{"id":12124,"date":"2015-09-11T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12124"},"modified":"2015-09-11T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T11:53:07","slug":"oil-giants-crush-california-bill-aimed-at-reducing-gasoline-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12124","title":{"rendered":"Oil Giants Crush California Bill Aimed at Reducing Gasoline Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article_main_image\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/eartotheground\/item\/oil_giants_crush_california_bill_aimed_at_reducing_gasoline_use_20150910\" target=\"_blank\">Oil Giants Crush California Bill Aimed at Reducing Gasoline Use<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/images\/eartothegrounduploads\/4702198406_f6b74b75e2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article_main_imagecaptionsimple\" align=\"right\"><small><a title=\"Steve Snodgrass\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevensnodgrass\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Snodgrass<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a title=\"CC BY 2.0\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The oil industry has derailed an environmental bill in California designed to reduce gasoline use by up to 50 percent by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Guardian<\/b>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate president pro tempore Kevin de Leon announced on Wednesday that he would amend the bill, SB350, to drop the petroleum provisions. It will be changed in the assembly\u2019s natural resources committee as soon as Thursday to deal only with increasing the state\u2019s renewable electricity supply and boosting energy efficiency in buildings through retrofits and upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>With only two days left in the legislative session, \u201cwe could not cut through the million-dollar smokescreen created by a single special-interest with a singular motive and a bottomless war chest\u201d, he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Western States Petroleum Association \u2013 a trade organization representing petroleum companies including Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil, said in a statement that the fuel provisions were \u201carbitrary and infeasible\u201d, but with that portion of the bill deleted, \u201cwe can move forward and work together on other climate change efforts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>SB350 has been the focus of an intense media and lobbying campaign by petroleum interests in recent weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/sep\/10\/oil-industry-california-bill-gasoline-sb350\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil Giants Crush California Bill Aimed at Reducing Gasoline Use Steve Snodgrass\u00a0\/\u00a0CC BY 2.0 The oil industry has derailed an environmental bill in California designed to reduce gasoline use by up to 50 percent by 2030. The Guardian\u00a0reports: Senate president pro tempore Kevin de Leon announced on Wednesday that he would amend the bill, SB350, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[101,8913,3771,8915,8914,8738],"class_list":["post-12124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-california","tag-gas-use","tag-guardian","tag-kevin-de-leon","tag-oil-giants","tag-truthdig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}