">said Tuesday<\/a> that the House and Senate climate bills \u201care going nowhere\u201d and a  \u201cmassive cap-and-trade system that regulates carbon in a fashion that  drives up energy costs\u201d is \u201cdead.\u201d Now, he&#8217;s got them jazzed up again with <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/01\/28\/lindsey-graham-price-carbon-not-serious-about-energy-independence-clean-air\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29\">yet another clarification<\/a>:<span id=\"more-75070\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) insisted today that he still  supports placing a cap on greenhouse gas emissions and would work to  win over reluctant Republicans as part of a broader bill that also opens  the door to more domestic energy production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo jump-start nuclear power, wind and solar and the green economy,  you\u2019ve got to price carbon,\u201d Graham told reporters today. \u201cHow you do it  is subject to discussion and open debate. But the idea of not pricing  carbon, in my view, means you\u2019re not serious about energy independence.  The odd thing is you\u2019ll never have energy independence until you clean  up the air, and you\u2019ll never clean up the air until you price carbon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Supporters of climate legislation will have to hope they catch Graham on a good day when the bill actually comes to a vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) got green activists all excited by backing cap-and-trade legislation, even in the face of sharp criticism from fellow conservatives. Then he let them down when he said Tuesday that the House and Senate climate bills \u201care going nowhere\u201d and a \u201cmassive cap-and-trade system that regulates carbon in a fashion that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242269","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}