{"id":544756,"date":"2010-04-27T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2010-04-27T14:13:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:13:30","slug":"31-major-environmental-groups-urge-senate-to-finish-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544756","title":{"rendered":"31 Major Environmental Groups Urge Senate to Finish Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/ClimateRally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8936\" title=\"ClimateRally\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/ClimateRally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a weekend climate rally on the Mall in Washington attended by  150,000 people &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mvjantzen\/4553786340\/\" > including at least two blue Navii people<\/a> &#8211; the 31 major  environmental groups in the US <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CEO-letter-to-Senate.pdf\" >today sent a letter to congress<\/a> demanding that it return to the table on the climate bill before the  summer recess, citing the Senate&#8217;s &#8220;profound responsibility to future generations to enact policies that enhance our economic, environmental and national security&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was signed by the key representatives of all  of the major environmental groups  &#8211; the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environment  America. The activist groups signed on; led by 1Sky, Climate Solutions  and the  Alliance for Climate  Protection.<\/p>\n<p>They were joined by the groups that have expertize in the field of  climate policy &#8211; the Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental  Defense Fund, Center for American Progress Action Fund,  Center for International  Environmental Law and the Pew Environment Group.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/27\/31-major-environmental-groups-urge-senate-to-finish-climate-bill\/#more-8935\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=lzUSh_Jbqfw:OvkQK9H3B4U: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=lzUSh_Jbqfw:OvkQK9H3B4U:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=lzUSh_Jbqfw:OvkQK9H3B4U:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=lzUSh_Jbqfw:OvkQK9H3B4U:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=lzUSh_Jbqfw:OvkQK9H3B4U:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=lzUSh_Jbqfw:OvkQK9H3B4U:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=lzUSh_Jbqfw:OvkQK9H3B4U:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=lzUSh_Jbqfw:OvkQK9H3B4U: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\/lzUSh_Jbqfw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend climate rally on the Mall in Washington attended by 150,000 people &#8211; including at least two blue Navii people &#8211; the 31 major environmental groups in the US today sent a letter to congress demanding that it return to the table on the climate bill before the summer recess, citing the Senate&#8217;s [&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-544756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544756","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=544756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}