{"id":7181,"date":"2018-01-17T08:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2018-01-17T08:21:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:21:55","slug":"another-day-of-reckoning-for-big-oils-role-in-climate-change-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7181","title":{"rendered":"Another Day of Reckoning for Big Oil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Role in Climate Change &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Mr. de Blasio\u2019s decision to confront some of the world\u2019s biggest polluters is possibly transformative and certainly timely. It comes just when the Trump administration is moving in the opposite direction, opening up America\u2019s coastal waters to drilling and removing regulatory obstacles to oil exploration, and generally giving fossil fuel companies pretty much what they want. It follows a year of extreme weather events, including three major hurricanes, that collectively caused\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/08\/climate\/2017-weather-disasters.html\">$306 billion in damage<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d the most expensive year on record for natural disasters in this country.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/15\/opinion\/big-oil-climate-change-nyc.html?_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Mr. de Blasio\u2019s decision to confront some of the world\u2019s biggest polluters is possibly transformative and certainly timely. It comes just when the Trump administration is moving in the opposite direction, opening up America\u2019s coastal waters to drilling and removing regulatory obstacles to oil exploration, and generally giving fossil fuel companies pretty much what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181"}],"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=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7182,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}