{"id":811,"date":"2005-02-25T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/02\/25\/the-political-climate\/"},"modified":"2005-02-25T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-25T17:42:00","slug":"the-political-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-political-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Climate…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Is heating up over the politics of climate, as many interested parties weigh in<\/a> on Dubya’s “Clear Skies” initiative. There’s been some debate on the Sustainable Blogosphere over this, including some who say that the proposed legislation isn’t all bad. On its face, I think there’s potential, and I like the “cap and trade” concept. But I place a lot of stock in Sen. Jim Jeffords’ characterization of Clear Skies as “…rife with loopholes for polluters and litigation…” From the Christian Science Monitor <\/em>via Alternet.<\/p>\n Technorati tags: Clear Skies<\/a>, politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is heating up over the politics of climate, as many interested parties weigh in on Dubya’s “Clear Skies” initiative. There’s been some debate on the Sustainable Blogosphere over this, including [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n