{"id":7545,"date":"2018-10-30T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7545"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:00:53","slug":"big-oil-really-wants-to-kill-washingtons-green-new-deal-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7545","title":{"rendered":"Big Oil Really Wants to Kill Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Green New Deal | The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The best indication of the potency of I-1631 may be the fury with which Big Oil is attacking it. Petroleum companies have amassed a war chest of $28 million to defeat 1631\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe largest ever for a Washington ballot measure. With BP and Phillips 66 leading the way, 99.5 percent of the No campaign budget is from Big Oil, according to the Washington state public-disclosure commission. What\u2019s more, Big Oil\u2019s lavish spending against 1631 climbed steeply after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s recent report calling for urgent climate action. In other words, Big Oil\u2019s answer to the global alarm was to pour more fuel on the fire.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/washington-carbon-emissions-tax-initiative-1631\/\">Big Oil Really Wants to Kill Washington\u2019s Green New Deal | The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The best indication of the potency of I-1631 may be the fury with which Big Oil is attacking it. Petroleum companies have amassed a war chest of $28 million to defeat 1631\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe largest ever for a Washington ballot measure. With BP and Phillips 66 leading the way, 99.5 percent of the No campaign budget is [&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\/7545"}],"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=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7546,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions\/7546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}