{"id":542167,"date":"2010-04-23T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83150"},"modified":"2010-04-23T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:28:58","slug":"greenpeace-will-not-support-senate-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542167","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Will Not Support Senate Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this afternoon, I <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/83065\/loaded-with-concessions-climate-bill-wins-backing-of-oil-companies\">speculated<\/a> on what the concessions to industry in the Senate climate bill would mean for environmental groups&#8217; support. &#8220;Is this enough for some liberal groups to withhold their support?&#8221; I asked.  &#8220;Probably &#8212; although the mainstream of the environmental movement is  likely to bite the bullet and throw its weight behind the country\u2019s best  chance to curb greenhouse gas emissions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that question&#8217;s already starting to be answered. Greenpeace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0410\/36277.html\">delivers<\/a> a resounding &#8220;yes&#8221;:<span id=\"more-83150\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Offering the first evidence of the complex Senate debate that lies  ahead on an energy reform bill, the environmental group Greenpeace said  Friday it intends to oppose the legislation that a bipartisan group of  Senators intend to introduce next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we appreciate the Senate\u2019s efforts to reduce global warming  pollution, it\u2019s clear that polluter lobbyists have succeeded in  hijacking this climate policy initiative and undermined the ambitious  action necessary,\u201d Phil Radford, the group\u2019s executive director, said in  a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more answers after the bill drops on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this afternoon, I speculated on what the concessions to industry in the Senate climate bill would mean for environmental groups&#8217; support. &#8220;Is this enough for some liberal groups to withhold their support?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Probably &#8212; although the mainstream of the environmental movement is likely to bite the bullet and throw its weight behind [&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-542167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542167","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=542167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}