{"id":7414,"date":"2018-09-08T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7414"},"modified":"2018-09-09T22:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:22:33","slug":"will-californias-dirty-oil-business-soil-governor-jerry-browns-climate-legacy-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7414","title":{"rendered":"WILL CALIFORNIA’S DIRTY OIL BUSINESS SOIL GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN’S CLIMATE LEGACY? | Newsweek"},"content":{"rendered":"
‘…To wit, while Brown warns often in speeches that one-third of the world\u2019s oil reserves must remain untouched to avert climate catastrophe, the governor has not done much to keep California\u2019s reserves in the ground. To the contrary: In 2011 Brown flagrantly axed two state regulators for holding drillers to account for their environmental infractions. In 2013, he inserted last-minute amendments into a bill to regulate hydraulic fracturing and acidizing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d dissolving rock with toxic chemicals to access trapped oil. And while he managed to extend California\u2019s greenhouse-gas trading market, cap-and-trade, as far out as 2030, he did so in collaboration with oil lobbyists, who saw many of their demands included in the bill.’<\/p>\n