{"id":4736,"date":"2015-01-21T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2015-01-21T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:45:19","slug":"obama-vows-to-fight-for-climate-policies-in-state-of-the-union-but-what-he-didnt-mention-was-just-as-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"Obama Vows To Fight For Climate Policies In State Of The Union But What He Didn\u2019t Mention Was Just As Telling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/01\/21\/obama-vows-fight-climate-policies-state-union-address-what-he-didn-t-mention-was-just-telling\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Vows To Fight For Climate Policies In State Of The Union But What He Didn\u2019t Mention Was Just As Telling<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>President Barack Obama could not have signaled more clearly in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@WhiteHouse\/president-obamas-state-of-the-union-address-remarks-as-prepared-for-delivery-55f9825449b2\" target=\"_blank\">2015 State of the Union address<\/a>\u00a0that he intends to fight for his legacy on climate change in the face of a hostile,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/01\/08\/3608427\/climate-denier-caucus-114th-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">anti-science\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">GOP<\/span>-led House and Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it was what the President didn\u2019t mention that could negate his climate legacy: free trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership that undermine local efforts to lower emissions, projects like Keystone\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XL<\/span>\u00a0that lock us into decades of continued dirty energy use, and the exporting of American-made coal, crude oil and natural gas to overseas markets.<\/p>\n<p>Which is not to say that every policy position Obama laid out regarding energy and the environment entirely matched his lofty rhetoric about climate\u00a0change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At this moment\u200a\u2014\u200awith a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy production\u200a\u2014\u200awe have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth. It\u2019s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next fifteen years, and for decades to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Obama went on to list a number of achievements made in growing domestic renewable energy capacity under his watch, he also continued to pay lip service to an \u201call of the above\u201d energy strategy\u2014a strategy scientists tell us we most definitely do not have 15 more years to continue subscribing\u00a0to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Vows To Fight For Climate Policies In State Of The Union But What He Didn\u2019t Mention Was Just As Telling President Barack Obama could not have signaled more clearly in his\u00a02015 State of the Union address\u00a0that he intends to fight for his legacy on climate change in the face of a hostile,\u00a0anti-science\u00a0GOP-led House and [&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":[4],"tags":[141,2812,1030,584,2811,2810],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-energy-strategy","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-obama","tag-sotu","tag-state-of-the-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","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=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}