{"id":484793,"date":"2010-03-29T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=10245"},"modified":"2010-03-29T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:22:34","slug":"former-energy-chair-doubts-climate-bill-will-happen-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/484793","title":{"rendered":"Former energy chair doubts climate bill will happen this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time may be running out on efforts to pass climate change legislation this year, according to the former chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/energy.senate.gov\/public\/\" >Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/scripts\/biodisplay.pl?index=J000189\" >J. Bennett Johnston<\/a> offered that opinion during a weekend appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plattsenergyweektv.com\/\" >Platts Energy Week<\/a>, citing Congressional fatigue in the wake of the contentious health care debate and the limited number of days left on the legislative calendar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10249\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 211px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10249\" title=\"DSC_0127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_01271.JPG\" alt=\"March snow in North Texas. Photo: Green Right Now\" width=\"201\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">March snow in North Texas. Photo: Green Right Now<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;What you&#8217;ve got to do is provide a credible way to control greenhouse gases,&#8221; Johnston said. &#8220;But first of all, you&#8217;ve got to deal with coal, and they don&#8217;t have a plan for coal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With recesses, other agendas and the upcoming mid-term election, Johnston expressed skepticism that comprehensive legislation could be achieved. He added that a bill that came out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last June could have been passed by the wider Congress &#8220;had they started earlier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe in the science of climate change, but there is simply not time, in my judgment, to get it done this year,&#8221; Johnston said. &#8220;There was a deal to be done if they started earlier, but not this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnston is now a lobbyist representing a number of energy interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports Time may be running out on efforts to pass climate change legislation this year, according to the former chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. J. Bennett Johnston offered that opinion during a weekend appearance on Platts Energy Week, citing Congressional fatigue in the wake of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484793","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=484793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}