{"id":8076,"date":"2009-05-26T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2009-05-26T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:49:05","slug":"proposed-climate-legislation-faces-criticism-from-environmentalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/05\/26\/proposed-climate-legislation-faces-criticism-from-environmentalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Climate Legislation Faces Criticism from Environmentalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052609\/2009_05_26_wysham.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052609\/2009_05_26_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/watersecretsblog.com\/archives\/Climate%20Change.jpg\" alt=\"climate change\" \/>Last Thursday a key committee in the House of Representatives approved sweeping legislation intended to address the gathering threat of global warming. Introduced by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, the American Climate and Energy Act of 2009 sets out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Central to obtaining the bill\u2019s emission standard, which is lower than what had been originally suggested, is the market based \u201ccap and trade\u201d approach. Through government \u201ccaps\u201d and industry \u201ctrades\u201d the legislation claims the system will spur the development of renewable energy sources while lowering emissions. However, many environmental groups, including Greenpeace, have criticized the cap and trade system as inefficient to deal with the problem of global warming and subsequently are not lending their support to the bill. Other criticisms by environmentalists include the proposed climate legislation\u2019s classification of \u201crenewable energy,\u2019 which labels solid waste incinerators as a \u201cwaste to energy\u201d project. The Breakthrough Institute, an Oakland-based think tank has suggested that the presence of such loopholes in the Waxman-Markey bill could actually lead to an increase in emissions by 2030. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Daphne Wysham, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday a key committee in the House of Representatives approved sweeping legislation intended to address the gathering threat of global warming. Introduced by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, the American Climate and Energy Act of 2009 sets out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}