{"id":297919,"date":"2010-02-09T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/obama-senate-might-drop-cap-trade-aspect-energy-bill-39214\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:00:06","slug":"obama-senate-might-drop-cap-and-trade-aspect-of-the-energybill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297919","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Senate Might Drop Cap-and-trade Aspect Of The Energy*Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.08.10 07:02 PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Barack+Obama_1961_19596317_0_0_7045616_300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>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 \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19596317\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/obama-senate-might-drop-cap-and-trade-aspect-of-the-energy-bill-19596317\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/&#8230;bill-19596317\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.08.10 07:02 PM 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297919","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\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}