{"id":7626,"date":"2018-11-07T19:32:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T02:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2018-11-07T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T02:32:55","slug":"up-against-big-oil-in-the-midterms-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7626","title":{"rendered":"Up Against Big Oil in the Midterms | The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Spending on the Washington initiative broke all records in the state. In Colorado activists were outspent 40-1.\u00c2\u00a0Every time you turned on the TV\u00c2\u00a0in those states, a commercial warned that these ballot measures would destroy the economy. There apparently wasn\u2019t enough airtime available to soak up all the money, so if you were driving the highways around Denver you\u2019d pass\u00c2\u00a0trucks towing billboards\u00c2\u00a0denouncing any effort to restrict fracking.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/07\/opinion\/climate-midterms-emissions-fossil-fuels.html\">Up Against Big Oil in the Midterms | The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;Spending on the Washington initiative broke all records in the state. In Colorado activists were outspent 40-1.\u00c2\u00a0Every time you turned on the TV\u00c2\u00a0in those states, a commercial warned that these ballot measures would destroy the economy. There apparently wasn\u2019t enough airtime available to soak up all the money, so if you were driving the highways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626"}],"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=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7627,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}