{"id":295942,"date":"2010-02-08T22:02:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/obama-senate-might-drop-cap-and-trade-aspect-of-the-energy-bill\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T22:02:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T03:02:29","slug":"obama-senate-might-drop-cap-and-trade-aspect-of-the-energy%c2%a0bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295942","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Senate Might Drop Cap-and-trade Aspect Of The Energy\u00a0Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Barack+Obama_1961_19596317_0_0_7045616_300.jpg\" alt=\"Obama: Senate might drop cap-and-trade aspect of the energy bill\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">While speaking at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire last week, President Obama acknowledged that it is conceivable that an energy bill may be approved in the Senate without the cap-and-trade component that he has been pushing since taking office last year. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The only thing I would say about it is this: We may be able to separate these things out,&quot; said Obama. &quot;And it&#8217;s conceivable that that&#8217;s where the Senate ends up.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Also known as emissions trading, cap-and-trade legislation would set a limit on the amount of pollutants that a company can emit, and would then force that company to purchase credits if they exceed their allotment.  <\/p>\n<p>Senate moderates from both sides of the aisle have recently pushed Obama to accept an energy-only bill that does not include the emissions trading component, which exists in the House bill that was passed last year, according to <i>The New York Times<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a White House spokesman quickly downplayed the president&#8217;s remarks, stating that they were only an &quot;observation&quot; and that &quot;nothing has changed&quot; since his State of the Union address last week. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19596317-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19596317\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While speaking at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire last week, President Obama acknowledged that it is conceivable that an energy bill may be approved in the Senate without the cap-and-trade component that he has been pushing since taking office last year. &quot;The only thing I would say about it is this: We may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295942","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\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}