{"id":647612,"date":"2010-01-29T10:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75153"},"modified":"2010-01-29T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:09:40","slug":"obama-pledges-emissions-cuts-for-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/647612","title":{"rendered":"Obama Pledges Emissions Cuts for Federal Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/01\/obama-announces-government-gre.html?hpid=topnews\">announced this morning<\/a> that the federal government would cut its emissions by 28 percent in 2020. It&#8217;s a small step compared to the nationwide carbon cap he hopes to institute &#8212; and which conservatives will battle tooth and nail &#8212; but it lends some quick credence to his renewed commitment to cleaner energy, as laid out in his State of the Union Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a  responsibility to American citizens to reduce our energy use and become  more efficient,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;Our goal is to lower costs,  reduce pollution, and shift Federal energy expenses away from oil and  towards local, clean energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That ought to shut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/29\/AR2010012901463.html\">bin Laden<\/a> up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama announced this morning that the federal government would cut its emissions by 28 percent in 2020. It&#8217;s a small step compared to the nationwide carbon cap he hopes to institute &#8212; and which conservatives will battle tooth and nail &#8212; but it lends some quick credence to his renewed commitment to cleaner energy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Itm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}