{"id":389882,"date":"2010-03-04T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78443"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:46:11","slug":"lieberman-to-murkowski-anwr-drilling-ain%e2%80%99t-gonna-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389882","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman to Murkowski: ANWR Drilling Ain\u2019t Gonna Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the three senators crafting climate legislation try to rally moderates behind their cause, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) could be a key player, since she&#8217;s shown some (but not much) willingness to play ball on climate issues. That&#8217;s why environmental advocates were so dismayed when she announced that drilling in Alaska&#8217;s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-04-murkowski-wants-to-save-alaska-by-destroying-it\/\">&#8220;must-have&#8221;<\/a> in order to win her support.<\/p>\n<p>But now Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), one of the Senate climate trio, is telling her he&#8217;s not going to cave on this issue. The Hill <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/85039-lieberman-anwr-drilling-a-deal-breaker-in-climate-effort\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat is just not going to happen,\u201d he told reporters in the Capitol. [&#8230;]<span id=\"more-78443\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking at a lot of things, we are bending to bring people in,  but that one is a no-no,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In order to keep another member of the triumvirate, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), on board, any climate bill will have to include expanded nuclear power and offshore drilling. But on the ANWR issue, it seems, Lieberman is drawing the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the three senators crafting climate legislation try to rally moderates behind their cause, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) could be a key player, since she&#8217;s shown some (but not much) willingness to play ball on climate issues. That&#8217;s why environmental advocates were so dismayed when she announced that drilling in Alaska&#8217;s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389882","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\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}