{"id":8311,"date":"2021-07-24T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2021-07-24T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:08:19","slug":"the-democrat-blocking-progressive-change-is-beholden-to-big-oil-surprised-alex-kotch-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=8311","title":{"rendered":"The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil. Surprised? | Alex Kotch | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;One prominent senator is very concerned about proposals to scale back oil, gas and coal usage. He recently argued that those who want to \u201cget rid of\u201d fossil fuels are wrong. Eliminating fossil fuels won\u2019t help fight global heating, he claimed, against all evidence. \u201cIf anything, it would be worse.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/20\/joe-manchin-big-oil-democratic-senator?fbclid=IwAR2hq00ZcI2x-TN1uP1tUcTpgA3h1qt3bqe08ltXLySMy7Y0Boi76XuuADI\">The Democrat blocking progressive change is beholden to big oil. Surprised? | Alex Kotch | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;One prominent senator is very concerned about proposals to scale back oil, gas and coal usage. He recently argued that those who want to \u201cget rid of\u201d fossil fuels are wrong. Eliminating fossil fuels won\u2019t help fight global heating, he claimed, against all evidence. \u201cIf anything, it would be worse.\u201d&#8217; Source: The Democrat blocking progressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311"}],"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=8311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}