{"id":503326,"date":"2010-04-01T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2630"},"modified":"2010-04-01T16:57:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T20:57:53","slug":"big-energy-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/503326","title":{"rendered":"Big Energy News"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a “good news, bad news” week for our energy future. Today EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the finalized (and historic) “clean car standards”<\/a> that have been in the works since President Obama took office. The new standards will raise the fuel economy of our nation’s automobile fleet and, for the first time ever, set federal standards for global warming pollution from our cars. The announcement is the culmination of years of work <\/a>and will help clean our air, reduce our climate impact, and save consumers money at the pump by cutting oil consumption.<\/p>\n

However, the President also announced a new energy plan yesterday<\/a> that includes expanding offshore oil drilling to thousands of miles of our nation’s coastline. While the plan does protect the Bristol Bay, a fragile Alaskan ecosystem, it opens the Atlantic Coast from Delaware to Florida, and vast regions of the Gulf Coast, to dangerous new oil drilling practices. While reducing oil imports is critical to our energy security, simply switching from foreign to domestic oil will not give us the energy and environmental security that we need. <\/p>\n

It’s time to develop clean energy and increase the efficiency of our cars and homes, and not be distracted by non-solutions like offshore drilling. Read the full statement on this week’s energy developments from Rabbi Saperstein here<\/b><\/a>, and take a stand against offshore drilling here<\/a>. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a “good news, bad news” week for our energy future. Today EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the finalized (and historic) “clean car standards” that have been in the works since President Obama took office. The new standards will raise the fuel economy of our nation’s automobile fleet and, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503326","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\/4317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}