{"id":458909,"date":"2010-03-22T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:32:19","slug":"gavin-newsom-halfway-to-a-green-taxi-fleet-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/458909","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom | Halfway to a Green Taxi Fleet in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4760 aligncenter\" title=\"2011 Ford Transit Connect Taxi\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/02\/2011_Transit_Taxi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor&#8217;s Note: This is a guest post from San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, who has also just announced his candidacy for California Lieutenant Governor]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Almost two years ago to the day, I sponsored a <a href=\"http:\/\/search.municode.com\/html\/14140\/level3\/A16_DII_Regu.html#A16_DII_Regu_s1135.3\" >Green Taxi Law<\/a> requiring San Francisco cab companies to lower their greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2012 . When I announced this goal many said it was unattainable.<\/p>\n<p>We thought it was not only possible, but necessary to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, clean our air, and accelerate a new green economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/03\/22\/gavin-newsom-halfway-to-a-green-taxi-fleet-in-san-francisco\/#more-6152\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=4BHBy30KgUc:FdH3Q8x1e7I:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=4BHBy30KgUc:FdH3Q8x1e7I:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=4BHBy30KgUc:FdH3Q8x1e7I:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=4BHBy30KgUc:FdH3Q8x1e7I:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=4BHBy30KgUc:FdH3Q8x1e7I:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=4BHBy30KgUc:FdH3Q8x1e7I:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=4BHBy30KgUc:FdH3Q8x1e7I:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=4BHBy30KgUc:FdH3Q8x1e7I:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/4BHBy30KgUc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor&#8217;s Note: This is a guest post from San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, who has also just announced his candidacy for California Lieutenant Governor] Almost two years ago to the day, I sponsored a Green Taxi Law requiring San Francisco cab companies to lower their greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2012 . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458909","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\/6319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}