{"id":528947,"date":"2010-04-15T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82487"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T22:06:56","slug":"senators-will-unveil-climate-bill-on-april-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528947","title":{"rendered":"Senators Will Unveil Climate Bill on April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tripartisan group of senators crafting climate legislation &#8212; John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/15\/senate-climate-bill-debut-set-for-april-26\/\">plan<\/a> to release their much-anticipated bill on April 26. The original idea was to roll it out on April 22, the symbolic 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Why the change?<\/p>\n<p>Graham <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/13\/AR2010041303673_pf.html\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to do it on Earth Day,&#8221; Graham said, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s  going to be offshore drilling day when it&#8217;s introduced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-82487\"><\/span>That won&#8217;t please environmental advocates who are already skittish about Graham&#8217;s commitment to meaningful climate legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, the first annual Offshore Drilling Day is also my 25th annual birthday. Thanks for the best gift an environmental reporter can get, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tripartisan group of senators crafting climate legislation &#8212; John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) &#8212; plan to release their much-anticipated bill on April 26. The original idea was to roll it out on April 22, the symbolic 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Why the change? Graham explains: &#8220;We&#8217;re not going [&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-528947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528947","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=528947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}