{"id":542780,"date":"2010-04-25T11:57:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8824"},"modified":"2010-04-25T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T15:57:40","slug":"republican-who-gets-it-on-clean-energy-could-derail-humanity%e2%80%99s-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542780","title":{"rendered":"Republican Who Gets It on Clean Energy Could Derail Humanity\u2019s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Chu_and_Graham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8840\" title=\"Chu_and_Graham\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Chu_and_Graham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSenator Graham (R-SC) told reporters Saturday that he was outraged at the idea that now immigration reform\u00a0 might be voted on before the climate and energy bill and is no longer unveiling it Monday as promised.<\/p>\n<p>He has been working for weeks with Senators Kerry  (D-NH) and Liebermnan (I-CT) on making the climate and renewable energy bill just  fossil-friendly-enough to actually hurdle the unethical 41 vote  filibuster of all Democratic majority legislation routinely employed by  Republicans since 2006 when they lost the majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>His frustration came because he had also spent weeks working with Democrats to make the immigration measure bipartisan and  had not been alerted to the change in plans, moving the immigration vote first.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night he said he can not now help unveil the long-awaited climate bill due Monday. But this could put it off till the new congress, when there will be several more Republicans in the Senate, ending the chances for US climate legislation indefinitely. <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/25\/republican-who-gets-it-on-clean-energy-could-derail-humanitys-future\/#more-8824\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=6DvPpx_YWP8:bNaHn6_0AFw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=6DvPpx_YWP8:bNaHn6_0AFw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=6DvPpx_YWP8:bNaHn6_0AFw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=6DvPpx_YWP8:bNaHn6_0AFw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=6DvPpx_YWP8:bNaHn6_0AFw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=6DvPpx_YWP8:bNaHn6_0AFw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=6DvPpx_YWP8:bNaHn6_0AFw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=6DvPpx_YWP8:bNaHn6_0AFw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cleantechnica\/com\/~4\/6DvPpx_YWP8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Graham (R-SC) told reporters Saturday that he was outraged at the idea that now immigration reform\u00a0 might be voted on before the climate and energy bill and is no longer unveiling it Monday as promised. He has been working for weeks with Senators Kerry (D-NH) and Liebermnan (I-CT) on making the climate and renewable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542780","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\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}