{"id":974,"date":"2009-07-27T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.envirobeat.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2009-07-27T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T18:11:55","slug":"house-climate-bill-was-flooded-with-last-minute-changes-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"House climate bill was flooded with last-minute changes &#8211; LA Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Reporting from Washington &#8212; Less than 24 hours before the House approved its landmark energy and climate bill last month, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) got several paragraphs added to the 1,200-page measure &#8212; additions expected to be worth millions of dollars to companies that install solar panels.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The article mentions several of these amendments, which were added to consolidate crucial support for the bill:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;There were about 300 pages of last-minute amendments, many designed to make money for industries and constituencies important to fence-sitting lawmakers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-climate-fineprint20-2009jul20,0,5210778.story\">House climate bill was flooded with last-minute changes &#8211; Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Reporting from Washington &#8212; Less than 24 hours before the House approved its landmark energy and climate bill last month, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) got several paragraphs added to the 1,200-page measure &#8212; additions expected to be worth millions of dollars to companies that install solar panels.&#8217; The article mentions several of these amendments, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}