{"id":113608,"date":"2015-03-30T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/senate-oks-bennet-climate-bill\/"},"modified":"2015-03-30T17:31:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:31:25","slug":"senate-oks-bennet-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/senate-oks-bennet-climate-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate OKs Bennet climate bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13c45f90-4cfb-4f4d-88ca-29e0e45145e2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13c45f90-4cfb-4f4d-88ca-29e0e45145e2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13c45f90-4cfb-4f4d-88ca-29e0e45145e2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13c45f90-4cfb-4f4d-88ca-29e0e45145e2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"483\" height=\"763\" alt=\"Bennet\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Bennet<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., introduced legislation last week to make fighting climate change a higher priority. The Senate approved the amendment 53-47 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet is offering the amendment to the Senate\u2019s budget proposal along with three other Democratic senators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColorado can\u2019t wait any longer for Washington to address climate change,\u201d Bennet said in a news release Thursday afternoon. \u201cUnchecked carbon pollution represents a material threat to our state and its economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis amendment demonstrates that we\u2019re serious about combating climate change and will work to increase investments in clean energy, energy efficiency and reducing carbon pollution,\u201d Bennet said.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment would create a \u201cdeficit-neutral\u201d reserve fund for \u201cpromoting national security, economic growth and public health by addressing human-induced climate change through increased use of clean energy, energy efficiency and reductions in carbon pollution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats pushing climate change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13,25],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-113608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-u-s-sen-michael-bennet"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113608"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=113608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}