{"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

Source: WILL CALIFORNIA’S DIRTY OIL BUSINESS SOIL GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN’S CLIMATE LEGACY?\u00c2\u00a0 | Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. […]<\/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\/7414"}],"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=7414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7417,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions\/7417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}