{"id":547105,"date":"2010-04-29T12:38:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2010-04-29T12:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:38:27","slug":"oil-disaster-could-clean-up-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547105","title":{"rendered":"Oil Disaster Could Clean Up Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Oil_Spill_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9154\" title=\"Oil_Spill_2010\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Oil_Spill_2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday, a Republican Senator joined with Democrats representing coastal states threatened by the massive oil spill in voicing continued alarms over including off-shore drilling in a climate and energy bill. As new reports reveal that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-04-29\/bp-oil-well-leaking-five-times-faster-than-estimated-correct-.html\" >oil spill is now five times worse than estimated<\/a>: &#8220;We need to move heaven and earth to  stop this from becoming an   environmental disaster.&#8221; said Florida&#8217;s Republican Senator, George LeMieux.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The continued failure to stop  the leak threatens to wreak untold  damage on Florida&#8217;s coastlines&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/lemieux.senate.gov\/public\/?p=NewsReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=5cdd99e3-29a7-4031-aedd-92f1bac918bf&amp;ContentType_id=1d62f91e-b8b8-44a9-8175-202346eb6e9e\">says   Republican Senator LeMieux<\/a> &#8211; albeit along with his diatribes  against &#8220;government spending&#8221; &#8211; on his YouTube web page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  federal  government needs to make this their immediate, number one  priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is an economic cost of failure  to  keep the Everglades  safe. The huge oil spill could prove to be a tipping point; switching a Republican vote from dirty energy to clean energy. <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/29\/oil-disaster-could-clean-up-climate-bill\/#more-9141\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=XJH_M_moR3k:QZPZyXH4kiE: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=XJH_M_moR3k:QZPZyXH4kiE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=XJH_M_moR3k:QZPZyXH4kiE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=XJH_M_moR3k:QZPZyXH4kiE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=XJH_M_moR3k:QZPZyXH4kiE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=XJH_M_moR3k:QZPZyXH4kiE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=XJH_M_moR3k:QZPZyXH4kiE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=XJH_M_moR3k:QZPZyXH4kiE: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\/XJH_M_moR3k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a Republican Senator joined with Democrats representing coastal states threatened by the massive oil spill in voicing continued alarms over including off-shore drilling in a climate and energy bill. 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