{"id":698,"date":"2009-09-03T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2009-10-22T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T23:18:11","slug":"truthdig-reports-new-light-on-copenhagen-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Truthdig – Reports – New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘…The road to Copenhagen also is paved with gold: money being spent by the wealthy oil, gas and coal industries to derail or weaken any outcome. The American Petroleum Institute (API) has launched an \u201cAstroTurf\u201d (not to be confused with grass roots) campaign in the U.S., paying for and organizing rallies, largely attended by oil, gas and coal company employees, under the banner of \u201cEnergy Citizens.\u201d Employees are bused in to the staged rallies with signs proclaiming \u201cI\u2019ll pass on $4 gas\u201d and \u201cCongress, don\u2019t take away my job!\u201d Similarities to the organized mobs at health care reform town-hall-style meetings are not merely coincidental; former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey\u2019s group FreedomWorks, funded by, among others, oil and pharmaceutical corporations, is listed as a consultant to each industry campaign.’<\/p>\n

via Truthdig – Reports – New Light on Copenhagen Climate Talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘…The road to Copenhagen also is paved with gold: money being spent by the wealthy oil, gas and coal industries to derail or weaken any outcome. The American Petroleum Institute (API) has launched an \u201cAstroTurf\u201d (not to be confused with grass roots) campaign in the U.S., paying for and organizing rallies, largely attended by oil, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}